The Gospel According to Oprah eval

Same Direction--Roy thought the background to the song was too busy.  background distracting on center....

Monologues--these were awesome!  Christina did a great job of writing these--they were extremely convincing and really gave credibility to the other viewpoint.  

Music sounded really great.  Too much light on Brian as a background vocalist.  But from a camera standpoint, everyone was too dark. Band did a good job playing with a click track.

Good call to have Oprah speak for herself...couple of frames that should have been cut...(people walk off clip).  Function of imovie transition...?

Opening media piece was good...words at end were too small, so we had to cut it off 2nd service.  When we cut the words 2nd service, we should have kept music going underneath so it wasn't so abrupt.

click track glich 1st service...

6-8 Eval

band flexed and added an intro which worked great.

Paul did a great job--especially 2nd service, a lot looser.

1st Service awkward segue between the idol logo to Paul.

"Always Be My Baby" Brian had more energy 2nd service, which was great. Sounded great first service, but didn't "Sell" it with his communication.

Staff idol video--Okay...don't know how funny it was. Probably a video that was in the middle of production. If we could have taken that and had two more weeks to tweak it, would have made it a lot better. Wasn't seen in time to make any changes. Good that we had two camera angels, etc.. music at the end was great--wish we had more sound effects and over the top stuff through out. Probably needed to be faster paced and shorter, some of the set up stuff was confusing, so I don't know how well they followed the story line...ie: candy--why was she dressed as a bag lady? Wish there had been the kung fu over dub between Trevor and Rachel--or a dart/sound effect...


Wonderfully Made--worked well, actors didn't seem as natural as usual...

Song started kind of abruptly--a softer drum click in would have worked better--the song started kind of abruptly out of the drama.

Music sounded great, and David did a great job leading, with Jason's help.

6-1 Eval

Medley:
Great job--everyone really worked hard on this--very effective. David was especially on his game in communication and really hammed it up. Overall, everything was often.

Instrumentally--very tight--things held together well.

Vocalists--great job, lots of hard work. Girls, good job learning all of those parts, and figuring out how to coordinate everything.

To improve: Maybe give girls more specifics so that they feel more choreographed. There were times where it didn't seem as high energy as it could have been. Perhaps because we asked them to be careful about dance moves, seemed like they backed off the energy a bit. Dawn, smile more!:) But, a lot to pull off and they did great for all of the harmonies, props, dance moves, etc!

Lot of programming up front and maybe too long before Roy spoke. Need to remember on medley days that we can cut back the programming a bit.

Song with drama was great--good changes to make it more of a fit with the dancing/Jamaica thing.

Media: not sure if the ramsey-isms. wouldn't have repeated the clips from both media pieces.

butt shot??? not sure about that...

Surrender--great job everyone--the full vocal team on stage was really cool!

5-11 Eval

here is the eval from last weekend. these are the comments from the tuesday morning programming meeting/discussion.

The song: "Smash" probably didn't work that well--probably would have worked if we had smashed the vegetables live and stuff...song might have been a little poppy for the footage. maybe a bit of a disconnect and probably didn't move the story along.

Video of Roy--what's on the inside comes out...video had a good artsy feel.

Staind song out of drama--Eric did a great job. Great song for him.

Roy did well with segue out of it--did flare with drama characters. Good improv with the flares.:) Nice to have a visual aid. Had a lot of comments about the effect of that and the service in general.

One thing to note: we did have 2 metaphors. "What's on the inside comes out" and the flare. They were connected, but wonder if that was confusing to have 2 different metaphors.

Roy wove in both "Outside" and "Honesty" with message really well.

Sara did a great job with communication on ending song. Great for her voice.

Felt like overall it was effective. The mood was totally different than the high energy of last Sunday and it's nice to feel like we can sell both moods, etc.

Having Jamie in the audience was really great--to be able to coach and listen to house sound.

Di--we probably should have had her rehearse earlier with mic, monitor,etc ...had echo on her voice/computer system was causing an echo...Di did a good job warming up the audience/mother's day, etc. Standing ovation for her performance! Even when the words were forgotten, audience was into it and loved that you were spitting out all those words!

4-6 reign over me EVAL

screens--how did it go?
center screen is more distorted than others, but if we fit the center screen, it will throw off the side screens...

trailer--since it was from youtube, looked significantly better on side screens because of youtube quality and center projector not being HD. Had to have it on center screen for trailer because the music video was right before.

We think that it worked for side screens for the clips, but haven't heard anything.
We are assuming side screens wouldn't work when band is playing, but others think it's easier when just the sides are up and not on the stage. We might try putting a music video on side screens only and see what we think.

Still down to the wire making video decisions. Like, it just takes a while to format things, etc.

Drama/message/clips--worried about it being redundant, but think it flowed pretty well and connected with what Roy was saying.

Scott and Sam were very real, and I thought the timing and heart of the drama was great.

Band instrumentation--probably the best we've done. Great to have Steve. Cool thing--after one rehearsal Steve commented on how great rehearsing with the band was---that it wasn't about anyones egos but about something greater. Kudos to the band for portraying that heart and attitude, no matter how difficult rehearsal is. I thought it was cool that he picked up on that.

all these crazy screens...

Okay so what about all these screens? Here are some thoughts from programming meeting today:

Can we leave some screens blank? do they all have to be on?

Candy: When the band is playing--we want center screen, so you don't have to turn.
Trevor: If you're going to watch the media, you don't care about watching the band.
Candy: But a back up piece is just supposed to be in the background, not a focal point.

questions to ponder:
do more people watch the media than the band?
would it be okay to have media on the side screens and not center?
is 3 screens overkill all the time?

for next week:
can we show video clips just on side screens?
does there always have to be stuff on the side screens?

why are the lips out of sync?
delay on the projector
possibly affected by the way we're using keynote--not designed to play that much video
possibly avi is a problem.

we need to work media out beforehand--it's too complicated to wait until Sunday to format everything.

goal: what if saturdays were freed up to do the project for the following week?

movie anyone?

i saw this and thought with our drama team and media people, we might be able to do something similar. i know it would be tough to match this high of quality. the bar's pretty high...