![]() The city skyline, buildings and sunset are from Charleston South Carolina Stone statue of Mother Mary is from the front entrance to Saint Patrick's church (photos by Chuck Scott) were photographed around Ridgefield Connecticut by Chuck Scott in 2006 The holiday wreaths on fences, manger ( Saint Elizabeth Seton), Christmas ornaments, etc. The herons were photographed in Westport Connecticut (near Long Shore) and the butterflies were photographed at the Bronx Zoo in New York (photos by Chuck Scott) The various purple and white flowers were photographed in the John Soluri Open Space Nature Preserve in Ridgefield Connecticut as were the owl, path in the woods, ferns and other flowers shown in this mystery (photos by Chuck Scott) Graphics: The roses used in the opening Rosary titles were photographed July 2004 at the Beardsley Zoo in Bridgeport Connecticut The purple flowers used as the Joyful Mystery title were photographed in Ridgefield (photos by Chuck Scott) The Fruit of This Mystery is Joy In Finding JesusĪudio: Birds chirping recorded during a sunrise in Ridgefield Connecticut by Chuck Scott Immaculate Mary vocals and guitar by Katie Scott Crickets recorded by Chuck Scott in Ridgefield Connecticut The Finding of The Child Jesus In The Temple The Presentation of The Baby Jesus In The Temple The Fruit of This Mystery is Love of Neighbor The Joyful Mysteries The Joyful Mysteries Sections: I mentioned that the audio was an issue - this was unforeseen in that the beads hitting the pews created huge audio spikes that had to be edited out and tamed otherwise the crystal clear audio captured would have been unpleasant to listen to. All of which are combined and interspersed with shots of the congregation, so the video pulls one through the Prayer without being in your face, yet also subtly reinforces the themes each of the Mysteries portrays. So in the case of the Sorrowful Mysteries, I used images from Native American burial sites, real slave cabins from a South Carolina plantation, Hawaiian burial grounds, various New England cemeteries, plus sprinkled in audio effects like rain, thunder, lightening, running water, etc. ![]() Ultimately, the visual answers came from my extensive image library. Some of these sections were seemingly easier to visually score than others - e.g., how to show The Sorrowful Mysteries without defaulting to Gothic or traditional heavy imagery? Jesus dying on the Cross is not a pleasant sight or thought yet in this video, my job was to make it at least compelling enough to pull someone through the entire piece yet also be prayer-like, so using fast edit cuts like an MTV show (or other current TV shows like CSI) was out of the question. The Rosary has four sections - The Joyful, The Sorrowful, The Glorious and The Luminous - each of which has five sub-sections, and many sections that repeat (e.g., the Hail Mary 10x). Some of those really nice sunset pictures and other gentle ambient pics along with the congregation?"Īnd there-in started my extended creative journey and back to the edit bay. So, is there any way we could apply the screen-saver approach and show my people at prayer mixed in with the spirit of the Rosary? You, know. "I know I said let's film my congregation, but after seeing this video of these people, we've kind of been there done that visually speaking. ![]() ![]() Thus produce more of a year-book-like video, but once the Pastor saw ten minutes of the first draft of the edited DVD footage, he was not 100% happy with the outcome. Initially we thought we would film the people, their hands, and the Rosary beads. None of us had either filmed a Rosary, which is long (i.e., four sections each of which is 20 minutes long and repetitive) and almost like a meditative chant. The audio had it's own issues which I'll get back to, but the video was the really big issue. Knowing that the audio for this project would be the lead (vs the visuals), I hired an expert at on-location audio recording so we had three mics set up - two stereo mics to capture the congregation and one mic for the Pastor (i.e., my Audio Technica 4041) and brought all three audio tracks direct into a laptop computer running Sonar. It started simple enough with the Pastor saying, "Chuck, I'd like to film my church at prayer."
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