Articles on Church Media, Live Production Teams, Content Creation and more.
Although Sunday mornings are focused on worship and not just to entertain, there are still valuable lessons we can learn from the professional theatre world. 1. Preparation Preparing for a production, directors, actors, and designers will spend months scrutinizing every decision that is made to maximize the impact the play... read more
Serving in media leadership roles at two large churches, I’ve made tons of mistakes. And I’ve learned quite a bit in the process. One of the key things I’ve learned is that I can’t do it all. I learned the hard way that as our production teams grew in number... read more
Last week I had the privilege of attending a church denominational convention with church leaders and representatives from several hundred churches. I also had a great time teaching a workshop and working with several other churches in the area I was in. Most of these churches had an average weekly... read more
Transitions are one of the most under-planned and over looked pieces of worship services. What is a transition in your worship service? A transition is how one element of your worship service flows into the next. For example, how does your countdown flow into your first song? How does each... read more
Community is what people want. They want to be a part of a culture of people that know them and care about them. A place where everyone knows their name (thank you “Cheers”). Within your Production Team, it’s your job to create the culture you want. Your volunteers should not... read more
Your Sunday worship service is the hub for other activities at your church. It’s the main event. It’s the gathering for your entire church. It would make sense that you would want to pour the most time, energy and money into creating this experience. It’s also the event you should... read more
This week I’m going to feature some projects we’ve produced for LifeWay Christian Stores, Creative Church Staffing, Luther Rice College and Seminary, Seeds Family Worship, FamilyLife and more. Let us know what you like! Feel free to share these videos online, comment below, or e-mail us (info@twelvethirtymedia.com) with any suggestions... read more
If you’re like me, you love gadgets. One of my favorite television shows as a kid in the 80s was “MacGyver”. He could whip up a gadget out of bubblegum and a paperclip. He was The Man. Other TV action shows used guns and weapons of different kinds. MacGyver though,... read more
This week I’m going to feature a diverse selection of Custom Media Content we’ve produced for Student Conferences, a College and Seminary, and a church branding project. Let us know what you like! Feel free to share these videos online, comment below, or e-mail us (info@twelvethirtymedia.com) with any suggestions or... read more
After someone shows interest in serving on your production team, whether through an Opportunities Tour or another avenue, you’ll want to provide an opportunity where they can have a sneak peek into your team to see if it’s an area they really are interested in. At Newspring, we called this... read more
It’s hours before Christmas morning or minutes after a child’s birthday party and daddies everywhere are stepping over millions of parts to look in the box for the infamous instruction manual. Instruction manuals either make us men look really smart or incredibly dumb, especially when we are seeking to put... read more
We’ve had several requests over the last several months to post some of our most recent work to our blog. Check out our first Custom Media Roundup post here. We’ll post about 5 of our latest custom projects on each post and give you who we produced the project for... read more