In this Church Production interview, our own Marcell Patillo talks with Scott Trapasso, a seasoned video producer with Media That Matters, and Luke Miller from Playback Media about the making of a new Mother's Day video for churches to use in their weekend services.
Mother’s Day is always the second Sunday in May and is a holiday that almost every church takes the time to recognize and celebrate. Besides a sermon on a related topic, some churches may have trouble figuring out how to make that Sunday different or how to drive home the message that moms are valued and appreciated. Playback Media, and their partner production company Media That Matters have created a new video for churches that might be just the answer for churches that lack the resources or bandwidth to make their own Mother’s Day video.
Playback Media is an online resource for everything a church might need to enhance productions and full pre-produced media like the new Mother’s Day video created in partnership with Media That Matters. Playback Media offers still and moving backgrounds for Pro Presenter or LED Walls, stock photography, as well as worship tracks accompanied by lyric videos and service countdowns. They also do movies and seasonal content for holidays.
In this Church Production interview, our own Marcell Patillo talks with Scott Trapasso, a seasoned video producer with Media That Matters, and Luke Miller from Playback Media. “We're creating now like 10 or 12 videos a year with Media that Matters,” Miller explains. We're hitting all of the major, moments when churches really want to up production levels. There's a lot of churches that use video every single week. There's a lot of churches that use it occasionally. There’s even more that use it seasonally who are always going to have something at Christmas, Easter, and Mother's Day, even if they don't have something at another time. We want to make sure that we're providing resources for those moments to help churches take those services up to the next level.”
Speaking about the new Mother’s Day piece Trapasso says, “I think really at the heart of it, it came together really, really quickly. But the idea was a piece that was moms speaking to other moms. There's such a disconnect sometimes when you see pieces for mothers that are not by moms for moms. I just feel like there's an authenticity – a genuine buy-in when it's actually speaking to people that you can relate to.”
Patillo’s interview digs into how the two company’s partnership came to be and some technical insight into how the new Mother’s Day video was created and what played into those creative decisions. Patillo says talking with them inspired him to think a little deeper about projects he’s working on.