OMF-Film

Knowing You, Jesus was written by Graham Kendrick and in this video is performed by soloist Cara Cobham backed by a string quartet with also bassoon and piano. Set in multiple locations, several versions were originally created to address most user requirements including with and without lyrics, extra large lyrics for larger venues, lyrics on plain backgrounds etc.

This is the original full version on which all options were based. This is a full screen full HD film with lyrics.

This is a full full HD version in cinema widescreen format with lyrics below

This is a full full HD version in cinema widescreen format with lyrics below but in a shorter runtime without end credits.

Written by Irving Berlin back in 1923 as a soliloquy to his fiancé when she was sent away by her father on a one year trip to Europe because he did not approve of Berlin, this version of the song was published by Ssounds / OMF on the centenary of What'll I Do, with Berlin's original verses amended to refer to what will I do without God and two new Christian verses written by screenwriter Vic Marelle added.

The new Christian version was an attempt by OMF / Ssounds to bring melodic jazz music into church, combatting the many decidedly unmelodic and virtually tuneless clips circulating on the internet following Covid-19 lockdown.

To achieve that, OMF created a computer generated virtual jazz club with real soloist and musicians performing on stage. Versions include a solo singer, a duet and a threesome, all backed by typical melodic jazz musicians including a string bass and Phil Shotton, one of the UK's best saxophonists.

Titled for William Henry Monk's tune normally associated with Henry Francis Lyte's familiar hymn Abide With Me, Eventide was originally created as a personal project several years before Covid hit the UK but later used as a concept for potential OMF religious shorts. That initiative subsequently became the Ssounds project. In that guise Eventide was only ever to be viewed in meetings between the OMF crew and church leaders as an example of what potential short film treatment could achieve. There was never any intention of releasing this short.

Indeed, any distribution or internet visibility would be illegal and as such, Eventide cannot be viewed by general public and access is restricted with strict conditions applied.

This is the original version intended only as a concept. Lyrics captions were added later but considered to be too small and too light. This concept option is just 854x480 pixels which is similar to DVD but still enables the concept style to be apparent for discussion.