TheOneCubed

Last weekend I had the awesome opportunity to work with some very talented folks from my church on filming for this year’s Christmas program, Lost in the Mountains Rescue. Last Saturday we rented out one of the SAS studios for 10 hrs and setup and filmed non-stop for most of the day.

We then continued the round of excitement by visiting New Hope Fire Station in Wendell, NC (just north of Raleigh) where one of our tech team guys, Phil, is a fire fighter. He and some of his boys pulled out some fire trucks, suited up and let us film to add even more realism to our shoot. Not to mention the fact that Phil fed us before we got to filming ;-).

My only regret is not getting in on this last photo but someone had to take the picture, right? Maybe some creative Photoshop work can be employed . . .

Every year my church does a very nice and well thought out Christmas program. This year will be no exception. To start off the production for this year’s program - a team from the church traveled to Snow Hill, NC about 1hr. 30 min. away from Raleigh. There we set up at a farm, but not just any farm - a farm with sheep and a farm in the middle of no where.

Now in order to film a believable shepherd scene as depicted in the bible it has to be dark. Funny thing is, cameras don’t pick up too much when it is dark. So how do you film in the dark yet have enough light to see on the tape? Big generator and lots of big lights! Thanks to some amazingly well thought out solutions, we hauled a giant generator (one of those you have to tow behind a F-350 truck) tons of lights, tons of props, lots of recording equipment, and a whole lot of excitement!

Needless to say I found the entire event a lot of fun. The most hilarious part of the night and thus the name of this post was what my good friend David Woodall was able to do with the sheep. You see sheep are stupid animals that are frightened easily. You walk towards them, they run away and when one runs, they all run. We spent a lot of time trying to corral sheep but David seemed to have a way with them - thus he got nicknamed the Sheep Whisperer.

Below are a few photos but feel free to check out more in the gallery.

A nice shot of the sheep settling down and the sun setting in the distance.

Shepherds tending their flock.

Yes we set up a small audio recording and video monitoring studio in the back of a U-Haul.