Midnight Oil Productions
www.midnightoilproductions.com
An award winning digital artist, Jason continues to establish new styles for visual imagery in worship that he hopes will help the church reach the culture we live in. Known for his pioneering work in digital images for worship, he has devoted the last six years to developing professional, highly emotive graphics, animation and video that are being emulated in churches throughout the country.
Jason's passions include designing worship, production, acting and teaching. He leads seminars across North America on creating cutting edge worship, with an emphasis on demystifying the productions process. Believing in the power of the story, he likes to pepper his projects and teaching with humor.
His book, co-authored with close friend Len Wilson, is DigitalStorytellers: The Art of Communicating the Gospel in Worship (Abingdon Press, 2002). Jason was also the lead designer for the CD-ROM of the best selling book The Wired Church: Making Media Ministry and has completed projects for such organizations as The Fuller Institute, Easum Bandy and Associates and Abingdon Press. In addition, he has designed worship alongside such leaders as Tony Campolo and Len Sweet.
As animator/illustrator and member of the worship design team at Ginghamsburg Church from 997-2000, Jason brought a fresh approach to the use of digital media that raised the bar for artistic standards in worship.
In 2000, Jason co-founded Lumicon Digital Productions, a non-profit arm of UMR Communications whose purpose is to be a comprehensive teaching center for assisting churches in the ministry of digital culture. After 2 years of casting vision and producing high quality worship resources for churches through Lumicon, Jason and Len established Midnight Oil Productions.
In addition, Jason and Len have been featured in several articles for publications including The Ooze, Homiletics, Next Wave, Rev., Technologies for Worship, Wired, Worship Matters, Your Church, Church and Worship Technology, and various newspapers around North America.
Jason graduated from the School of Advertising Art. He has been awarded Hermes, UMAC, and Telly Awards for his innovations in animation, design and illustration.
