Tutorial: Video Tips for Pastors

A quick overview.

1. What are you doing?

  • Remember that the media and the message cannot be separated.
  • Consider the opportunities of livestreaming vs prerecorded.
  • Have a “live attitude”

2. Audio

  • Audio quality is your most important technical consideration.
  • Rode Lav Amazon link
  • Rode extension cable Amazon link
  • Pop Voice Lav mic Amazon link
  • If your mic is close, you don’t need to yell

3. Image

  • Light up your face
  • The action (face) should be above the midline
  • Look at the camera

4. Editing

5. Platform

6. Different “places” for different things

Pastor Bryan Wolfmueller
Bryan Wolfmueller, pastor of St Paul and Jesus Deaf Lutheran Churches in Austin, TX, author of "A Martyr's Faith for a Faithless World", "Has American Christianity Failed?", co-host of Table Talk Radio, teacher of Grappling with the Text, and theological adventure traveler.