California Trip - 1

We headed for the west on June 24th (Tues) across New Mexico and Arizona visiting the Petrified Forest and Grand Canyon (Wed) along the way. Staying on schedule with our crew of ten people is quite an achievement that has been rarely accomplished on this trip. As a result, we arrived at the Grand Canyon a little bit later than we expected but it allowed us to be there when the sun set! God's creation is really beautiful.

The Grand Canyon

The Grand Canyon at sunset

When we arrived in California we first drove through L.A. (Thurs) to visit some relatives including one of my great uncles. It was a great time of swimming, singing and visiting. Next stop was San Fransisco (Sat) to see more relatives (my mom's cousins) who gave us a tour of the city. We visited a glass exhibit at a museum, the Japanese gardens, rode the subway/cable car, walked to fisherman's wharf (a long walk,) rode a trolley, went out to eat and drove across the golden gate bridge. That was quite a day!

The great Golden Gate

Sunday we found a church at 11:30 :) After that we drove to Yosemite National Park and saw some beautiful waterfalls and mountains. We went back on Monday to look around some more.

Beautiful scenery at Yosemite.

Hear are some pictures of the bear and deer we saw.

Yours Truly filming at Yosemite

The same guy again

The conference started on Tuesday evening, but since we attended in Big Sandy, most of us toured around and relaxed :) We stayed at a nice hotel (Hawthorn Suites) which had a hot breakfast each morning - what a treat compared to the regular "continental breakfast" at the other hotels we had been staying at during the trip.

Friday we began our long trek back home - scheduled to arrive in OKC Tues evening, after a few stops in Colorado....but it seems that God had other plans because it is now Monday evening and we have been stuck in Ely, Nevada since Sat. We broke down on what is called "the loneliest road" and let me tell ya, it is well named. But, praise the Lord, several people stopped and they were kind enough to hunt down some help for us because there was no cell phone reception where we were stuck at. Not only that but we were 45-50 miles from Ely which is known to be "the remotest town in the U.S." - Salt Lake, Reno and Las Vegas are all 240 miles away!! Now, try to get a new radiator with those statistics...nonetheless God is faithful and a couple from the church we visited were headed to Salt Lake anyway and offered to pick up a radiator for us! They are, Lord willing, on their way back right now and we should have it put in later tonight. Hopefully we can take off tomorrow morning....keep praying :) Oh, and the hotel we have been staying at for the last couple of days took pity on us and gave us a great rate! The people here are fabulous and there is so much more to tell about but I guess I'll wait till I have some more pictures.

Being stuck on the side of the road for a couple of hours provided a great "short video" opportunity - you'll be hearing more about it after I get back home and back to my computer ;)

I'll post more pictures and more details later...

Widow's Might

They have quite a bit of BTS pictures and video on their blog. It's looking really good!

Ely, Nevada

No, this isn't Photo Shopped
Yes, we are stranded in Nevada.

More details to come...

Pendragon Blog updates

Several new posts are up - complete with pictures! (you should know the link by now...if you don't its in the sidebar)

Dialtone TRAILER

The Dialtone Trailer and working Website are now LIVE! Check it out!

Widow's Might BTS

Filming has begun, checkout the BTS clips at the movie blog. (see sidebar) They are filming this one on the RED camera and it's looking good ;)

From the West Coast

Sorry for the long delay in blog posts but our family has been traveling to CA for a home school conference. We actually left a week early and stopped to see the Grand Canyon, drove through L.A. to see relatives, toured San Fransisco with more relatives, visited Yosemite and we finally arrived in Sacramento today!

California has some really beautiful scenery, I'll try to upload some pictures in the not-too-distant future :)

We will back back in the great state of Oklahoma July 9th (that's the schedule anyway)

Movie Updates

"Pilgrim's Progress"
Check out their new trailer and new website design.

"No Greater Love"
They also have a new trailer! Looks like quite an interesting story.

"The Penny"
Another feature film from Filmweavers is now in pre-production.

"Bringing up Bobby"
"Untitled Christian Comedy" from Glowing Nose now has a REAL name!

Widow's Might

John Moore's crew has been on a location scouting expedition for a western town. Check their blog to see what they found - note: their blog post is narrated by Gator!

Pendragon Filming 7

Wow, it's been a while since I've updated. This past week we spent several nights filming the final sword fight in MI. Because of the recent rains the "swamp" we were shooting in ended up a mud pit, it was quite an adventure :) Nevertheless, I think we came out with some decent footage.

Thursday was an all night shoot and we left for MO on Friday....so....all the packing still had to be done Friday morning :) Well...we were groggily hauling the heavy equipment out of the "swamp" when we received a phone call that a hail storm would be upon us in 20min!! We began running the heavy equipment up to the house. Fortunately it only rained and really not all that much but we still managed to get us and a lot of props wet :D

Finally we made it to MO..err...IL actually but we are filming in MO. Saturday we spent at the set (an old French fort site) cleaning up by cutting fallen limbs, picking weeds, sweeping, weed eating, hauling brush and picking more weeds. Good ol' hard work :)

Today I worked on finishing the edit of footage that we already have that is supposed to go with what we shoot this week. It's not looking too bad :) If you happen to think of the project this week, please take time to pray that we will be able to finish the scenes that we need to get this week!

I hope everyone out there is doing well!