Teamwork Importance in Your Production

Behind our creativity for entertainment, lies our company's mission: to turn your mission statement into a short motion picture. 

Jerod Powers of Faith For Freedom, a non-profit organization that shows former inmates how to live a life free of crime by means of farming, and faith-based rehab programs, wants to reduce the number of recidivism, and help these men build a solid relationship with their Maker, giving back to their community.

Our full-length feature in progress entails the life story of Mr. Powers, and how when the Son (meaning Jesus Christ) sets you free, you are free indeed. By competing in this year's 168 Film, we will accomplish two things: awareness of the project in progress, and generate financial sponsorship.

At times, you may experience opposition in production.I can list just a few that happened in ours, while filming for 168: We witnessed an actual sting happening across the street of our set. One of the sets got broken into and personal properties were stolen. Needless to say, what we experienced, could have made us quit. 

But the one thing that helps in times, like these, is having a committed team. Why? For multiple reasons:

1.) These team players will help improve the quality of your production. 

(i.e. The RAID scene in the film was going to be prepared by an actual SWAT team. But, they weren't able to make it at the very last minute. My producer jumped in and decided to play the part of a SWAT, with no gun and no back up partner. As one of our actors, John Harrett, saw the poor performance, he went to get a hold of his guns and costumes to hype up the scene and direct the scene ten times better than what it was. The total use for the scene was 7-secs, but well worth the effort.)

2.) Find a group of motivated and driven people, who will not take "no" for an answer. 

(i.e. Jerod never gave up in finding a child to play the part of the boy, Elmo. "Even if we have to go to the ghettos to find one, we will," Jerod said. By the time 10:30 AM hit on the first day of production, we had our child star.)

3.) These people will work as long as you need them to. 

(i.e. Our first shift lasted about 13 hours long. Even though we didn't have to do this, as tired as we all were, my friend, Walker Ellison stayed an extra hour to help me put the house -the set- back in order.)

Take a look at our 1-min teaser!

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Definitely, a big "THANKS" to:
Heather Ricks for her performance and her help as production assistant 
Jonathan Cordell for the motion graphics
Joseph Mendum for his talent in composing music