Sunday, April 20, 2014

"The Christmas Story" - and Behind-the-Scenes Photos


Our next "Young Movie Makers" production - also made in 2010 - we collaborated with some young friends and put together a Christmas story in August. I was still new to movie making and was amazed at how much time it takes to edit a five minute movie (literally hours!). 

Here are a some behind-the-scenes pictures! We were baby-sitting these children for the day and decided to make a movie. It took us about an hour to come up with a story, then we set about making the props - Christmas decorations.


We needed to cover our very-full-of-messages marker board, in front of which would be our main scene. So we pulled out the aisle runner from my sister's wedding...


...and colored a big "Merry Christmas" on it.




Hanging up the sign


Hannah tracing gingerbread men.


We wanted to be somewhat 1800s authentic, so we used flour and water paste to glue the paper chain together.


Popcorn chain



Getting ready to film the first scene!

In the midst of hours of editing.

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