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PETER PAN - Filming Day 4

Today's shoot was incredibly short: just two hours long including dress up and dress down. It didn't take long at all because we were...

PETER PAN - Filming Day 3

Today was the first shoot on the pirate ship. The cars were packed with equipment but we managed to squeeze the boys in around it and...

Learning the Makeup

Makeup is not my thing. BUT, it is my sister Lauren's thing. The scary part of this equation is that my sister is leaving for school in a...

We Found Our Pirate Ship!

We've spent weeks looking for a pirate ship. We thought about asking the Renaissance Festival if we could use their life-size vessel,...

PETER PAN - Filming Day 2

Today we did all the scenes in the Captain’s Cabin. We’ve had the cabin set up in our basement for about a week now, and every time we...

PETER PAN - Filming Day 1

Scenes: Welcome to Neverland, Shoot the Wendy Bird, and The Bedtime Story What a wonderful day. I made the rounds and picked up five of...

Building the Lost Boy's Hideout

This hideout represents two days of very hard work. The first day I cleaned out the shed and the next I built the hideout inside. I...

Finalizing Costumes

Here a little, there a little, we are finalizing the costumes. For the longest time, we've had boxes in the basement labeled "Pirates," ...

We Found Wendy's Nightgown

Isn't it beautiful? I wanted something angelic for Wendy to wear. I know it's just a nightgown, but she's basically the only girl in ...

Costume Shopping

Costumes! It's one of the favorite parts of film prep. I always set aside a chunk of our budget for costumes just because it's just too...

Green Screen Tests

As you can imagine, with a film like Peter Pan, there are a lot of special effects: flying, fairies, pixie dust, etc. And that means lots...

Making Lost Boy Bows

Well, it might be premature, but I'm getting ancy. I went outside today and lopped off eight green branches in our treeline. My brother ...

The Script is Finished!

Peter Pan is the first film where we've had a real honest-to-goodness screenplay. For "Safe & Sound," we just typed up the lyrics to the ...

The Princess Bride - Outtakes

The best part of any video is (of course) the blooper-reel and the Princess Bride produced A LOT of outtakes. Put Vizzini, Westley, ...

The Princess Bride Gallery

This year, I (Rachel) was out of state at university when my cousins made their annual visit, so I didn't get to help shoot this film. I...

New Video: The Princess Bride

When Princess Buttercup is kidnapped by the three most wanted men in the kingdom, she has little hope for rescue. That is, until a...

New Video: Safe & Sound Behind the Scenes

It is impossible to pack a month's worth of planning, preparing and filming into a single less-than-ten-minute video, but we sure did our...

Is "Safe & Sound" a True Story?

The first question people ask when they see this video is always: "Is this a true story?" And the answer to that is, "Yes, sort of." We...

New Video: Safe & Sound Outtakes

Twenty-four Kids-on-Fire filming a movie for eight hours straight means A LOT OF OUTTAKES. We laughed a ton while making this...

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