Production!

(By Chad the DP)

Well, here I am in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, for the production of the short film from Step One Films, Father Who Art. Jonathan Spaulding, the director, and I went on a shopping excursion last night to hunt down the remaining props and food items that he needed for today. Unfortunately, he wasn't feeling to well last night, but thanks be to the Lord, he was feeling much better today. We began work at 2:00 this afternoon, setting up lights (loaned from the local Public Access TV station), cameras, props, etc., in a gorgeous early 20th-century house. It was the perfect setting for the scenes that we were shooting today.

Built quite a few years ago, complete with push-button light switches! We started out in the living room, shooting the scenes with the most dialogue. This morning I had to go to Walmart to get a print made, which you can see in this picture: In case you're wondering, no, I didn't take it... it's a public domain image from the U.S. Government, which we obtained from the handy-dandy source called Wikipedia. He's an Airborne soldier from the U.S. Army. We changed his name for the movie, though (gotta love photoshop!).
"The knife is a sharp guy; he's always right, so he goes on the right...."
Things got a bit complicated when it clouded over really bad and a rainstorm hit (our outdoors lighting source was hidden from view...). However, this turned out to be a blessing in disguise, as because of the rain, an actor who had to leave early was able to come back to do a scene we had forgotten about. Light began to fail us a little after we ate supper, so we set up Jonathan's halogen work lights outside, which turned the dusk into a right nice noon-ish feel. So anyway, we had a great day; the Lord blessed it, and I feel that we got some good footage. I'm so glad that I could come out to help!