Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 2:18 am on Jul. 23, 2008.
Sunday afternoon we picked JC up from the St. Louis airport. He is here to help with the push to complete the final rough edit on schedule. The rough edit has to be completed in two weeks. Please keep the editors in your prayers. They have been experiencing technical difficulties which are proving to be very time-consuming.
Meanwhile, at the Northern Burns house, Marilyn and Aaron have been busy on the soundtrack. As the editors finish a scene, they send it on to the composers. Aaron and Marilyn are studying orchestration and continuing to learn to understand the composing software. They have finally completed the majority of the preparation work, and are beginning to compose themes.
The sound studio
Composing music for a scene.
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 2:05 pm on Jul. 14, 2008.
This past weekend we went back to Indiana to film a horse chase scene. Since we were in Indiana, Aaron was once again able to ride Prince. The actors are always excited to be working with horses, but Prince is Artos’s favorite mount. He had such spirit during the chase scene.
Artos astride Prince
One of Artos’s pursuers.
As the crew looks on, Artos is hotly pursued.
Lisa holds a horse between takes. The Atherton family provided dinner and hospitality for our crew—what a blessing! On Saturday, we were rained out in the morning, but God was gracious and by early afternoon, the sun was shining.
Nick checks the shot list.
Eponine tries on a new pair of shades.
Chad, Kyle, and Dusty review the footage on location.
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 3:27 pm on Jul. 9, 2008.
Over the last few days, we have been back in
Michigan. On Thursday night we filmed down at the set where we filmed “Hard Decisions.” Oddly, the weather was freezing.
Rebecca and Marilyn’s costumes were not very warm, so between each take, they put on wool coats.
Besides one small scene, we are not doing any daytime filming on this trip. Our schedule is very “unusual.” We get up around 2:30 PM and eat first breakfast. Then, after working on set construction and film prep for several hours, we have elevensies (at 8:30), after which we start filming at dark. In the middle of the night (roughly 12:30), we bring a bedlunch out to the crew, which they eat during a short break. When filming wraps up at dawn, we make a second breakfast.
Aunt Tracey making grilled fish for elevensies.
Chad compared our meal schedule to that of the lumberjacks.
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 12:16 pm on Jul. 4, 2008.
Happy Independence Day!!!
As we celebrated our country’s birthday, our crew took time off to attend a patriotic picnic.
The muffin girls were busy in the kitchen whipping up a festive dessert—berry cheesecake.
