Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 9:17 pm on Dec. 31, 2007.
Shannon and Sara invite you to enter Burns Family Studio’s Pendragon Art Contest! Check back February 11, 2008 to see the entries.
• First place winner will receive an autographed photograph of a main character of his choice (Artos, Cadeyrn, or Wenneveria)
• Entries should depict the Pendragon Project in some way
• Any contestant up to 18 years of age may enter
• Each contestant may submit a maximum of two entries
• Any two-dimensional form of art is permitted (no photography entries)
• Art should be submitted by email to burnsfmly@aol.com OR by mail to the following address:
Pendragon Art Contest co/
The Burns Family
4818 Heather Lane
Bethalto, IL 62010
• All entries must include the contestant’s full name, age, mailing address, and valid email address
•Entries MUST be received by February 10, 2008
•No art work will be returned, and we reserve the right to use all art work in any form
* Art considered inappropriate will be disqualified
Posted by saraburns at 7:44 pm on Dec. 20, 2007.
Praise the Lord! The editing team was able to complete the rough edit on time. Saturday afternoon, Marilyn and Aaron flew into St. Louis. That evening, we all sat down for the first viewing of the rough edit. Although this edit is far from final, watching it was a big milestone for all of us. Now that the rough edit is done, we can begin making plans to finish the filming. Monday morning, Chad, Nick, Aaron, Marilyn, and Ethan went through the rough edit in detail and discussed which scenes might need to be re-done and what scenes need to be added. Ethan flew back to New York Monday evening, and since then “the council” (Chad, Nick, Aaron, and Marilyn) has been discussing plans and strategies for finishing then film.
Posted by saraburns at 2:15 pm on Dec. 14, 2007.
Wednesday night, the Leddens arrived at “Southern Command,” our house in Saint Louis. Last night was spent catching up with old friends and watching footage.
On Thursday morning, Dusty, Morgan, and Eponine left, but Ethan stayed to help with the push to finish the rough edit. At present, Nick says it would take Chad and him two weeks to finish it. The catch is, it must be done by Saturday night since our group needs to make some important decisions based on the rough edit. Please pray that God will give the three editors the strength to meet this critical deadline, and that the hardware they are using will remain healthy and function correctly.
Eponine Ledden
Watching footage
Chad and Ethan editing
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 3:28 pm on Dec. 6, 2007.
Over Thanksgiving week, the editing team kicked the rough edit into high gear. For the first week, Nick and Chad worked the “swing shift”—they began work at midnight and finished about six a.m. everyday. This allowed them to work without distraction. They were able to accomplish a lot, and by the end of Thanksgiving break, Act I was completed. The pace has slacked a bit now, but next week when school ends, things will pick up again. Currently we have over fifty percent of the rough edit completed.
Wenneveria in the Arfonian horse barns.
Act 2 scene11
Artos pauses to reflect
Act2
A page of scripture
Act 2 scene 5
Posted by saraburns at 5:02 pm on Nov. 7, 2007.
Due to computer failures this post had to be delayed. Sorry!
Written by Burns Family Studios and edited by Sara
Thursday night was the grand opening to the conference. About halfway through this event the Pendragon trailer was premiered! Mr. Phillips gave us a nice introduction and folks seemed to really enjoy watching it.
The Pendragon trailer being premiered in the cavernous Lila Kockrell Theatre. (Sorry the pic is so dark, it’s a huge auditorium)
The SAICFF festival is a great place to meet other filmmakers and share ideas. With about 1200 people in attendance there were a lot of old and new friends to meet.
Chad and Isaac Botkin discussing distribution.
Dinner with Nathan Bluedorn, (the first face visible on right)
We had dinner with Kristina and Richard Ramsey, (Richard pictured center), makers of last year’s big winner, The Oath of Desormeau - to exchange news about our projects.
Meeting up with Friends….
David Thompson, pro-life film advocate and awesome volunteer for Pendragon, talks with Chad.
We had a chance to catch up with our friends Dusty and Ethan Ledden, and discuss our 5 year plan to take over the world. (Actually, that’s a joke; it’s a 10 year plan.)
Posted by saraburns at 9:26 am on Oct. 24, 2007.
We are excited to announce that our trailer is going to be premiered at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival!! This festival is designed to help and encourage Christian filmmakers. Many other filmmakers will be in attendance; as such, this will be a great place to get our name out. We are so thankful for this wonderful opportunity! Right now we are in the car on our way down to the festival, stay tuned…
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 8:01 pm on Oct. 3, 2007.
After an awesome summer of full-time movie making, most of us have to go back to normal life. We are done filming until December or possibly spring 2008, and next summer we plan to complete all the filming. The Northern Burns are cleaning their house! (it’s no small task scrubbing Saxon dirt off the floors!)
These are the messy results of having a movie made at your house:
Nick is the head editor, but Chad, Ethan and Kyle are also working on post-production.
Nick at work
We filmed over fifty hours of footage this summer, and presently the editors are working on compiling a trailer, which we hope to release within the month. Please check back for updates.
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 10:35 pm on Aug. 24, 2007.
Cast and crew were on sight by 7:30 this morning. We had horses again today, many thanks to the Tittsworth family for the use of them.
Cadeyrn with his horse
Filming Cadeyrn and his archers
Artos
Britsh archers
Wenneveria holding the Pendragon banner
After lunch, it began to pour. Praise the Lord! We had been praying for rain, and God provided it. It fit the scene perfectly. Wet hair and costumes just put the finishing touch on the whole thing.
Artos rallies his men
Hengest
The rain let up after we finished that scene. At that point everyone moved down to the bottom of the hill to the swamp, where we finished the day by filming a swamp battle.
The swamp
The battle begins
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 4:27 pm on Aug. 21, 2007.
This past week was mainly focused on one scene, the battle at the beginning of the movie. This battle is fought during the night, so we stayed up several nights to film. Wednesday night we filmed some exploding catapult shots. (We went to bed at 8:30 a.m.)
The catapult that we built
Thursday night we filmed the sword fight between Hengest and Justinian. Quinlain was Hengest’s stunt double for the fight. During the fight Quinlain accidentally hit Justinian right above the eye with his fake axe. After a brief moment of panic, Justinian said that he would leave the cut until we finished filming, because it added to the scene. We went to bed early, at 4:00 a.m.!
Chad giving instructions to Justinian and Hengest.
Friday was the second most important filming day of the movie. Over 130 people were at our house throughout the day! In the afternoon, we filmed the first part of this scene, where the villagers are preparing for the coming attack. We had some great extras! We also a bunch of animals in the village. It looked quite realistic.
Chad directing
The big picture on set
One of the village animals
Some of our great extras
Watching the monitor
Adria, Artos’s sister
After dark, we filmed the attack scene, where the villagers are attempting to defend themselves against the Saxons. The Saxons broke down the door using their battering ram. We filmed all night and into the early morning, finally crashing in our beds around 9:00 a.m.!
Hengest with one of his henchmen
Artos being captured and taken into slavery
Hengest taking loot from the village
Monday night, we filmed a quick shot of one of our houses exploding when a Saxon fire bomb hits it.
The house exploding
The house after the explosion
Sara and Shannon (your authors)
Posted by Shannon and Sara Burns at 1:33 pm on Aug. 16, 2007.
Yesterday we filmed some lighthearted scenes with Artos and his sister. Rebecca Wixom played his little sister, Adria and she did a great job! She really looks like she could have been Aaron’s sister.
Artos waiting for his cue
Chad watching the monitor
Rebecca (Adria)
Adria holding a village chicken
Artos with his sister Adria
We moved from the field to the hillfort after dark and filmed a more intense scene. Rebecca was awesome.
Aaron and Adria with Nick
Rebecca
Chad with Adria
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