Effective Church Communications

The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators. 

The Effective Church Communication ministry from Yvon Prehn provides inspiration, training, and resources to help your church create communications that fully fulfill the Great Commission. It focuses on Bible-based and timeless principles and strategies that work no matter what digital or print channel you use to create your communications. The site has links to many free TEMPLATES and other resources, plus links to free TRAINING VIDEOS, and a RESOURCE LIBRARY for church communicators.
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Yvon Prehn advice on how to shoot videos when you talk to the camera

31 October, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

Logitech C310 Webcam, used to create Yvon Prehn videos
This simple camera, the Logitech C310 Webcam, is what I used to create the video here and for my other speaking videos on this site.

Though the majority of teaching videos that I create both for this training site and my Sunday School class don't have me talking directly to the camera, I do some this way periodically for you to see that a real person is behind this ministry. This is part of my answer to how I create the videos. I have been asked by a number of Effective Church Communication readers how I do what I do, so here it is.

Before I get into specific advice, I feel like a disclaimer is necessary. The videos that I create when I'm talking to the camera are extremely simple ones. They suit my purposes and seem to help the audience I am trying to help—church communicators. There are many, many websites and how-tos online if you want to do more professional video shoots with multiple cameras, and advanced sound and lighting. Be prepared, however, because with the advice from these sites also comes greatly increased costs.

Many professional ministries have recording studios, use professional sound systems, microphones and multiple cameras.  I've been part of recordings like that when some other group had many thousands of dollars to spend and I've been involved in lengthy camera shoots. The complex videos then take weeks to months to edit and finish. All that is great, if that is your purpose.

For the videos that I do, I simply want to teach you something. I want to focus on my content and make the process to record it as professional as I can, but also as simple and low-cost as possible. With these limitations in mind, below is a short video that shows how I produce a video with me talking. After that  is more information on lighting and makeup.
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Filed Under: Video, how-to Tagged With: church video creation, talk to the camera, video creation, Yvon Prehn video advice

How Yvon Prehn creates teaching videos for Sunday School classes and this website

31 October, 2012 By Yvon Prehn 2 Comments

Video on how Yvon Prehn creates teaching videos
You can use the same process I use to create training videos for this site to create videos for your Sunday School classes.

I've been asked how I create the videos that I do for this site and the videos I create for my Sunday School website. To answer I created the following video. This video does not show you how to use all the programs and software I use to create the videos, but it does show the process from start to finish.

It is a very simple process anyone can do. It does not require expensive cameras or equipment. This is easiest way to do videos if your primary purpose is to simply teach something or get a message across.

Below the video, as a bonus for Effective Church Communication Members, are added notes about the process, each program illustrated, and how I use them.

For the companion video, Yvon Prehn advice on how to shoot videos when you talk to the camera, that goes along with this one, CLICK HERE.

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How to download a Free Image editing program, paint.net

22 October, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

How to download Paint.net
Paint.net is one of the best FREE image editing programs--here is how to download it.

This is one of my favorite image editing programs--much easier to use than Photoshop and best of all FREE! Even though it is very easy to use, it is extremely powerful and lots of fun to play around with. It doesn't get a lot of PR, (maybe because it is free), but it is a program that I think every church should have a copy of.

Below is the video on how to get it--here is a link to a series of videos I did that are on YouTube that show you how to use it: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6709E3C376551C36

On this video I demonstrate how to download it. The link for the download is: http://download.cnet.com/Paint-NET/3000-2192_4-10338146.html

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YouTube Playlists–videos organized by topic to help you learn

22 August, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

With over 130 videos created over 3 years time, it can be difficult to find videos on similar topics in church communications from Yvon Prehn's  Effective Church Communications YouTube channel. To help you focus on whatever it is that you want to learn, I have organized the videos into Playlists that group the similar videos together and that you can watch together.

Some of the current playlists are:

  • MS Publisher Uses, Examples, Templates & Tips

  • How to create websites with WordPress

  • FREE Clip art Image Resources--video reviews

  • How to write for the web

I will continue to organize the videos into topics, please SUBSCRIBE to the YouTube channel and that way you will know when new things are added.

Check out how the Playlists work here:

Videos organized by topic into Playlists at http://www.youtube.com/yvonprehn

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FREE, legal music tracks for your videos and podcasts

27 July, 2012 By Yvon Prehn Leave a Comment

ccmixterIt isn't easy finding truly FREE music  that is legal for your videos and podcasts. Though this site does not have a lot of specifically Christian music it does have many instrumentals that can be used in videos and podcasts. In addition, it is one of the most honest, easy-to-use, free music sites I've looked at.

Below is a short video that shows how easy it is to select, download and give proper credit to the songs you choose. This is the site I used for the music for the POWTOON video I created . I simply downloaded the music from ccmixter and imported it into the POWTOON file. I copied the attribution and put it in the YouTube video file and on my website. Super easy--I may try putting music on some more of my videos in the future.

Here is the site: http://dig.ccmixter.org/

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