{"id":29827,"date":"2015-04-03T11:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-04-03T18:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/?p=29827"},"modified":"2015-08-17T22:53:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T05:53:29","slug":"watch-five-videos-on-the-lumo-project-and-its-word-for-word-adaptation-of-the-gospel-of-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/04\/watch-five-videos-on-the-lumo-project-and-its-word-for-word-adaptation-of-the-gospel-of-john.html","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Five videos on the Lumo Project and its word for word adaptation of <i>The Gospel of John<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/04\/lumoproject-banner.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/227\/2015\/04\/lumoproject-banner-1024x341.jpg\" alt=\"lumoproject-banner\" width=\"600\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29835\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/tag\/lumo-project\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">The Lumo Project<\/a>\u2019s word-for-word adaptation of <i>The Gospel of John<\/i> debuted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.netflix.com\/search\/gospel%20of%20john\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">on Netflix<\/a> a few months ago, but I\u2019ve been so busy keeping track of various other projects since then that I haven\u2019t had a chance to write my review of it yet.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->However, the film premiered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b05q13xx\/the-gospel-of-john-episode-1\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">on the BBC<\/a> this week, and to mark the occasion, the producers have posted five videos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCjiDMt6Lm1jYQvSp4BROWVw\/videos\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">to YouTube<\/a>, ranging from a brief teaser lasting less than one minute to a lengthier featurette that clocks in at 13 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>So if you haven\u2019t familiarized yourself with this project yet, you can watch the videos below to get a taste of where it\u2019s coming from theologically and artistically.<\/p>\n<p>First, this 58-second video on \u2018What Is the Lumo Project?\u2019:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"What is the Lumo Project?\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MF2ze5Jlrd4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Second, this 98-second trailer for <i>The Gospel of John<\/i> specifically:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Gospel of John Trailer\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6K5E5jUMpuM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Third, this 100-second \u201ctranslation sample\u201d, which segues from the New International Version (narrated by David Harewood) to the King James Version (narrated by Brian Cox) to the Spanish Reina Valera translation to the Chinese Contemporary Bible to the Italian Nuova Riveduta translation and then back to the English versions:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Translation sample of the Lumo Project\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QbK74X_QgzI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fourth, this 4-minute dissection of the scene in which Jesus meets Nicodemus, with soundbites from director David Batty, cinematographer Ben Hodgson, theological consultant Ray Bruce and actor Selva Rasilingam, who plays Jesus:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TWUuPfoKaq4<\/p>\n<p>And, finally, this 13-minute \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d featurette:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fzoUOIAFco8<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The producers have released a few new behind-the-scenes clips to mark the film&#8217;s premiere on the BBC this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2904,2656,2901,2655,2902,345,1603,907,2903,2471],"class_list":["post-29827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ben-hodgson","tag-brian-cox","tag-david-batty","tag-david-harewood","tag-hannah-leader","tag-jesus","tag-lumo-project","tag-nicodemus","tag-ray-bruce","tag-selva-rasalingam"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Watch: Five videos on the Lumo Project and its word for word adaptation of The Gospel of John<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The producers have released a few new behind-the-scenes clips to mark the film&#039;s premiere on the BBC this week.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/04\/watch-five-videos-on-the-lumo-project-and-its-word-for-word-adaptation-of-the-gospel-of-john.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Watch: Five videos on the Lumo Project and its word for word adaptation of The Gospel of John\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The producers have released a few new behind-the-scenes clips to mark the film&#039;s premiere on the BBC this week.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2015\/04\/watch-five-videos-on-the-lumo-project-and-its-word-for-word-adaptation-of-the-gospel-of-john.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"FilmChat\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-04-03T18:30:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-08-18T05:53:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/wp.production.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/files\/2015\/04\/lumoproject-banner-1024x341.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Peter T. 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