Author Archives: grayza

About grayza

This page is for me to keep links, photos, reminders, etc... I have no idea why anyone else would be interested in looking at it...

case study: CLANkidz 2011

Posted on August 13, 2011 by grayza

Back blogging after around a year break with a case study about how we did the visuals at CLANkidz this year.  The break was partly because of getting married and having little time do any VJing and certainly very little … Continue reading →

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case study: Michael Trotter gig

Posted on June 28, 2010 by grayza

26 June 2010 Elim Church Glasgow Michael Trotter, Scott Alexander & Band and Ranan This was a bit of a last minute call two days before the event, from someone I hadn’t worked with before with a musical style I … Continue reading →

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Summer time

Posted on April 19, 2010 by grayza

Working mainly in Glasgow, Scotland we have a lot of daylight in the summer months – not necessarily sunshine but daylight.  We also work mainly in traditional church buildings which tend to have been designed to let in as much … Continue reading →

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What is Visual Worship?

Posted on October 26, 2009 by grayza

I’ve finally put together some videos trying to demonstrate and explain what I do when mixing visuals.  I’ve previously defined what I mean by the term ‘Christian Visualist‘ which is wider than simply the video or other visuals behind or … Continue reading →

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Overhead Camera

Posted on October 19, 2009 by grayza

Here’s an unusual set up from our morning service yesterday. What you are looking at is a style of service we are working on a lot at the moment called ‘together’ which is designed no just to be ‘all-age’ to … Continue reading →

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Mixing during a sermon

Posted on October 3, 2009 by grayza

After a few months off over summer during which CLANkidz took up a lot of my time (planning, getting there and doing it, running into problems like trying to do visuals in a non-blacked out venue, and all the other … Continue reading →

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SMS text responses during event

Posted on August 1, 2009 by grayza

[OK, not really very much to do with visuals, but the use of technology in a Christian Children’s program] One of the new things we tried out at CLANkidz this year was the use of live txting to get feedback … Continue reading →

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Video for Magnification (imag or image mag)

Posted on July 27, 2009 by grayza

Big Christian events and churches often have a live camera feed to the screen to help people see the speaker.  The good reasons to do this is if the size or layout of the venue mean that many people can’t … Continue reading →

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Visuals in Children’s work

Posted on July 26, 2009 by grayza

Just got back from tech’ing for the children’s ministry at CLAN this year.  No time yet to write anything up, but here’s some relevant pics of setup at least… start of the week didn’t look good – no black out … Continue reading →

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Reviewing the past

Posted on July 14, 2009 by grayza

I’m very busy getting ready for a children’s event next week.  It is the children’s work at a large Christian Conference in Scotland which we’ve been involved with for the past four years.  The first year Jenny took a band … Continue reading →

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