If you're reading this, you've likely clicked on the QR code from the flyer at the Digital Media Ministry booth!! Awesome, and thank you. 

There's a relatively good chance that you're already a parishioner at St. Joseph's; and that you've seen me (Terri) bouncing around with multiple cameras recording stills and video coverage over the years "for the website." Part of the reason for the QR code is I will be stepping away from the booth a few times today to do just that!!!

Now the phrase “for the website” has become a catch all phrase—it doesn’t always mean directly for the website anymore, it now includes the social media as well. It used to be occasionally a social media post with a preview or two, and a photo album directly on the website. Due to site size constraints and the fact that most parishioners engage with the social media (Facebook/Instagram), the photos usually go there first. By the way, we do have extra photo coverage on our Flickr account.

After eight years, I would like to do more with the site than copying information from the bulletin and plopping some photos on here though. These are some of the projects I’m working on or things I would like to implement:

• In House graphic/audio/video production. We link to outside sources already, lets produce our own…whether it’s a blog/vlog/podcast series, or if the church or a ministry needs a flyer or graphic made for an event. Even if you want to make some video skits that are educational (as long as they're church related and appropriate...we love funny as long as it works): Lets make it, lets make it all. I'm not entirely comfortable with being in front of the camera as I have a slight stammer...so I would much rather be production team.
• Archive and Digitization. Now this plays in part to the next thing on the list a little, and will probably be on going beyond it. We are a nearly 100 year old church. I have taken it upon myself to curate a lot of the older photos and other irreplaceable things. As an added step of preservation, started the digitization process of making high resolution scans of these photos. Ways to help with this process: contribute!!!! Add to the collection, that's probably the easiest way to help and we'll likely hook you up with a high resolution digital file of your contribution in return. I haven’t been here forever so don’t assume I’ve taken a photo of something LOL. If you’re good at photoshop or willing to learn the basics, assist in the restoration process, as most of them need a little bit of polishing up.
• Documentary production. This is one of the long term projects I’m working on. Like I mentioned, we have the 100th anniversary of the church coming up. I made a special slide show for the 90^th and I want to do something way better for this. I want to interview people who have been around for a while. Shoot, I want to interview people who were around recently. If you have stories to tell about the church, I want to hear them. If your good at motion graphics, help me out, cause I want to be able to do something special with some of these older photos (that isn’t horribly gaudy, I've seen those ads with the apps with the singing celeb photos), but I’m not good at that kind of thing. I’m also not that great at Spanish just yet….so anyone willing to help me edit the Spanish interviews would be a great help.
• Livestreaming. As much as I'm happy to be here all the time, life happens and I can't always be here. Even before the pandemic, it was a goal of mine to have recordings of the masses for those who are homebound. Yes, EWTN exists...so do other channels but they're missing something we have: our own community.

 Behind the scenes. In front of the camera. Anyone one willing to bring ideas to the website, this is the group for you.