Brothers in Christ Productions

A few days ago a friend of mine sent me this. I thought I would share it. Unlike the director in this story we turned to God and let him deal with the weather. A film crew was on location deep in the desert. One day an old Indian went up to the director and said, “Tomorrow rain.” The next day it rained. A week later, the Indian went up to the director and said, “Tomorrow storm.” The next day there was a hailstorm. “This Indian is incredible,” said the director and he hired the Indian to predict the weather. However, after several successful predictions the old Indian didn’t show up for two weeks. Finally the director sent for him. “I have to shoot a big scene tomorrow,” said the director, “and I’m depending on you. What will the weather be like?” The Indian shrugged his shoulders. “Don’t know,” he said. “Radio broken .”

The last two days we have been moving closer to being able to edit the film. Yesterday we went and purchased the iMac that we will be editing on and today I got it set up. Now I wait for the editing program to get here sometime this week so that I can get that installed.

Today we ordered the editing suite that we will be using for this film project. Now we just have to wait for it to come and get the computer that we are going to use for editing before we can start.

Today, we began our short secondary photography filming session. Basically this is establishing shots and other minor shots that didn't get filmed during principle photography. Today we brought Matt Ray, who plays one of the announcers, back in to re-record a couple of lines that changed since we recorded the original lines back in April.

For those of you interested, once we begin editing towards the end of summer we plan to use the Adobe Creative Suite 6 Production Premium which is a top of the line editing suite.

With principle photography wrapping up yesterday you might be wondering what we were up to today. Today was spent resting along with organizing and beginning to put away props and equipment from filming. I also did some prep work for some secondary filming we have coming up this Friday. Be sure to continue to check back for more updates.

Principle Photography continued and concluded today at the Nashua track. We welcomed back many of the cast track runners and several other actors for at least part of the day. The Lord gifted us with beautiful weather but on the downside it was very hot and we needed to take lots of breaks to keep the actors cool. Due to stuff beyond our control I got to step in front of the camera one more time for the final two scenes of principle photography in the movie. While everyone is happy the project is done they all agree that they are going to miss each other as they all grew very close. Especially the track runners that spent the last week and a half together. One final prayer request I do have is for safe travel for our one actor that heads back up to Minnesota tomorrow. Continue to check back on the blog for new updates, even though they won't be coming a frequent now that principle photography is over.

Filming once again continued today as we wrapped up filming at the Waverly High School Track. The morning started off cool and cloudy but by the afternoon had turned to lovely sunshine and hot weather. Today's filming did see several track runners, including myself, along with a couple crew members wrapping their time on set as we prepare to finish off principle photography. However; We still managed to get the best blooper of the entire day at the shoot today. We can't wait for you to see it. Remember to check back tomorrow for another update about filming.

Filming continued today as we returned to the Waverly track for a fourth day. This day featured the final day of crowd shot shooting for the film along with filming the last races that will be at the Waverly track. The rain once again held off except for a little shower at the beginning of the filming day but that cleared off pretty quickly. God has continued to provide all the extras that we have needed. Please continue to pray that God would help send us the rest of the extras that we need. Filming will continue tomorrow with the final day at the Waverly track. Check back soon for more updates.

For anybody that has ever listened to Stephen Kendrick talk, one of the big things he talks about for any Christian movie is that they need to be in the word of God each day. On the set of "The Faith Line" we are doing this with a daily devotion and prayer. Below is a devotion and prayer from a few days ago. All the devotions were written by my grandpa. Are You Without Sin? "And such were some of you: but you are washed, you are sanctified, you are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." 1st Corinthians 6:11   In reading the video script,   I noted how many times certain characters were tempted to skip church and attend "special practice" for the track team. There were others who refused to do that. When this happens, there are times when, those, who don't skip church, develop an attitude of being better than the others. The Apostle Paul, in the above verse, reminds us that we all are sinners, so we had best be

Today we returned to the UNI track for our second and final day there filming the state track meet. We were once again blessed with a day of no rain and God sent the extras we needed for the crowd shots in the stands. This day was a lot shorter and easier than yesterday but still got those there as track runners doing a lot of running. Tomorrow we return to the Waverly track for another day of filming. However; the weather doesn't sound that promising so please pray that God would hold off the rain so that we can film everything we need including more crowd shots.

Filming continued today with the hardest day of the shoot. We started early in the morning and went to early evening. Today was the first of two days at the UNI outdoor track. We managed to avoid rain today except for some sprinkles in the late morning. Once again God provided the runners we needed. We also wrapped five cast members today. The day went very well and we got great footage. One prayer request though is that one of our extra runners pulled his hamstring today running so if you could pray for healing that would be great.