Making a Movie in Orange City Iowa

Nate's been really busy since getting home. That's good. He's preparing for his next assignment.

So I asked if I could put up some of his pictures from the shoot. They are so interesting.

Most of the pictures do not have Nate in them since he was taking them. Here's the only one he took . . . . looking in a mirror.

Hunter (the director of photography) carefully leveling his coffee.

Hummmm . . . . handy. =)
Gotta keep your strength up.


Planning meeting at the start of the day.


Hunter and Jamey adjusting lighting in the "bedroom".

Mr. Doryk with the boom.

Here's the sound cart. I like seeing the dolly for the camera in the background. Hunter had all sorts of dollies for moving the camera.

The roller dolly using roller blade wheels. If you click on this you can see them up close. In fact you can click on any picture to see it bigger.

More meetings.

Sometimes they filmed in really tight places. The camera is in the back corner. I liked the dramatic lighting and look forward to seeing how it comes across in the finished movie.

Here Matthew is being wired for sound.

This is a fun sequence. You can see what they are going to shoot and then you can see everyone in the background doing their part. The principle speakers must have all been miced because I don't see the boom in the pictures.

The Director, Jamey, is reviewing the shot with some future(?) filmmakers!


Here are some of the actors waiting. A lot of time is spent waiting while everything is being set up for the shot.

The Big Game

They put an announcement in the paper, put fliers on cars in parking lots and people from the area came to be a part of the crowd. Wouldn't that have been fun? I would have gone!

Look at this one up close. He's lining up the actor's face so he can do a fade in from the face of the other actor who is playing the part of the character when he was younger.


Notice Hunter is on roller blades. Nate said he was incredible on those skates! Boy the Lord can use the most interesting things in our lives to accomplish His purposes!

They had to get sprayed down to look like they had already been playing basketball.



Orange City was a fun little town with a marvelous dutch influence. It has about 5,000 people. (5 times the size of Oakland, and 1/4th the size of Zion.)


The downtown has all these fun dutch inspired store fronts.



Someone jokingly gave this gift to one of the actors. =) It fits the town's ethnic flavor. I think that the school mascot is called the Dutchmen.

Here are the younger members of the movie crew.

The children of the film crew (not including the goofy Jeremy).

The entire movie crew.

Nate and Mr. Doryk

We appreciate him so much. He gave generously of his time to teach and mentor Nate. Not just in audio, but up on those rocks!