GT Church, a multi-site church with two locations in PA, currently serves its community through live worship services attended in person or streamed online on its website. Learn about dynamic worship from anywhere in our case study with GT Church.
Technical & Production Challenges
GT Church lacked the ability to provide its congregation with quality video coverage of its events. Old equipment, outdated capabilities, and siloed camera footage prevented the church from making dynamic, engaging, and artful online worship videos.
GT Church wanted to provide its community with compelling videos that featured the latest more dynamic production capabilities. This required upgrades to the church’s increasingly comprehensive streamlining of its operational processes and equipment – especially its burdensome and extensive cabling and bulky camera set-ups.
In addition to the physical upgrades of cameras and equipment, GT Church needed to ensure that the footage always maintained a consistent look and feel. This was a major challenge for the camera crew and production team as it required its current cameras – three Sony BRC300 cameras, one Canon C100 camera, and a Canon handheld camera – to have individual setups. Working with these cameras separately limited the scope and range of their events with disruptive transitions between cameras.
Also, GT Church needed these major upgrades in place before a rapidly approaching Christmas season.
Innovative Solutions Through High-Tech Equipment
GT Church contacted Adorama Business Solutions (ABS) and was immediately assigned to a dedicated account manager and member of the Adorama Technical Services team with industry expertise and product knowledge. Adorama addressed GT Church’s questions about the compatibility of tripods and lenses. Additionally, the ABS account manager leveraged a relationship with Canon and its industry experts.
By engaging with the GT Church team and asking the right questions, Adorama was able to determine the perfect camera set-ups for the church’s production staff. Wireless cameras with modern technologies gave the staff greater levels of flexibility. This enabled them to easily film anywhere in the congregation and film more discreetly and with enhanced freedom on stage.
Adorama also simplified the process of creating a unified look and coherent aesthetic throughout the footage by being able to save the settings from one camera to an SD card. This could then be easily copied to all other cameras on the system. For the GT Church production team, this was revolutionary. All of GT Church’s events could be shot using HD technologies that offered high-quality live streaming and more engaging recorded broadcasts. All just in time for the Christmas holiday season.
Equipment Included:
Canon EOS C300 Mark II Cinema Camcorder Body
Canon Cinema Zoom CNE30-300mm T2.95-3.7 L S (EF Mount) Lens
Cartoni Focus 18 Fluid Head System
GT Church completely upgraded its production equipment and processes, empowering its production team to deliver first-rate coverage and footage of events to its congregation—both in-person and online. Also, Canon was able to test out GT Church’s planned solution before shipping due to Adorama’s strong relationships with manufacturers. This saved valuable time and allowed GT Church to meet a tight deadline.
Ultimately, Adorama was able to help GT Church meet a tight deadline by pre-testing the solution before installation. This ensured that they got what they needed to create the high quality live productions GT Church was aiming for.
“Working with our dedicated account manager and Adorama support team, solving our challenges was a rewarding and smooth process. Adorama’s knowledge and experience helped identify and solve problems I wouldn’t have known about until the gear was delivered – which would have cost us valuable
time.When all the quotes were submitted, Adorama worked harder to get GT Church the best price possible on all the equipment. Throughout this whole project there was daily communication and a level of customer service from Adorama that I wasn’t getting from other vendors. This level of service has continued, which is why Adorama will always be the first place I go.”
— Andrew Donohue, Visual Producer
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