the SWORD

the sword featured near the end of the film has begun to be constructed by my awesome brother Trevor Clarke. This is the rough; he is grinding all sorts of details into it on thursday.

Locations, Locations, Locations

Flight home from Boston went well, though the first movie was Spiderman 3...

Contacted the city hall and confirmed usage of Creekside park across from Biola.

Went from there and contacted the graveyard down the street and was treated extremely well by the owners, who granted us use of there beautiful Memorial.

Excited for the shot list/schedule!

Disappointed that the Sox lost and that I couldn't make the meeting.

But that won't get me down.

Wednesday to-do's:

Talk with the Vaughns and confirm location availability
Look over meeting notes
Email more churches about sponsership
Watch the Sox beat the Angels

for realZ

ok, the movie is for real.

kasey and rochelle are on the ball... met with them last night, and you know it's a real movie when they're about.

that and the fact that i just bought 2 brand new 500 GB hard drives for storage... i believe that each one should store about 38 hours of HD, so that's just enough to have two copies of everything (methinks...)

anyway, meeting with bobo tomorrow to pore over the schedule (always an arduous task, but at least it's with a cool dude).

doubling down

we're kicking into high gear this weekend...

i'm working 25 hours at the satellite company this weekend and therefore i have plenty of time to SHOTLIST and sketch all sorts of concepts.

meeting with rochelle (and maybe kasey?) to go over the plan for her design genius.

dante rocks at writing.

lee's upping the ante these days as well.

BOBO is going to 1st AD! i'm stoked to have someone so talented and so asian to bounce my ideas off...

we have some cast and some not, but we should be fine as far as the first weekend goes!

Thoughts while my roommate is snoring

At synagogue, I sit next to the same couple every week. They're probably in their late thirties/early forties. The husband is a rather excessively rotund gentleman -- very, very large.
Throughout the Torah study every week, he holds her hand. They're always holding hands, and whispering little comments to one another. I say hi to them every week, and we hold petty little conversations, but their focus never extends too far beyond the scope of each other's interest.

I observe them and I wonder; what force on earth could possibly keep them this close-knit? What type of love is this? How could this have come to be that this odd couple is so profoundly attached to one another?

As we make this film, (and admittedly, it is a bleak film for the most part) I am constantly needing to remind myself what is at the core of our film. The answer is the same answer as to why the couple is so intensely attached to one another.

Paul states that three ideas remain forever, and are of utmost importance: faith, hope, and love. "But the greatest of these are love." Faith and hope are logical to me. For all intensive purposes, they are very pragmatic ideas. Faith keeps Christianity vital and refreshing, while hope forever bears an impenetrable optimism for the future. But love makes no sense.

God loved His creation, so He allowed Himself to be maligned, tortured, and murdered by that creation He loved. It doesn't make much sense. The sensible thing would be to exalt Christ, the only sinless man to ever walk the earth, the only truly righteous man. Yet, because He first loved us, He allowed His son to be denigrated instead.

"Does the Devil Doubt?" skims just the surface of asking God how He could possibly love us as individuals. Love makes no sense, and so we may question it. This is not an act of defiance, but rather, an admittance that love is so powerful and complex that it goes beyond all our abilities to reason.

DtDD is not a curse, or a proclamation against God, but an emotion-driven question of why God loves us -- or perhaps more intuitively, "How can God possibly love me?"

I believe that asking these questions will help us on our journey of sanctification, until the day when God's love will completely define our worth, and clothe us in mercy.

Back in Action!

I'm back and in full force. Both Rochelle and Kasey are online for production design and Rochelle has recommended a great property master.

Unfortunately, Saddleback Church does not have the room in their budget to financially support our film though they do support the film and have encouraged our passion.

I am definitely really excited to be apart of this project as it unfolds.

-Lee

communication

well, i'm here at my internship trying to get some work done on our project, but communication is stalled. we're trying to use this social/film networking site called rushcut.net that my friend justin anderson put together, but it's fairly difficult to navigate...

i really want to get cracking on the creative side of things but we're disconnected... ugh.