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By: Jude Siciliano, OP
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Preaching Via YouTube & MySpace

Saint Dominic walking bare foot out of a briar patch. Taken at St. Cecilia motherhouse in Nashville, Tennessee.PROJECT: GRACE AMONG US (working title): Produce a series of 13 video preaching shorts of up to 4-minutes each to be posted on YouTube and MySpace. Millions visit these websites.

MISSION: To bring a preaching message of grace, challenge, hope and healing, especially to the un-churched visiting the websites of YouTube and MySpace.

DESCRIPTION: Each video short will focus on a challenge, need or call in our world today, such as addressing consumerism or helping the homeless, or promoting peace and justice, and beauty or any other such topic to be identified by Pluma Pictures and its sponsors.

o Each video will NOT be a production in which the preacher simply preaches in front of the camera. There may be a moment in which we may see the preacher at the opening and closing of the video short, but this is yet to be determined. This is a creative decision that is the sole responsibility of the 1director.

o The primary objective of each video short is to be engaging with exciting visuals, including animations when appropriate, graphics and inspiring music. Our aim is to produce a preaching short similar to an inspiring music video or successful commercial.

o We will put out a call for Dominicans to send in a tape(s) or script(s) for preaching shorts of about 3 minutes. (Due to time & financial constraints only the top 13 will be selected.)

If we accept the tape or script, we will pay $150 per tape or script and scheduled it for production. We may or may not videotape the preacher submitting the initial tape or script. But he or she will be credited as the "writer".

PRODUCING PARTNERS

In order to finance this much-needed series we need Producing Partners, sponsors. A congregation, province or organization may partner with us – Pluma Pictures – by financing a video short in the series at 2$4,700 per video-short. Sponsors will be credited in the credits section of video short and, if they so desire, their link or links will be posted at the very end of each video-short.

Please note that we will produce each short independent of the others. In other words, once we get financing for one short we will produce it and post it on YouTube and MySpace. To sponsor or for information contact:  Armando P. Ibáñez, O.P., at 213-864-4545 / plumapictures@sbcglobal.net.


1 Producing Partners (sponsors) may select their own preacher(s) and submit their own script(s).

2 Please note that the cost is very low. Commercials and music videos cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to produce to sell cokes, cookies, etc.

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