We have been continuing to write and prepare for our project, which currently has the working title of “Callahan and Sons”. The students have done a good job with the story line, with us working as a team to hash out inconsistencies.  We will move into storyboarding soon, and set up to film-locations, props, and costumes.

We should be able to cast this, and begin filming in March.

As a class, we decided to go ahead and re-write a parable for our Spring Project. Inasmuch as I was hoping to have an original story from the students, I believe I have learned the lesson as the teacher to slot more time for this! We did have a working story in December, and I was very pleased with the students input and storylines, but I found the technical sides of it (location, time to film, the need for more actors than we had-even after a casting call to the co-op) to be too much of a challenge by mid-December. If I had the student working on the story earlier in the year, at the same time we had been studying films, then I think I would have been able to hash out these details better. Lesson learned for me, we will start earlier next year.

We chose the parable from Luke 20:9-18-the parable of the bad tenants. The students are doing a great job of pulling this into our century, and we are working out the dialog. More later on the script, story line, and film locations.

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