Video Projects
Social Media Connection, Pt 5, – YouTube
October 19, 2011 | 
Author Social media platforms can help you build a loyal list of followers, as well as generate new visitors, volunteers and donation prospects if used correctly.
Today we’ll take a look at YouTube – A video-sharing site originally created by three former PayPal employees. A couple of years ago YouTube was brought up by Google, and now enjoys a top ten position in the video sharing niche.
At present there are over 300 video sharing sites on the Internet. For a comprehensive list go to: http://www.reelseo.com/list-video-sharing-websites/
As one of the leaders in the video industry, YouTube is probably the best known of the major video distribution channels. For traffic building to your site, Youtube is on top, just because it’s owned by Google – the top search engine, percentage wise anyway. However it’s not a good reason to just use them exclusively, you should also use more than one video site for more exposure.
So what’s the number one rule for top views of your video? Read the rest of this entry »
HMM Producing new Raising Truly Great Kids DVD Study for Family Matters
The Harvest Media team was in Dallas, Texas over the weekend capturing the Raising Truly Great Kids conference for Family Matters, a non-profit ministry whose goal is to see families transformed by God’s grace into instruments of restoration and reformation by equipping families for every age and stage of life. Dr. Tim Kimmel teaches this humorous and informative conference, providing a grace-based, character-
driven model to nurture confident and cooperative kids.
We captured the live event with four cameras and will be putting together the new DVD study over the next couple of months. We had a great time working with the media team at Chase Oaks Church and enjoyed using their outstanding facility. Their team was super accommodating and easy to work with.
You can check out this promo for the Raising Truly Great Conference to learn more:
Into My Arms – A Harvest Media Video Production for Restoring The Heart Ministries
Over the last several months, I’ve been working on a project called ‘Into My Arms’ for Restoring the Heart Ministries. ‘Into My Arms’ is a 10 part counseling series accompanied by a curriculum, targeted at counseling professionals and lay people to help them lead women through the forgiveness journey after an abortion. Throughout this production, many women discuss the trauma they have gone through due to an abortion experience.
Something I learned while producing this series is the fact that a large percentage of women who know that abortion is wrong, have one anyway. Some of those women never wanted to have an abortion in the first place, but were coerced into having one. Unfortunately it’s very common for a boyfriend or husband to coerce their girlfriend or wife into having an abortion, threatening them that they’ll leave if they don’t have one.
What’s even more unfortunate is the fact that many of these women, who very much want to keep their baby, end up having an abortion, only to find that their significant other ends up leaving them anyway. Other women have abortions, thinking nothing of it. Sometime later when they realize what they have done, they have a hard time forgiving themselves, and they don’t believe that God will forgive them.
This series is meant to help them realize that God has already forgiven them, and that they can experience freedom again. Read the rest of this entry »
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Photos of the Women of Simplicity filming
Click here to see photos of the Cynthia Heald Women of Simplicity filming.
Harvest Media has partnering with Cynthia Heald and Navpress to produce the new Becoming a Woman of Simplicity DVD study series. We are filming the study with a small group of women in a beautiful home in the foothills of Tucson.
We are filming in April and editing over the next couple of months. We are looking forward to seeing this exciting project impact women around the world.
Exus
Exus is a spiritual formation program that challenges Christian young men and women using intentional discipleship, extreme adventures, and community living.
Exus is located in the Sierra Madre mountains in Chihuahua, Mexico. Harvest Media is producing a promotional video for Exus.
Gary and Rich spent a few days in the mountains in Chihuahua, filming the Exus program in November.
Pictures of the Seed Company Peru Shoot!
Check out the pictures from our filming in Peru for the Seed Company project, Click here.
The Seed Company project is finally in production. Seed Company, an affiliate of Wycliffe Bible Translators, has asked Harvest Media to develop a donor video targeting donors to whom social justice issues are important. This video will highlight the social transformational power of the Word of God once translated into the heart language of a people.
We also had trips to Ghana and Texas for filming, highlighting two people groups who have experienced significant social and economic transformation as a result of Bible Translation:
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Cynthia Heald – Women of Simplicity DVD Study
With personal warmth and solid biblical teaching, author and speaker Cynthia Heald helps equip women for their personal and spiritual journey as she invites them to consider that the goal — the heart of God and a heart for God — is well worth the investment of thought and time.
Her bestselling “Becoming a Woman of…” Bible study series explores God’s idea of:
- Excellence
- Freedom
- Purpose
- Prayer
- Grace
- Faith
- Simplicity
- and Love.
Etnopedia
Etnopedia is an editable website for an international community to translate ethnic people profiles into other languages.
Its purpose is to inform Evangelical/Protestant Christians taking the Gospel of Christ to unreached peoples. Etnopedia has finished over 2,500 ethnic people profiles in other languages.
Etnopedia hopes to build a large body of editors and researchers to improve the research process while translating unreached people profiles into as many other languages as possible.
Etnopedia has asked Harvest Media to help them develop a recruitment tool to mobilize more translators from around the world to get involved. They also want a short promotional video to inform the missions community about their service.
Global Media Outreach
Global Media Outreach is a ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International formed to present the good news of Jesus Christ over the Internet. Every day, thousands of people come to one of their websites. Many are searching for God; some have specific questions; others just want to know more.
They present the gospel in over 100 languages. In many languages, they have volunteer responders available for those who e-mail them. GMO’s goal is to help those who contact them find Christ and then to help them grow in their Christian faith and become connected to a local church.
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