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A pictorial account of our set construction During the cold, damp winter months, we spent our days building interior sets in the pole building. (December, 2019) By the end of December, the first floor was roughly finished and the Golden Barrel Inn, mayor's office, and CDF hideout on the second floor were framed and sheeted. (Below: CDF hideout to the left side of the stairs on the second story, mayor's office to the right) We saved a back corner for a workout room. :) Pictured below: The CDF hideout and Golden Barrel Inn shared the north side of our second...

It's been said that blessings and trials often run on parallel tracks, and usually arrive about the same time. That pretty well sums up the filming of Return to New Haven... Blessings Having two movies under our belt was a great advantage. What we learned through trial and error on Runner and Defense gave us more confidence to jump in this time without feeling quite so much like we were in the dark!   In addition, the six years between Defense and Return made a big difference in the maturity and skills of our kids. They had great ideas to...

The adventure continues...The behind-the-scenes story of the Return to New Haven

One of our “new” scenes was the final Henry/Clyde confrontation – a unique and challenging one for Joel and Addison, requiring Addison to fight himself. As if that wasn’t difficult enough, we were given a new obstacle to overcome…     Just as we were ready to shoot the final Henry/Clyde scene, Add lost one of his top front teeth...needless to say, a very noticeable change. Of all times! In desperation, Joel stopped at the drugstore on the way out to shoot and bought some Fix-o-Dent to glue the tooth back in. At first we were hopeful it would do...

Journal excerpt October, 2008 …We have continued to see the Lord’s faithfulness to us over the past two weeks…It seems we go in “good week, bad week” cycles, but I guess we can’t expect smooth sailing all the time…    Two weeks ago, we filmed the City of Refuge ending scene. The weather was idyllic that day. As we were shooting Sam’s crossing the bridge, the sun began to set, casting a beautiful warm glow over the village. It was perfect!    We also recorded the scene with Ike and the crashed rocket car. Tate was a trooper – he really...