For the past ten years, we've shown a video at our annual business meeting that takes a brief look at everything that has happened in the previous year. Here is the one I edited for this year. Although I have done more elaborate presentations in previous years, I had a week to get this one together, so I mainly just focused on making it fast and snappy. Our meeting is on Super Bowl Sunday, after all, and so I need to do my part to get people home in time for kickoff. Whether it is simple or spiced up this graphics and gimmicks, it is an effective way to fill everyone in on what various ministries have been up to.
This is the sort of video that needs to be kept in the back of your mind throughout the year. You'll want to grab a few shots of every church activity you can. Then keep the video handy, preferably on a hard, so it is ready to edit when the time comes.
But what is always a shortcoming of my review videos is the lack of content from ministries that don't have their own camcorder. It would be great to ask all the ministry leaders to hand over their own video and photos, but that has never worked. I wish I had a solution to offer, but after ten years I haven't come up with a foolproof way of getting every ministry properly represented in the review video. Anybody have ideas?
While I didn't have enough time to jazz up this last year-in-review video, in the past I have been able to make them fun. In this one for 2001 I created a narrative with sports commentators working a church service. No doubt there are many cleaver ways of presenting this parade of video clips.
Then keep this video handy. It's a great start on a general video promotion of your church for the website.
If you have made an annual review video, or have ideas for them, please pass them along below.
