The music video is a joint venture between BYU Broadcasting and the Choir. “When we heard Mack Wilberg’s arrangement of ‘Called to Serve’ we thought there was a way to give it a wider audience that would benefit both the Choir and BYU Broadcasting,” said Jim Bell, Senior Producer at BYU-TV. The idea for the music video was born.

Like most projects with the Choir and Orchestra, several things were actually done at once to get the footage needed for the video. One Sunday in January following Music and the Spoken Word, the men of the Choir and all of the Orchestra spent 45 minutes doing a number of takes of the song. The men were spread out evenly through the Tabernacle for the best visual effect. A number of separate cameras were filming at the same time. The footage was used not only for the BYU music video but also for a video appearance of the Choir at the May 2008 Women’s Confer-ence at BYU as well as a promotional piece used at Deseret Book’s Time Out for Women series throughout the spring and fall.

Matt Eastin, a film maker who works on projects with BYU Broadcasting, took the Tabernacle footage and added other footage of real missionaries around the world. He spent a day shooting the activities of a companionship of elders and another one of sisters in the Utah Provo mission as they worked with contacts and investigators. The result is a highly moving, slightly different slice on missionary work and this fervent song which has inspired missionaries of all types
For more information about the Choir go to www.mormontabernaclechoir.org

If you watch KBYU TV in Utah or BYU Television (carried on all Dish Network and Direct TV satellite services), you may have seen something that has the look and the feel of an MTV music video but featuring the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square. Your eyes aren’t deceiving you. The music video is a joint venture between BYU Broadcasting and the Choir. “When we heard Mack Wilberg’s arrangement of ‘Called to Serve’ we thought there was a way to give it a wider audience that would benefit both the Choir and BYU Broadcasting,” said Jim Bell, Senior Producer at BYU-TV. The idea for the music video was born.

Like most projects with the Choir and Orchestra, several things were actually done at once to get the footage needed for the video. One Sunday in January following Music and the Spoken Word, the men of the Choir and all of the Orchestra spent 45 minutes doing a number of takes of the song. The men were spread out evenly through the Tabernacle for the best visual effect. A number of separate cameras were filming at the same time. The footage was used not only for the BYU music video but also for a video appearance of the Choir at the May 2008 Women’s Confer-ence at BYU as well as a promotional piece used at Deseret Book’s Time Out for Women series throughout the spring and fall.

Matt Eastin, a film maker who works on projects with BYU Broadcasting, took the Tabernacle footage and added other footage of real missionaries around the world. He spent a day shooting the activities of a companionship of elders and another one of sisters in the Utah Provo mission as they worked with contacts and investigators. The result is a highly moving, slightly different slice on missionary work and this fervent song which has inspired missionaries of all types.