First Post

Director of photography Don and I at Waikiki testing shots

Well, it's been a couple of months since I wrote the script. The story started back when I was in Bible College, 7 years ago. The professor for our apologetics course wanted a paper on the differences between creationism and evolution. I decided to write a script on the subject and make a short movie on it. A small group helped me out but it came out really, really bad. We knew nothing about lighting, shooting, editing, acting, nothing. I took some courses on production and editing, and had the idea of remaking it someday. The years went by and as I started a Youtube account and saw the growing numbers of atheists on Youtube attacking Christianity with horrific fallacious arguments, I began to defend the faith there. Then I heard about the San Antonio Christian Film Festival and it all came together.
Grace and I thought we'd been doing most of this on our own. I knew I needed and actor for the Angel, and at least a cinematographer to light up the sets and shoot the film, but everything else would be just us. Then we began praying for this project, putting some ads around town and the internet and the Lord started bringing in all the talents. We got talent now to make a real good, top notch low budget film. I don't think I ever saw these words in a phrase before, "top notch low budget film." Hmmm...
90% of pre-production is done. We got all the actors locked. We got all locations down except for a bookstore. Still looking for an older, classic looking, with creaking wood floors bookstore somewhere in the island. Oh, man! I know a perfect one in downtown São Paulo, Brazil. But there's just no way I can get visas in time for all the crew. Oh, well... Anyways, storyboard is almost done, scene board is done, Scene board. Altogether 20 different scenes.
green screen is set and ready to go. We found a nice, brown real human hair goatee for Mike's character which will give him a real cool look, we can't wait to to slap some spirit gum glue and derma wax on that boy. :)
I'll be posting up on this blog my experiences as the director of this movie. Mostly, so I can read it in the future and learn from my mistakes and new things that I learned. Mistakes like, "Argh! I knew I shouldn't have cast that guy!" Just kidding, I don't have those thoughts. Yet. Ok, scratch "yet" out, that wasn't nice either.