Short Video Shoot

  We were invited to help film a short video Stephen Littman was filming with the rest of his crew.

  Benjamin played the lead in a crime scene and a short fighting scene that I was also in.

  I should be able to post a link to the video fairly soon, but until then take a look at the behind-the-scenes video below: 

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Sons of Georgia

On Saturday we attended the premiere of “Sons of Georgia,” a Civil War made here in St. Louis by homeschoolers. The filming of the video was beautiful, the story was touching and there was also a good bit of humor.

I did the filming for the premiere event and edited the video above.

2011 CHEF Conference-Photos

The conference is held at the St. Charles Convention Center in Missouri, but the hotel that is attached is called the “Embassy Suites.”  In this picture you can see the lobby and breakfast area from 6 stories up.

 

 

 

 

Noah & Mom heading down to breakfast the first morning...

A few of the attendees in the convention center

Eating pizza the evening of the first day

 

One of the booths at the vendor hall

 

There were a lot of other young men going to Mr. Potter’s sessions

I’m not sure why but I found this picture of a headless listener very funny.

 

Photo Shoot before the Ball:

The ladies with their hoop skirts

In a lot of the Civil War-era photos the subjects aren’t smiling so we took a few photos without smiling either

Some filmmakers at the conference were filming a scene with a Civil War dance so we all volunteered for a few hours to be in front of the camera.  I’ll post a link to the film on this blog whenever it becomes available.

We got to know the Mays family a lot better at this conference and my brothers and I spent most of our time with their son, Nate.

Eating a fabulous made-to-order breakfast with the Mays family

I sold this clock to Nate, but he only paid me with Confederate money.

  During the last evening of the conference there was a Civil War ball (hence all of the lessons we had taken for the past few months.)  There were a lot more people there for the ball and also in costume than I had ever imagined.  I am not a very good guesser but there were probably 300 dancers on the floor.

  The video I got from the ball isn’t as good as the footage I’ve filmed at the dance lessons, but I’ll post a few videos from the ball whenever I have the time.

July 25, 2009

The family was tired from the work this week, so Mom took the day off-but my brothers and I sure didn’t.
We started a game of soccer, but it was really hot. Benjamin and I ended up working on a Lego movie. I usually dislike making Lego movies because I’m the post-production man and Legos don’t give you much of a head start when it comes to dialogue, sound effects and ambience. However, maybe I’ll post some of the rough drafts of our LEGO movies on this blog.
That afternoon Benjamin wanted to go down to the creek and fish. Three children of one of our neighbors also came along. A 9 year-old boy, a 7-year-old girl and a 6-year-old girl. The fishing spot that Benjamin wanted to try was about three quarters of a mile away. It’s a little difficult to get through the fields now that there are soy beans planted, but we walked along the edge of the fields and made it to the creek.
The fishing wasn’t great, but that may have been caused by our neighbor’s dog who kept on jumping and swimming in the water and probably scaring the fish away. However, Benjamin did catch one good-sized Sunfish.
I had hoped to make a GTC Outdoors episode while we were at the creek, but it would have been hard with the company. However, I did squeeze out a promise from Benjamin that during our 8 night stay on Table Rock Lake in September Benjamin would help me produce three GTC Outdoors episodes.