Kid’s Community – Volunteer Recruitment Video
When asked to do a recruiting video for Kid’s Community at church I wasn’t sure what I was getting myself into. Apparently demeaning myself further, as if that were possible…
It is though, as it turns out. The kids are cute at least. We had a great location to shoot, well lit, nice acoustics, great background elements, the works. Then a band started blasting at the restaurant next door and we were forced to head back to the toddler room, where we could still hear the band… but just barely.
The lighting and acoustics weren’t so great. Well, to be honest, they stank, but the background elements were still good.
The kids were pretty good to film with, though we made sure to get all their lines out of the way first so they could go play. Of course this video only served to make the other kids jealous and now I have ‘casting requests’ in for about 20 kids. Not sure how that will work out unless I need a band of roving, disillusioned munchkins looking for revenge or something along those lines.
Some of the questions, in case you couldn’t make them out:
Mason: “What is your favorite color?”
Sam: “Have you ever lied?”
Mason: “How many times have you lied?”
Abby: “Do you have any formal training in hermeneutics?”
Jack: “Would you consider yourself as a pre dispensationalist?”
Jack: “Can you give us a synopsis of David and Goliath story?”
Sam also corrects me by saying “David didn’t have a bow and arrow!” further displaying my ignorance and ineptitude to the world. As if my previous answers didn’t achieve this well enough. I debated putting subtitles in but we figured people would get it well enough without them. And if you didn’t, know you have.
Interesting fact: That giant jug of wine only costs like $12 at Safeway. The cheap price only understates the cheap taste.
Slightly less interesting fact: The tiny chair I sat in hugged my hips so badly I had to pop it off every time I stood up.
VASTLY less interesting fact: I didn’t mean to have my earbuds in there, makes me look like some cheap iTunes ad with my black shirt and all.
9:12 pm on February 12th, 2010
wow at first i was like hrm then i was like lol, seriously though the LOTR music and stuff had me laughing, nice work man
6:05 pm on February 17th, 2010
Yeah, enjoy it while it lasts. I have a feeling YouTube will bear the ax upon my soul for using that song before too long.
3:44 pm on March 28th, 2010
good work, it takes skill/patience to work with younger kids for things like this
3:56 pm on March 28th, 2010
Thanks! They were pretty great, we just made sure to do all of their shots right off the bat =)