Today was a great day. Here I am working to jump out in faith that this will financially pay for itself. The Media-Moses Ltd, the films, the series, the documentary work, etc. So we are working to build a team to shoot not just film but also TV series and video podcast work (for Youtube). Working on these promos to show we can make this series using "The Chosen" series as a model. Getting actors and resources from the series to fill it out, which I'm very grateful to Debbie (my co-producer) for this great work. Also working on another promo to sell the services of the "production co" which will be an interview/documentary style promo to help build a news & commentary business community locally. This can work for us at Media-Moses or contract out to bring in more funds. Flexibility with a production company is important so that will be a corp. owned by Media-Moses parent company, eventually.
I registered Media-Moses Ltd., I got a PO Box, and I will be getting a bank account soon. I bought a new cinema camera for all this new work, and it came just an hour ago!
It's a good little cinema camera & cheaper than many others of this form factor. It's called a Z-cam E2 M4. This one is not the higher resolution 6 or 8k cameras which are hot now. It's a 4k camera but has excellent dynamic range, higher fps, & dual native ISO which gives you cleaner images in variety of brightness. It's a micro 4/3 sensor which goes with my Meike cinema lenses I bought for my older GH5. So that's an extra expense I don't have to pay.
It's a bit of a risk so I'm having to trust God for much of this. I still have to get a few more lights & reflectors & diffusion for daylight ext shoots which is going to be much of our initial promo work since we have no studio so we'll be going on day-length shoots outside. Staying mobile is good at first anyway because it challenges you to stay efficient and effective. It also means contracting out is easier. We go to them instead of always asking them to come to us. People like that.
I've been working on a church-based model (shoot in churches) to shoot special episodes of our podcast "The OFB". The idea is to ask local churches to partner with us to bring in special guests & use their sanctuary to discuss hot cultural topics (mostly faith-based entertainment questions). This requires much prayer because many churches are very negative on the idea of sharing resources or letting you use their space. But it makes so much more possible when you have an event space (a sanctuary) being used to host church-related discussions. It takes an open-minded pastor to allow someone from another church to bring in ideas not endorsed by that church or denomination. I find it disturbing that our churches are often so closed off to these ideas because these kinds of discussions benefit everyone, and no church should have to feel that they need to endorse opinions just because they are having an open discussion with someone else. Talking freely in good faith with someone doesn't imply you agree with everything that is said in these conversations.
It's amazing. Like I said, I've been praying about financially committing to this work and then some windshield salesmen guys come to my house today and one guy was like, "You're a filmmaker?" I was like yeah here's a short film on Youtube. He's like "I've been searching for you for years! I can pay for this kind of work!" I'm like <3.
Let me tell you God is good. He will provide and make sure this is well taken care of and we are headed in the right direction. Why? Because we are working for Him. That's why.
