NPCC Production Updates
North Point Online
Starting on the February 28 Sunday, we will start broadcasting the North Point Online services from North Point. The plan is to broadcast the 11 a.m. East auditorium service live on the internet and then rebroadcast that service again on 6p.m. For those of you that are not familiar with the NP Online services, it’s not just a internet transmission of the service. They’ve built a very interactive experience around the service in order to really target the unchurched and also help facilitate dialogue and online participation. Collide magazine did an article about NPOnline recently. For those that are interested, you can read it here: http://www.collidemagazine.com/article/284/north-point-starts-streaming.
The online services won’t have a huge technical impact on most of our positions on Sunday morning. And, aside from adding a bigger audience to the 11 a.m. service, it will be pretty much business as usual for us as a team. To view the stream see this page: http://www.northpointonline.tv.
Production Game/Movie Night!
Hey Volunteers!
Here are a few details about Thursday:
Because of limited game access, this event is for you and your spouse or a date only. The doors open at 6pm. We will provide pizza for dinner, as well as popcorn and snacks during the games and movie. For the movie, we’ve picked Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on Blu-Ray. Reviews say the movie is hilarious even for us adults, and is going to look and sound amazing in the East. The games start at 6pm in the West, and we will start playing the movie in the East at 7:30pm. We will have Mario Cart for the Wii going on each Side Screen, and Rock Band on the HD Screen running through the West PA! It’s time to get your rock on!
See you on Thursday!
December 20 Opener
How to describe Christmas Service this year? I’m not sure I can but to say the NP production team knocked it out of the park! To all the volunteers who extended above and beyond with their time, talents and attitudes - THANK YOU!! The video clip of our opening song is just one shining example of how amazing you guys are!
For those who missed it, the Christmas service opener this year combined all 4 stages (@ 3 different campuses) playing together live as they traded verses from “12 Days of Christmas.” It was awesome. North Point East started with a 12 person choir singing a cappella. They were soon interrupted by Buckhead sporting Reliant K’s rock version of the tune. When Browns Bridge & North Point West followed suit shortly after, North Point East was able to maintain their enthusiastic foothold on “Five Golden Rings!” Technically the feat was pretty straight forward. Each auditorium cut their own cameras, added their own bug and delivered the feed to a multi-campus switcher that cut between each room. For audio, each venue mixed between their own band and a direct, stereo, mix minus coming from the each of the other locations. The bigger challenge was coordinating people, gear & information. Just for fun, here’s some multi-campus stats on the overall production:
(46) Video Positions
(16) Audio Positions
(14) Lighting & Stage Positions
(840) Production volunteer man hours
(23) Cameras
(4) Multi-Bus Switchers
(222) Audio Console Channels
(30) In-Ear Mixes
(500+) Lighting Cues
(75) pounds of snow confetti
(8) Fiber based SDI circuits with negligible delay (42ms)
(64) cross-campus, embedded audio channels
& (1) Master Click Track…IN A PEAR TREE!!
Enjoy…
Christmas 09 – Velma’s Diner “The Street”
We set out to create the feel of a small town on stage. The video drama: Velma’s diner was the central creative element of the series. We built the stage to mimic the type of small town feel that you might find the diner located in.
How we did it:
We had the problem of knowing that we couldn’t build this set from scratch in a single week’s time. We set out two weeks prior to the install week, to build the structural backbone for the set. The biggest obstacle was that it had to be planned and built modularly to fit through the stage doors. The entire set was actually built as 39 different flats, structured out of 2×4s.
We then brought in and put together these flats during the install week to create the structural backbone for the set. We used textured vac-u-form 4’x8’ sheets of bricks and stone which we cut to size and molded to the flats, tacking them in place to create the surfaces for each of the buildings. The vac-u-form was then finish painted to give texture to the actual buildings. We also sprayed a base coat of paint on all the vac-u-form sheets in the weeks prior to the set install. While the buildings were being finish painted other finishing touches like the awnings, molding, shutters, benches, tiles, and lights were being added to the set.
Special thanks to all the guys who worked so hard to make this set happen.
Stats (Approximated):
Man Hours: 1200 hrs for the install alone, 400 pre-build hrs
2×4’s: 3 pallets (Over 1,000 boards)
Nails: 6,500
Brad Nails & Staples: 10,000
Compressors: 3
Sheets of Luan: 200
Sheets of Vac-u-form: 166
Gallons of paint: 12
Scissor Lifts: 3
Welcome!
It’s probably been a while since you visited the North Point production website. And if that’s the case, I don’t hold it against you. We’ve been on hiatus over the past number of months to work on how we can best use this medium to serve you. Our goal going forward is to create a primary resource that represents and equips the best production volunteers I know! Not only will you have access to current media, training materials and system stats, we will also strive to post regular updates on relevant, and hopefully, interesting production topics. Along side the website, we have also established a NP production team presence in social outlets such as Facebook & Twitter. Here you can connect with other teamates and expect to see notifications that will often link you back to our website for the latest information.
I hope you like what you see. Enjoy!
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