Upward Halftime Videos

Lately, I have been working on some videos for Pastor Joe Schafer for Upward Basketball. This is has been for the halftime shows. This year, the theme was based on the Fruits of the Spirit. The video below is dealing with the fruit "Peace". Take a look

Re Edited for The 12 Disciples

Trying new software, I did my re-edit in Pinnacle Editing Software. Check out the outcome!

Home Sick Really isn't That Fun

Today on Veterans Day, I am home sick with a fever. That gives me a chance to do a couple of things that I really need to do before the next couple of weekends.

1. 12 Disciples Video for Joe. Here's how the first try came out, so I'm redoing it.


2. Look up lights for 2Twenty. Any suggestions, let me know!!!!

The Continuation of Short Film Writting

It is October 2, 2010 at 9pm as I am writing this post. This weekend is North Allegheny's homecoming weekend/dance. Take a look at his pic from last year.

Yeah...good times. I was suppose to go this year again, but some rather personal things came up, and I decided not to go....yea I made a terrible mistake. I should have gone. As I was thinking about weather to go tonight or not last weekend during church, Pastor Jeff mention in his sermon "Focus your thought more inward to the future." Then I decided not to go...bad mistake. So I figured, what the heck, I could be doing a lot of better things on a Saturday Night. So far the only better thing I did was go to Crosstown...even if I wanted to go to both Crosstown and the Dance, I could've made both, since Crosstown is over at 7:15 and the dance was at 8:00. But this morning I got a chance to write more of my short film script. Check out the last scene I typed below.

SCENE 3—ALLISON PARK CHURCH OFFICES

(Scene starts with Ben walking down the hall by the kitchen and is pulled into the office kitchen by JoLyn, Matt, Sarah Mazza, Sage, and Garret all at the same time)

Ben – Woah! What’s going on?

Garret – Reaching out to the new girl I see? Good for you man

Ben – Uhh…thanks?

Matt – Sooo….

Ben – So what?

JoLyn – How did it go yesterday? I saw you’re montage from my car.

Ben – You were following us?

Sarah Ma – We all were. I was in my car, Garret and Matt rode together, and even Sage was in on this! He walked though

Ben – Yea I saw him. Sage why did you do that?

Sage – Dude, anything for overtime pay. Plus I always like seeing my friends reaching out to them.

Ben – Well for all your information, we had a good time.

Garret – Yea but now it’s time for the next step. Inviting her to church.

Ben – Dude we all just met her yesterday. You think she’s ready for that already?

Sage – Sure. You sometimes never realize someone is ready for something new.

JoLyn – I think for once Sage is right!

Ben – Alright I’ll give it a try.

(Ben walks out of the kitchen heading toward Sarah Mc’s cubical, everyone else just pokes their heads out of the kitchen door)

Sarah Mc – Oh hey Ben! I had a really good time yesterday.

Ben – Hey me to. And I just realized it’s Friday. Do you have any plans for Sunday morning?

Sarah Mc – Well I was going to sleep in and watch random videos on YouTube all day, but no why?

Ben – Well I was planning on going to my church this Sunday. Would you be interested in coming with me?

Sarah Mc – Well…I don’t know. What if people are doing weird things during that?

Ben – They won’t. And I’ll be there the whole time. So you want to come?

Sarah Mc - ...Sure. Why not.

Ben – Okay I’ll pick you up around 8:30?

Sarah Mc – Okay sweet.

(Ben looks back at every one and gives them a thumbs up. Everyone starts silently cheering and getting excited.)

Crosstown Video...Armor of God

Today I took the chance to work on another video for Pastor Joe Schafer for Crosstown. Their next series coming up September 2010 is on the Armor of God. Here's how the video came out.

Kidz Kaboom Countdown Video

Kidz Kaboom 2010 Countdown from Mike Fowler on Vimeo.

A Huge Success!!!

As you can tell by this weeks APC Minute, Kidz Kaboom was a huge success. We had over 300 Kids on the Campus over the week and over 1oo youth and adult volunteers this week. I had the chance to work with some amazing people along with my producer Brian Lippert. He is an amazing man of God and loves doing what he does. I love him with a passion and he will continue to do great things. But every year we do something called a penny weigh. If the Girls win, Joe Schafer gets a pie in his face. If the boys win, his wife Rachael gets a pie in the face. Here was the out come.

It Finally Happens this Week!

Finally! One of my favorite productions of the year here at Allison Park Church is happening this week. That one is also known as Kidz Kaboom. Close or over 400 elementary and pre-school kids will be on the APC Campus during the week, and over 100 teen helpers will be on site to assist them. What happens during Kidz Kaboom is in the morning there are camps that the kids attend (art, basketball, martial arts, cooking, dance, cheerleading, and obviously the pre-school camp for the pre-schoolers). Then in the afternoon, there is a high energy service that takes place featuring worship, games, story, scripture memorization, multi-media, and soooooo...much more! That's where tech ministries comes into play. In order to make it high energy, we want to bring in equipment that will make the service (rally) look both good, inspirational, and freakin awesome all at the same time. Sunday afternoon till the wee hours of Monday morning (if it takes us till 2am, we'll be there) is the set up in the sanctuary. I will try to update from there at some point with some pics of what's happening so far.

Another Crosstown Worship Song---Take it All

Today, I began again to start the Crosstown Worship Songs. By re-editing them and such in Sony Vegas. Take at look at Take it All by Hillsong Kids

Take it All from Mike Fowler on Vimeo.

Working on Tech Sheet for Kidz Kaboom

Normally for our Kidz Kaboom outreach (which you can register for by clicking here), the tech sheet we use is a little confusing to follow. Simple, but confusing. That's why this year I am going to see if we can try something new. For our normal APC Services, we use a site called Planning Center
To make our tech sheet. That's one way I'm going to try and do it this year, or we'll try and doing it the 2Twenty Style way in Microsoft Word. So I'm looking for opinions. If you know about planning center and Microsoft word, which would you choose? Looking for feed back. Thanks!!

Kidz Kaboom 2010 Production

Okay, one of my ALL TIME favorite events at Allison Park Church is Kidz Kaboom. Over 400 Kids will be taking part in High Energy Rallies, Miscellaneous camps, games, worship, and more. And over 60 Middle School and High School students will be on campus at APC to make sure this happens in an orderly fashion. Where I come into this is that once again, I will be in the Tech booth running lights again. Most likely I will be using, yet again, the DMX Operator 192 (Two of them) for Intelligent lights. Then two or three other boards after that. I can't wait for this event. I you are interested in signing up for this even if you're a middle school or high school student, Click Here.

Re-Doing Crosstown Worship Songs

Over the next couple of weeks, I will be re doing the Crosstown Worship Songs. Here's how the first one I did came out. The Song is "Get Up and Dance".

Great TIme at Upward Awards

Last night was a blast at Upward Awards Night. I got the chance to once again work with Inteligent Lights with the Elation Operator 192 board once again. Not only that, I had to do video switch, and I got to take home a 2-litter thing of Coca-Cola (I seriously needed it after this past week starting day lights saving time.) But I got the chance to work with 4 other amazing people who without them, the night would not have happen. So special thanks to Gregg Jacobs, Brian Russel, Nick Karis, and Andy Eble. Joe Schafer did an awesome job also making the night happen.

What Happens at Upward Awards Night

Well honestly, I don't know what happens at Upward Awards Night. Except, well there's awards. I should get a better Idea of what happens. All I know of is that there's pics that are playing during pre-service, there's live cam involved, a guy by the name of Nel Creman will be there, and I am one of only 3 people who will be in the Tech booth. The two other people I will be working with are Andy Eble and Pastor Gregg Jacobs (I posted about him a couple of weeks ago.) Okay, off topic now, I thought I'd share last weeks APC Minute. It has some Winter Retreat testimonies. Check it out.

Upwards Award Night

I will continue to post about this for the next week or so, but my next big production is Upward Awards night.

For those of you who don't know what Upward is, it's a Christian basketball league that Allison Park Church holds that involves APC and other surrounding church's like Orchard Hill Church, North Hills Christian Community and more. I got placed in helping with the tech production with that which includes Projectors, Lights, Live Cam, and output switching. I'll be working with Gregg Jacobs and hopefully 1 other person. This should be one of those easy productions that APC has.

Crosstown Genesis 1:1 Song

Joe Schafer Who is the Childrens Pastor at Allison Park Church had me make the Music Video for the Next Series which is The Creation Story (Genesis Chapter 1). This is what I have in the Video so fat...enjoy!