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 10.07
106 used & new available from USD 1.49

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.

As a result of all this, we ended up with the impression that our story is good, but we need to sit down and work on our characters before we start scripting. That’s where the project stands at this point.

One last mysterious note on the project: We tossed around some title ideas, and though nothing positive has materialized yet, we may have a potential working title.

One last note from me: I’ve just requested from the library a few good-looking books on various aspects of filmmaking. Perhaps there will be some reviews soon.