Moving the Blog

Hey everyone! We just updated MovieMakers.ca and will also be moving the blog there. So from now on news about Entrusted With Arrows will be posted on the new MovieMakers Blog.

Once again, thank you for all your support!


New Blog: http://www.moviemakers.ca/blog/?cat=29

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Dallas

Pre-Orders now being accepted!

We are now accepting pre-orders for Entrusted With Arrows, the DVDs will be shipping on June 1st. Pre-order your copy now: http://www.entrustedwitharrows.com/dvd.html

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Dallas

New Teaser Trailer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4amHK3uSEuM
http://www.vimeo.com/11437143
Tangle coming
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=390533817679


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Dallas

Composer Announcement1

We are very pleased to announce Andre Forbes as the composer of the original score for Entrusted With Arrows.  Jurgen Beck needed to step back from his commitment as composer due to his wife's health challenges. Please continue to pray for Shawn's full recovery from her cancer treatments.  Jurgen is now Executive Music Producer, acting as director and mentor for Andre.  Andre was chosen as composer in early March due in large part to the excellent job he did scoring our trailers.  Since that time he has been producing excellent music for the film, which is a joy to listen to.  We can't wait to share it with the world on June 1st! Now we have the talent of two excellent composer collaborating for the success of our film.  What a blessing for us all. Check out Andre Forbes' work at  http://www.MusicManDre.com.

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Greg

Entrusted With Arrows .com has arrived!

http://www.entrustedwitharrows.com/

A bit late but here it is, as promised, more big announcements! Please take a gander and let us know what you think! :D

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Dallas

Entrusted With Arrows Teaser Trailer!

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Tangle:


Please become a fan on facebook!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Entrusted-With-Arrows/110527638982215

New Face Book Page

 First Big news of the week! We have a new Face Book Page, please join it and help us spread the word! I believe we need to aim for at leas 1,000 fans, that is a big number right now, but with a little help it could be achieved.
 Thanks so much for all your support so far, please keep praying for us and the project, we want to finish strong!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Entrusted-With-Arrows/110527638982215?v=wall&ref=nf

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Dallas

Look for big news and updates this week!

Word on the street is that we have lots of news and updates just itching to be announced this week, so keep your ear to the ground! (Could we finally be releasing a trailer?!?!?)

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Dallas

Jost's New Album!

Josts are one of the families featured in our documentary, they have just put out a new Album! Check it out, see if their tour will take them to your aria! We have the privilege of t aping a live privet performance for the documentary, it is relay good stuff! (listening to our copy that just arrived today!)

http://www.josties.com/

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Dallas

Working on Trailers

Dallas is busy putting together a few trailers for Entrusted With Arrows. He has sent a teaser trailer to Andre Forbes, who has offered to compose the music for our trailers! Thanks, Andre!

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Greg

Loose Ends

The locked version is in the hands of our composer, Jurgen Beck. Please pray for Jurgen's wife, Shawn, as she is now recovering from surgery for breast cancer and for creativity and wisdom for Jurgen as he composes the score.
We now have a few other items to take care of.  We are refining all the text portions of the film, which is relatively easy.  One of the most difficult jobs is "cleaning sound."  One of our interviews had an air conditioner running in the background, which gives a very loud hum.  When cutting in and out between others' interviews this hum is very noticeable, so we are taking on the job of removing it.  This is a very difficult process and usually leaves an unnatural vocal tract.  I think of it as an icy sound with lots of pops and other artifacts.  Others liken it to recording in a glass bottle. We need prayer on this one!  We are also working on the special features and trailers.  The special features will include a full interview for each family.  This will be full of the wisdom that had to be edited out of the main feature, so I'm hoping people will take the time to watch these!

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Greg

Locked!

Yes!  We have finished editing and have sent our locked version to our composer, Jurgen Beck, for the score. A locked version is basically a promise to the composer that we will not tinker with any of the time code, so that he can confidently do his work.  Dallas still has a small amount of work to do with the graphics and text, but this won't change the timing of what we sent to Jurgen.  Next is work on a trailer and special features.  I am working on the script of our next mini-project, an educational film about the definition of urban and rural. We have a goal of pre-production, filming and post in one week.  We'll see!  We are also brainstorming for a new major project. Our goal is to be increasingly time efficient!

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Greg

Narration is Done

Last week we recorded the final take of our "readers."  Dustin's good friend, Jason Buzzard, has a nice deep, resonant voice and did a really nice job of reading the male voice.  Shauna (my wife, Dallas' mom) did the female voice.  Throughout the film there are quotes from the web, books and scripture.  Their job was to put voice to the text as the viewer reads it. Thank you Jason and Shauna!  I wish we had taken a photo of your recording sessions!

We also found a fairly major mistake in time to correct it.  One piece of the host's narration was in the wrong place and the piece that was supposed to be there was never recorded!  It was good to find this in time to correct it.  We had a mini-taping session in the backyard in front of the greenscreen, which enabled us to put me (the "host") in the downtown setting where the rest of the narration takes place.  We did it outdoors to have the same lighting as the sun shone in my eyes, making me squint. :0) Fortunately, it was only a few sentences and Dallas did a great job of making it fit right in!

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Greg

Arrow Shots

Today we went out to Erdmans' farm to "shoot" Daryl "shooting." Arrows, that is. We needed a model to shoot for a silhouette of a warrior archer in the act of shooting. We found a nice outcrop of sandstone with bare trees behind. Very nice shot, I think. Dallas will be taking the footage and adapting it for the title sequence of Entrusted with Arrows. We are very close to a locked version, which we will send to Jurgen Beck for the original score.

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Greg

Holiday Videos

On monday ChristianFilmMakers.org held a 12 hour video contest. We and many of the families we had interviewed made submissions, none of us won, but the Jost's did place 6th! i thought you all might enjoy seeing the videos.

Jost's video:

Lammiman's video:

Clemons' video:

Munger's video:

To see all the entries click here: http://www.christianfilmmakers.org/contest/2009-12/
Marry Christmass and happy new year!

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Dallas