video jockeys - beyond video technicians

[HelenaZF]

Although many of us are still in the charismatic dark ages when it comes to projection technology, (our church still uses an overhead with transparencies), most of us have at least heard of video technicians.



Video technicians pre-plan the visuals for the entire worship service, sometimes with a PowerPoint presentation, or sometimes even with video clips and customized images worked into the backgrounds of song lyrics. This can be done by standard video technology and someone who knows how to use a laptop computer.



But the new trend is to Video Jockeys...VJs. A VJ comes to the service with hundreds of video clips and a video mixer to fade in and out, vary speed and mash up and overlay multiple backdrops for songs during worship. He plays his instrument like any other musician, but what he produces is not sound....it is the perfect visual backdrop that can be adjusted instantly as the character of the praise and worship atmosphere progresses through the service. The VJ provides on-the-spot sensitivity in the visual accompaniment for worship.



You'll see VJs used in some of the bigger music tours this year: Integrity is one that will be doing this, and also Beth Moore and Chris Tomlin.



Anyone experienced this yet?