Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 12:53 pm on Nov. 20, 2008.
From the Director:
Hello Everyone –
It’s Nov 20th but the DVD is not on sale. We are very sorry for the inconvenience this has caused some of you who showed up to purchase Pendragon this morning. Unfortunately due to delays in ironing out issues with our website and business we are waiting 5 days till Nov 25th to do the online release. We will still be offering the free signatures upon request (which means there will be a check box option) for orders that we receive before product arrives in the first week of December.
In other exciting news:
*The new video clip “Renewed Hope” has been posted on the front page.
*We have had a significant “nibble” from a major distributor…
See you back here on the 25th to order Pendragon!
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 7:37 pm on Nov. 15, 2008.
Posted by Chad
Hi folks,
Today was a red letter day for Pendragon. We finished the DVD and shipped it off to replicators in California… well almost… I got to the post office two minutes before closing, but in my haste I had forgotten my wallet… grrr. So it will actually ship tomorrow… but it’s in the package and done! Hooray!
Now for the bad news… on the way home from the disappointing trip to the post office the muffler came undone on the van…. grrr.
And now for the really bad news… we spend an extra week making the sound on Pendragon absolutely fantastic. Unfortunately this means that we won’t be able to ship DVDs on Nov 20.
Nothing in the world can make up for the disappointment of not getting your Pendragon DVD immediately. To take the sting off, we are going to have a main actor autograph all disks (upon request) that are sold between November 20th and the date we receive the DVDs from the replicators. So if you want a signed copy, hurry up and order before we take deliveries in the first days of December!
Unfinished cover art.
The DVD itself will be fun to have and make a great Christmas present. It will include…
* 1 hour, 57 minutes of inspiring action and adventure.
* An attractive main menu with a video and music background
* Sixteen chapters spread across four menus, each with their own background music
* Limited “Extras”
-A hastily filmed word from the director
-Two of our many deleted scenes
-A two minute picture slide show and…
-A short two minutes of ‘raw’ BTS
*A dual layer disk (meaning you’re getting the best possible video quality – important for an action film like Pendragon!)
*A very attractive full color outer jacket designed by the Art Director himself.
The 5-8 chapter select menu.
Also, those who donated or pre-ordered will be getting a classy Limited Edition version of the case which will be a special thank you from us, and should be fun to lend to friends who will invariably ask how you got it…
In the next months we hope to release several more BTS videos on the website – but we simply didn’t have time to do more for the DVD.
So a lot of exciting stuff coming soon – stay tuned!
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 2:00 am on Nov. 13, 2008.
Last night we were thrilled to have the first public screening of Pendragon at Oakland University. After three and a half years of intense work, we were excited to see this film come to life. “When we started, there was no guarantee that this film would reach completion,” Chad said last night. We had a full house with roughly three hundred people in attendance. The audiences’ responses were very supportive. In the middle of the project there were rough times when the light at the end of the tunnel went out, but it was during those times that we saw God working the most. It was so incredible to think that the Lord brought the project this far. “What God calls us to do He gives us the grace to accomplish.”
Special thanks to Oakland University and the Grizzdance for hosting this screening and providing all the refreshments.
Over 250 people attended
The main cast on stage
Many thanks to Oakland University and the Grizzdance. Coordinator Sean Bono did a fantastic job of putting the showing together.
The main four hosting a Q and A panel afterwards
Marilyn and Kimmy Fisher
Nick’s fan base
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 8:46 am on Nov. 4, 2008.
From all of us on the Pendragon team – THANK YOU for your prayers and support!!! We are happy to inform you that we made the SAICFF submission deadline of Nov 1. It would have been a quiet ending for the production phase of Pendragon, but major 11th hour computer problems kept us in prayer right up to the last… It seems that the Lord wanted to remind us again that He was the one who pulled this together.
The St. Louis site team relaxes after shipping the DVD to SAICFF Saturday night.
We are currently working on a final audio mix and preparing the DVD for replication – and re-vamping the website. Check back regularly for the new video clips coming out in the run-up to the DVD release.
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 11:38 pm on Nov. 2, 2008.
We are feverishly working to finish the sound on Pendragon. It is really coming together very nicely and I think a lot of folks will be quite pleased with the overall effect. It is so exciting to see all the hard work of creating the visuals coming alive with the addition of good sound. We have been so blessed to find great and talented friends to help out on this key aspect.
The Morris twins, Caleb and Daniel, have been orchestrating some fantastic battle music for Pendragon. Last night I drove over to their house (a 2 hour jaunt from Tulsa) to pick up several finished cues. The family of 13 children tried to wait up, but I was delayed and did not arrive until after midnight and most of them had fallen asleep on the floor and been carried to bed 
It was great to meet the part of the family still awake. It was encouraging to meet another family in yet another part of the country that has been so involved in the project.
During production we have always tried to use what was available to get the job done – and I was impressed to discover that the M’s studio is a converted steal shipping container all tricked out with the electronics necessary to do top notch recording and midi mixing.
