We have to show off the super talents of our daughter. Who would ever think that a toddler would be able to whistle?
Eat your heart out Andy Griffith!
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Well, last night I realized that I didn’t have a picture of the week for this week. Undeterred I went outside this morning and took pictures of the trees and the ice outside our condo. Normally I would say that these are too common and I wouldn’t want to post them, but after playing with the pictures and flipping them into negatives I managed to come up with a picture of the week I feel is mostly worthy. I can’t let our viewers down.
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Starring:
Ben Thomas
David White
Zach Lonsdale
Austin Nichols
Directed by Dallas Golden
Because Rebecca has already posted about our day of filming, I don’t know how much more you want to hear about behind the scenes, but I’m going to write about it anyway.
We had a concept that we were going to go out and film, but we ran into a major obstacle of the cold weather and the ice outside. After a long lunch of brain-storming on a new idea, we went over to D.I. to see if we could find something to use as a prop to inspire a new story idea. Zach and I found a broken TV they were trying to sell for parts and I fell in love with the TV because there was something about it that demanded our sending a projectile through the screen. Thus the basis of our story was born. We had to somehow create a need to destroy the TV.  David found a hat that he wanted to use as a TV technician, so we found our need for a TV repairman.  After that we threw everybody else in to satisfy the film requirements of making a sacrifice to the downtrodden by Ben sacrificing his TV money to those who needed it more than he did.
Filming began and we were off to film our outdoor scenes before the sun went down. Macey’s was gracious enough to allow us to film in their parking lot. Zach and Austin were great. About the time we ran out of sunlight, we finished filming our last shot outside. There were a couple more shots I would like to have gotten, but they weren’t essential so they were easily skipped over. We headed back to our condo where we made an absolute mess of the house by moving the furniture around and we banished Rebecca and Brooke to the bedroom to quietly watch Wall-e.
Editing was the hardest part because even though it was fairly early in the evening, it felt like it was midnight. I was also desperately needing to get to bed because I had to be up the next morning at 4:30. The editing was finished at around 3:00 and I dropped in bed only to wake up long before I wanted to.
If you are having problems viewing the video, you can watch it on YouTube HERE
If you already saw the picture of the week and were so excited that you were calling all your friends to come look at the picture, I’m sorry, I remembered that I already had some pictures already planned specifically for today. I’ll post that one some other time.
This week’s picture of the week is in honor of Sarah and Emma who are celebrating their birthdays today.
Happy Birthday Sarah and Emma!
“Ben’s TV” – a striking short comedy with heart to match.
Coming soon to a theater near you! Mark your calendar for Thursday, January 22, 2009, 7:00 at the Scera Movie Theater in Orem. Get your tickets early! Tickets might be going fast. Blog release to shortly follow.
Starring:
Ben Thomas as Ben
David White as Super G
Zach Lonsdale as Zach
Austin Nichols as Austin Dew
Directed by Dallas Golden
