UPCI Wisconsin Home Missions Director Pastor Rick Kielley
CenterStage Productions is honored to have been chosen to produce the 2010 Christmas for Christ promotional film for the UPCI Wisconsin District’s Home Missions Department featuring Pastor Mark Showalter from Bread of Life Apostolic Church (Mukwonago, Wis) and Pastor Marshall Newble from Apostolic Worship Center (Milwaukee, Wis).
For this short film, we decided to go back to the basics – to bring the home missions church experience to the viewers of this short. Instead of just talking about what it meant to pastor a home missions church, we wanted to showcase the pastors and their congregations in their element. And that meant packing up our cameras, our multitrack audio recorders, a small selection of versatile studio mic’s from our mic locker and heading out to film everything on site at the churches and the surrounding neighborhoods.
On October 3rd, we filmed from 9:30AM to 5:30PM at various locations in Mukwonago, Wis. while being hosted by Pastor Mark Showalter and the fine people at Bread of Life. Interviews with members of the congregation and Pastor Showalter were conducted at the church while a baptism was filmed at a local beach along the Mukwonago River.
On October 10th, we again packed up our equipment and headed down to the inner city of Milwaukee to learn more about this church being held in an elementary school in the worst neighborhood in Southeastern Wisconsin and to try to bring another amazing home missions story to the viewers. Everyone at Apostolic Worship Center was so accommodating with certain technical requests required to capture the full dynamism present at this church. Although it was another very long day behind the camera (from 8:30AM to 6:30PM), we believe we captured some amazing footage that accurately portrays Apostolic Worship Center’s true mission.
After spending 100 hours in post production for this short, which included developing the story on the timeline during rough edit, multitrack audio mixdown, audio mastering, final grading and color correcting, and insertion of English subtitles for the deaf and hearing impaired, we have finally put this one “in the can” and recently distributed 100 DVD copies throughout the state to UPCI Wisconsin District churches.
Below is an excerpt from the film highlighting some of the action that took place at Apostolic Worship Center in Milwaukee.