A JOURNEY TO CALVARY
This is not to be seen as a another Holy Land video, but to be seen as a common man's view and his understanding of Jesus in his journey towards Jesus. While taking these video clips I did not have any idea of making a film like this. Like any other travel, I took these video clips and kept it with me. After retirement my interest in photography resurfaced and I started learning more on camera, photography, videography lenses, camera angles etc. etc.( It is full life time subject ) I spent huge amount of time in understanding these in the last 2 years ( Pandemic period) and continue to spent lot of time in learning this hobby. Now I started learning film making, screen play and other techniques apart from editing and lenses and gadgets..
Then I started making videos of my earlier trips in the new software knowledge I acquired and that is the time I made some episodes of this Holy land trip also. I used to send some of clips to my younger sister (Daisy Daniel) and she told me once to make a full video of this visit and this prompted me to do this. It took six months for me to collect and re-organise the clips, edit, color grade, rearrange, compose and prepare transitions, make title videos, audios, music and compiling.. As a matter of fact I had spent lot of time in understanding video editing, You Tube operation (As I have not done you tube earlier )and today when I look back I feel it was really worth doing this series.
This is an organized video in chronological order with narration of my own understanding on the real life experience of Holy Land visit. All tour operators show you the places according to their convenience and not according to Bible history.
Viewing this clip before you undertake the trip would give a fair idea of the places of visit and where you should spend more time. This will also provide some information on the importance of each place in biblical context and some explanations and interpretations of my own.
One benefit of making this is the direct benefit to me itself. I am the person whos is most benefitted compared to anybody. My understanding has greatly improved by knowing the places he preached, the context, the culture and geography etc... in more deeper way. Initially I made different episodes with text ( Without audio narration) and later I added my audio narration into this.
Although it was the first attempt after understanding software to some extent, the each episode was created in different style (without any temp plates ) with my own idea. You can see and appreciate the differences if you are a video maker by closely watching each episode with its style, techniques of presentation, text presentation and transitions. Lot of time was consumed in generating new ideas for each clip and the techniques used and interpretations are purely my own.
Truly, I tell you, I made this video putting my full heart into it and while making some episodes I cried in my heart feeling the pain of Jesus. That led me to make the last clip - The trial of Jesus - with my own experience of standing in the court . I don't know how many times I have seen these clips, but I feel like seeing it again and again and some times I wonder how I could make this series. Definitely I believe there is a hand of GoD which has driven me to make this.
I am sure I would have many mistakes as I am not a professional video programmer and many times I had to run different modules and redo/ revise it for number of times to get some perfection I wanted it. In the process I might have overlooked some errors like spelling mistakes which I noticed later could not be corrected, as it will involve huge amount of work again. Pardon me for this.
I am quite sure this video will benefit many including my own generations in future.