Worship Arts April May June 2022

If you are live in-person and live streaming, do you have more than one visual focal point? Tell us about your experience.

We have a fairly large “stage” area three steps up from the congregation. The projection area is above the musicians to the left side of the stage. The altar is in the center of the stage as are our big visuals. A large stained glass “window” hangs above the right side of the stage. Karen Booth We’ve added cameras. Ini tially we had a single camera fixed in the balcony. We now have two other cameras. All can now pivot allowing multiple changes of view during the service. Lake Harbor UMC Norton Shores, MI

The company that installed our streaming equipment set up several different shots for our streaming operator. Over time, we learned how to make more of our own, and which ones didn’t work as well as others. There are basically five different shots : one for altar, one for choir, one for pulpit, one for lec tern, and one farther-back shot that captures the praise team. There are three cam eras.

We have multiple cameras (cell phones and tablets) and we use a switcher for live stream im ages; unfortunately, it has taken staff to operate as lay members are uneasy about learning the technology.

Jim Sheldrake St. Peter’s UMC Wellington, FL

We installed several cameras to give us different angles when recording our services so we could focus attention on differ ent groups more adequately. C. Christian (Chris) Dederer Christ UMC Greensboro, NC

Mary Jane Crail Clear Lake UMC Clear Lake, IA

Lots of camera angles, but only one altar display. Lots of variety in the background images, but always related to the seasonal or weekly theme. Mary Scifres Santa Clarita UMC

ToddWilson Germantown UMC Germantown, TN

“ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ April-May-June 2022 • WorshipArts • umfellowship.org 11 How has your creation of visual art in worship changed since the pandemic began? We are much more conscious of representing the sermon content rather than just having something nice to look at. Lauri Nair Shenendehowa UMC Clifton Park, NY Not much for the services I participate in. During the time we spent making recordings we intentionally avoided the Hollywood Squares videos and used images that captured the texts of the music. More of a mood maker than a highlighting of the participants. ToddWilson Germantown UMC Germantown, TN