Church Production Magazine: At the start of 2020 most churches considered live streaming to be a useful but secondary aspect of ministry. With the advent of COVID-19 restrictions, however, streaming and VOD quickly became the safest way for church leaders to maintain connection with the larger congregation. Moving into the coming weeks and months, live streaming will continue to serve as a primary avenue for corporate worship, teaching, community, and vision casting.
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I feel like church should be an example of how streaming live consistently is possible for theater companies who are trying to pull together some form of content during COVID-19. At this current moment in time, live streaming is many Church’s way of disseminating sermons to their followers. I’m sure that the church will continue to carefully navigate the most responsible ways to begin reopening as soon as possible, but for this current moment live streaming worship, teaching, community, and vision casting is where it’s at. I think it’s super interesting that in this article they talk about choosing the right environment to live stream in and the impact that great or poor lighting can have on your audience. They also ask the reader to consider if the church that used to be where the community would gather is the appropriate place for church live streams. It feels like they have their things together better than most pivots that were required of people.
Although we all can agree that continuing to worship is an absolute necessity for a pandemic, we must acknowledge that a church physically getting together is not what we should be doing. That is why we need to adapt to an online church format which, from a lighting aspect, can be different. They do acknowledge what will work for lighting and how to achieve specific looks which is definitely accomplishing the primary goal of this article but, the pictures that they are showing have raised a lot of questions for me. For example, why has the church decided that it is safe for all of the worship team to sit so close to each other? They have an entire place of worship that they could spread out into yet they all have willingly chosen to be right up on top of each other. I do acknowledge that this is a great look and gives off a very friendly vibe but it does not give off the idea that the church believes that safety is their number one priority.
Streaming has been blowing up recently. With VODs like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez playing the video game “Among Us,” I would have never expected something like religion to take on its own form of streaming. Personally, I have been watching streams over the past few months as both a form of entertainment, as well as a way to stay connected. Although at first glance seeing that churches are live streaming their services shocked me because I really only use VOD sites for things like gaming, but the more I think about it, the more it makes sense. In my mind, I strictly imagine streaming as a platform for content creators in the esports realm but just as they have their own communities, so does religion. It is a safe way for people to stay in contact with not only themselves, but also their beliefs. If a church is unable to socially distance their services, I highly recommend streaming it.
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