Part of my role in ministry involves the creation of video teaching resources for K-5th grade and 3-5 year olds. Every month, we create an average of 80 minutes of finished video for these age groups. The more video I create, the more I realize that video is one of the best methods to communicate powerful messages with consistency and quality. Part of our teaching videos with K-5th involves a creative, story-driven element. We've had a boy band, a lost medieval paige, restaurant critics, and a Cereal superhero come to life on the big screen. Our kids go crazy for these characters and become markedly more interested in what we are teaching from God's Word. It's a big win for us. But through the process of brainstorming, creating, casting, writing, producing, shooting, and editing hours of video I realized that these characters are all just really simple ideas that connect to our audience. Read more...

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