24 February 2009

Participants: Video production a better way to reach people

The church in West Indonesia (WIUM) aims to cope with the modern trend of communicating the gospel to its constituents. It wants to employ a better way to reach this land of diverse people that makes Indonesia a predominant Moslem land.

Video messages, complemented by electronic media can fulfill this mandate. And on February 24-26, the communication leaders together with lay enthusiasts within WIUM organized a workshop to learn the specifics of video production and electronic publication.

Held at the WIUM headquarters, 40 participants learned ‘videography’ and web-making under Welsie dela Cruz, media center director for the church headquarters in the southern Asia-Pacific region (SSD); Rhoen P Catolico, assistant program director for Adventist World Radio-Asia/Pacific; and Dr Jonathan Catolico, SSD communication director.

During the video production workshop, the participants went into actual production: scriptwriting, set designing, shooting, and other activities to complete three four-minute episodes. Web programs, news and feature writing, were also introduced to the participants.

“We are glad for these enriched skills of video production and electronic publications. These will help us produce good videos in order to reach our neighbors who will not get interested receiving the gospel message other than this method,” said participants. [AND Staff]