A Story: The Road Home

A few weeks back our team produced another batch of stories at NewSpring Church. We like to share stories in our church to celebrate what God is doing and how he is changing lives, but they also act as fantastic vision pieces. There are few things that articulate the vision of our church better than a story of how God is working in someone’s life. Sidenote…if you’re planning on attending our Unleash Conference this year, one of the topics our team with be discussing at length in our breakout session is stories. We’ll be looking specifically at our process, methods’s and all the things we’ve found that do and do not work for us. 

Here is one of the stories we produced.

Shot on the Canon 5D MK II
Edited in Final Cut Pro
Colored using Da Vinci Resolve
Music produced by Listen Design Studio

A Story | Marked by Love

Our new series called  ”Stories” kicked off this past weekend at NewSpring. For the better part of the last 7 weeks I have been leading the effort on telling several stories of peoples lives in our church.  It’s been one of the most challenging and rewarding time periods that I can remember. We debuted 3 this past weekend and have 3 more slated for this upcoming weekend. 

The first one is called ‘Marked by Love’ and it’s the story of a girl named Jessie. For years she lived in fear, until one day she made the most unlikely decision of her life.

Shot on Canon 5D MK II and Canon 7D
Lenses: Canon 50 f/1.2L, Canon 100mm Macro f/2.8 IS, Canon 24-70 f/2.8L, Canon 70-200 f/2.8L IS
Edited in Final Cut Pro
Graded using After Effects

Produced by Adam Kring
Story by Nick Charalambous and Adam Kring
DP: Adam Kring
Additional Camera: Michael Jones, Nick Charalambous
Editor: Adam Kring
Coloring: Adam Kring
Location Sound: Darrin Dick

Promo: Israel Trips-Capharnaum

Shot on the Canon 5D MK II
Edited in Final Cut Pro
Colored in After Effects
Animations done in Cinema 4D by Michael Jones

Still Frame: Israel

I wrote in the last post, I’ve been pretty busy the last few months with various things. One of the those things was a trip I took to Israel.  Starting next year NewSpring Church is going to be leading trips to Israel. So this trip I was apart of was an initial scout trip of sorts. I went to shoot some promotional materials that we’re going to begin rolling out in the coming weeks.  Here’s a few frames stills from those.

Shot on the Canon 5D using a variety of lenses and the Technicolor color profile. 

A Story | Big Picture Faith

So, this past weekend we had the chance to debut not one but two new stories.  The process on not only telling Mandy’s story but also this one began about five weeks ago.  Crafting this particular story was a bit tricky.  It’s longer than we normally like to let our typical stories run, nearly ten minutes, but there was just no way to tell it in a ‘normal’ form factor.  We had a little less than two full days to shoot it.  It was out of the state.  Production was a whirlwind. But it’s an unbelievable story that I’m honored to be able to share with you. Credit list is below for what it took to make this project happen. 

Producer: Adam Kring
Story: Nick Charalambous, Adam Kring
Editor: Darrin Dick
Color: Adam Kring, Darrin Dick
Camera: Adam Kring, Darrin Dick
Audio Capture: Daniel Crowe

A few technical notes:
-Shot on Canon 5D MKII and Canon 7D
-Lenses: Canon 24-105 f/4L IS, 100mm f/2.8L IS Macro, 70-200 f/2.8L IS
-Edited in Final Cut Pro
-Color graded using After Effects