On some shoots, we have the budget to hire the extras needed to bring a scene to life.
Not always…

Knowing that the action called only for the hands and torso of a physician, we made due with a member of the production team.

This is as close as this extra will ever get to contributing in an emergency room. He’s more disposed to surgery of the variety that occurs in an edit bay…
One of our mantras when we’re out gathering footage for a story is to always be on the lookout for the unexpected.
We wrapped out of shooting at a hospital in Columbus the other day, and as we were loading gear on the fifth floor of the parking garage, one of our team members happened to turn around and observe that we were at the perfect vantage point to acquire the downtown establishing shot we knew we wanted to find.
Out came a camera and tripod…

At a conference in Indiana this weekend, a little lady coaxed her dad to stop and watch Hannah, Jasmine, and CeCe explain The Art of Cooking...
Today’s shoot outside Columbus included a sequence we quite enjoyed.


Dylan, Cole, Rod, and TJ got their respective assignments…

Mark got a thorough safety briefing, then climbed aboard…


Lift off…

Cole got pulled off the camera crew to become an extra in the scene…



Later, Mark switched from the skycam to the stedicam…

Even the director got his hands on a camera…

The adventure continues tomorrow…
Each HD camera below had its particular function on today’s shoot in the Columbus, Ohio area.
The Canon 5D Mark II (and a nice set of prime lenses) is a versatile option for spontaneous or hard to capture b-roll…

The Panasonic HVX 200 is a workhorse that brings home better-than-should-be-expected images captured via hi-res P2 technology…

And the Panasonic HPX 500 is always a stalwart choice as an A camera for documentary-style shooting…

Yes, we miss the days of shooting 400 ft. mags of Kodak or Fuji 16mm (or 1000 ft. mags of 35mm), or even 100 ft. rolls on the Bolex.
But it’s hard to argue with the advances in digital technology and High Definition videography…
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A 16th birthday party Friday night for a special young lady was cause for great excitement, especially for certain younger family and friends, who thoroughly enjoyed the festivities - as long as they could…





I love these DVD’s! We just received The Art of Sewing and it is wonderful. This was such a great idea to film these ladies. They are great. My three year old loves CeCe. We have all of these except the dairy one and hope you have more in the series. These are great for everyone. Especially people who are unable to live the homesteading lifestyle at the moment, they can watch these and live it vicariously. Thanks again for all your hard work on these DVD’s. May the Lord Bless you.
Today is the release date for Homestead Blessings: The Art of Sewing. DVDs of this latest offering with The West Ladies from rural Tennessee will be shipped all over the country and around the world today. This notion always prompts Vicki to declare “that’s such a blessin’!” Here’s a trailer for Sewing:
And here’s a brief excerpt of Hannah and Vicki working on a baby blanket:
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The weather is finally breaking, and the warmth of yesterday’s sun beckoned two six year old cousins to venture outdoors…

Sure, they enjoyed the atypical number of sledding days this year, but enough’s enough…



There may be a few more flurries before this Winter is behind us, but these two know that Summer’s comin’...