What have the technology team been up to in the last week?
Easter
Pretty much the entire week has been taken up with supporting our Easter worship, in a mix of live-streamed and pre-recorded services.
More interestingly, these services have included some new tricks:
Pre-recorded content
We’ve mixed pre-recorded content into a live stream before, but this week we saw the inclusion of pre-recorded content which was also watchable by people in the church via a temporary video screen. Although we don’t have any plans to do this kind of thing in future once we return to in-person worship, it’s been useful to prove we can use more flexible video paths.
‘Roving’ cameras
To add a bit of variation to the week, we made use of a portable camera rig to include a moving camera both inside and outside the building.
This suffered a few quality glitches we weren’t entirely happy about, but nonetheless added a new, more inclusive angle on what was happening, particularly the parts of services that would traditionally be a procession like Palm Sunday.
Fixing the phones
We were made aware of an outage to our Dial-A-Service phone system, which we investigated and fixed.