It can be difficult to connect students in your ministry to each other, especially if they are different ages or do not live close to each other. Producing videos is not only an awesome and effective way of communicating with your students but can provide a unique opportunity to unify the students within your ministry.
Brendon Patubo a student at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo produced this video for one of their social events. Check it out!
Here’s what he said about the process:
There was a lot of coordination involved and required all participants to be timely and patient. Each 5×5 segment was produced by creating a plan on a word processing document that was then posted on a secret Facebook group. Each participant was asked to be attentive to this Facebook
group to get the latest instructions.
Each had to be timely in the filming of their own part and submitting it quickly so I could put it all together. We all learned how to be patient with one another as clips were submitted at various times (some later than others, past our scheduled deadlines) and patient as some clips often had to be redone due to incorrect timing or misread individualized instructions. In the end, we were able to craft a fun video illustrating the dedication of a small group of students in a way that helps to promote our ministry as down-to-earth and comfortable to be around.
If you have yet to set up a YouTube channel for your ministry, do it RIGHT NOW! More and more students are going to YouTube to discover and explore information. Think of it as the cool kid’s Google!
But before you do, be sure to create a separate gmail account for your ministry (ex: yourministry@gmail.com) so that you can link the YouTube channel to that address and not your personal email.
Otherwise personal videos will show up alongside ministry videos, which can be distracting for the person coming for one or the other.
Brian Barela is the Director of New Media at Campus Crusade for Christ. He blogs regularly about leadership, social media, and starting a ministry.
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