Video Script

Jim Eller/Instructor: “Have you worked any of these cameras before?

Student: I haven’t.”

Narrator: Jim Eller was a pastor. Now he teaches students at United Theological Seminary, the art ... that is, the “new” art ... of spiritual communication.

Jim Eller: “As more and more people continue to communicate digitally, we need to also communicate that way.”

Students in hallway: “Let me set up a shot. That way I have you walking towards me.”

Jim Eller: “The stories we tell don’t change, but the formats that we’re using to tell those stories do change. We have to tell our stories in a medium that a great percentage of the culture lives in every day.”

Jenny Smith/Student: “It is the same God, but it is taking into account that the people sitting in the pew are different than they were 20 years ago.”

Narrator: Jenny Smith, like most of her classmates, wants to pastor a local church.

Jenny Smith: “It starts with a big montage trying to get a feel...”

Narrator: Smith is taking production classes at the seminary in Dayton, Ohio, because she agrees with her instructor that just talking from a pulpit and using printed church bulletins aren’t enough anymore.

Instructor to class: “How much video do I need to actually explain what the narrator is saying?”

Jenny Smith: “This technology is just another tool in our toolbox for how to connect people with God, just like singing and music is a tool.”

Jim Eller: “I call what we do in video story telling the creating of a modern stained glass window. It doesn’t happen overnight and it doesn’t happen without planning and without an artistic eye.”

Students on tape: “Together. Together. Together. It’s better when we do it together.”

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