We have posted this here, from You Tube. It was necessary to put it into two parts, because it is more than ten minutes long (it is about 14 minutes long total). Enjoy!

Part 1

Here is the second part, posted below the first. Enjoy!

Part 2

Our two sisters-Anna, on the left, played the Prodigal, and Cori played the older sister. It was raining lightly that day, and cool.

One of our students played a heckler on the street, making fun of the prodigal’s misfortunes.

Nathan was our cinematographer. Filming a scene.
I am in the green shirt, next to Nathan, at the bottom. Starting clockwise at the top we have Keith (the father), Anna (the prodigal), Jesse (a friend of the prodigal’s), and Cori (the older sister). Keith has done local acting, and was just amazing in his part.

Consulting the script, to stay consistent-clockwise from the young man in the red shirt: Timothy, Keith, Jesse, Anna, Cori.

Keith taking the casual approach to his character. During the filming of this scene, his character is supposed to be on the phone, but his cell phone did actually ring during filming. We thought that was pretty funny.

That’s it on the photos. :)

We have finished our movie about the prodigal son, and titled it “All I Have”. The title came from what the father says to the daughter at the end of the parable, “All I have is yours…”. This is based on the parable in Luke 15:11-32. We wanted to approach this story from a modern angle, and also changed the characters to daughters, instead of sons.

We had fun filming the movie in our town, and also in another city nearby. The students did really well, and we are currently waiting for the final edit to come back from three students. There were a few things we did on this project, which I am going to post here, as I thought it might be interesting or helpful for those who might want to make their own movies.

• We are definately on a limited budget, using a family video camera, but still found it possible to make a movie to reflect the gospel. The quality of a couple of scenes is low, but overall, we were pleased with the result.
• We filmed this all in three days.
• We used Celtx for writing the script. It can be found online for free.
• We edited in Windows Movie Maker.
• We sent the movie to be edited home with three different students. This really left
• room for each student to choose the music, choose which angles in which scenes to use, and how to tell the story. There were very creative changes each student brought, for example:
  • one student used classical music, whereas another one chose music from a contemporary movie
  • one student had better access to sound effects, which added a different dimension than the others
  • one student inverted the film image, so the shots looked more varying and more realistic (meaning, the shots from our home, did not look like our home, but like somewhere else)

We have had a lot of fun, with a few challenges. As I mentioned before, we are making every effort to post this from You Tube, and will do it as soon as we can. Thanks again for stopping by!