Okay, bad news first. We’ve pretty much decided that reshooting our DragonSpell trailer and Rebekah’s neat idea are going to be put on hold for a future time. We’re not abandoning them by any means. We just needed to focus on other projects.

But wait! There’s good news! Ruth and I have finished the Books & Things seminar for Simply Charlotte Mason. We’re excited and very relieved.

Speaking of Simply Charlotte Mason, we’re mostly planning to shoot another video for them in the coming week.

And the Incredibooks Read-a-Thon video is still on the list of things to do. We just need to sit down and figure it all out.

Best news (in my opinion): Rebekah is hard at work on a script we’ve been working on since November. She stunned me yesterday with a page (filled in small handwriting) of backstory research. I’ve been told that there’s more to come.

I’m getting pretty excited about this one. Once we have a better working title, I might do a post with a little more info. For now, I’ll leave you wondering.

Wait a second! I do have some things to tell you!

In my last post, I mentioned that we were planning on entering a film contest. We’ve pulled back, looked at our schedules, and figured out that we won’t be able to do it. Maybe next time.

However, Ruth and I are practically done with the seminar for Simply Charlotte Mason. We have only DVD menus left and we’re saving those for next week when we can work on them in the same room.

As a little bit of a teaser for anybody who also reads our posts on Incredibooks… We’re planning on shooting a video for the annual summer Read-a-Thon sometime in the next couple of weeks. All I’m saying is that this one is more epic than last year’s.

We’re also planning on shooting a little something that Rebekah came up with. This is a pretty exciting idea that we’re hoping will be something we can sell. More on that later if it becomes a reality, I suppose.

And we’d also like to reshoot our long-neglected DragonSpell teaser. Some of the video didn’t turn out the way we liked, and we’ll have more time to plan. So we’re pinning that as a definite possibility. (In fact as I’m typing this post, Rebekah is getting distracted looking at wigs…)

Lots going on with us! Hopefully we’ll be able to post some photos of the behind-the-scenes of shooting some of these projects. Stay tuned!

We recorded this over the Internet between two states, so please excuse any garbled audio or quiet points. Turn down the lights, crank up the sound, grab some popcorn, and enjoy the commentary!

And now that you’ve finished watching it, what’d you think? Leave a comment and tell us!

We’ve been discussing the idea and have decided that it would be a great chance to share some of the fun stories from production. We have also learned a lot since making iSundae II, and we think this will be a way to share some insights into what we would do differently now.

So keep an eye out for the iSundae II commentary. It’s coming soon!

By the way, we do realize that the whites are a little hot in this shot (my fault!). The rest of our footage turned out much better.

DragonSpell (Dragon Keepers Chronicles, Book 1) (Paperback)
by Donita K. Paul
ISBN: 1578568234

Price: USD 11.89
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DragonSpell is our trailer project. We all love Donita K. Paul’s books, and this one is the first in a series, so it was a logical choice.

Our goal here is to pretend that DragonSpell is being made into a movie by us and to show what a trailer would look like if that were the case.

Although we are currently busy editing a seminar for Simply Charlotte Mason, we are half-working on our DragonSpell teaser. Stay tuned for posts on the shooting, on the props, and on the general progress of the project.

We don’t have much time left before the Northern branch of Phantom Moose heads back home, but we think we’ll be able to pull it off.

And no, we’re still not going to say what book we’re doing. But we’ll drop some hints both here and in our new About Us page photo.

Rebekah is hard at work on the needed props and costumes as I type.

Yesterday, Ruth and I did a bit of location scouting and found a nice creek that will work perfectly.

Well, almost perfectly.

We’ve also been working on a new idea. Actually, we’ve tossed around a lot of things, but we have a neat story that we’re really excited about.

In the last post, I left you wondering what we’d be doing in November. We didn’t know ourselves, really.

That’s changed. We are now planning on shooting a trailer for one of our favorite books. This is something we’re really excited about. Perhaps we’ll post some photos from the shoot and let you guess which book!

Plus, while we’re all together in November, we plan on discussing another interesting idea. No details on that one yet, but maybe you’ll get to hear some later.

Well, at the very least, we’re doing some projects for Simply Charlotte Mason in November. Those will be fun and challenging. We’re hoping to push the quality up from previous attempts.

What else? We were working on a short, but the script called for a couple of actors we didn’t have. So we tossed that out, and now, bringing back a catchphrase from the iSundae II days, we are working on short, fun projects. And no, we can’t tell you much about them, because we’ve brainstormed a whole page of ideas and we have no idea which one(s) we’ll pick.