Pre-Production-Scene 4: Pernicious Precipitation, The Final Scene

This is not about the final scene of the movie, but it is the final “scene” of my Pre-Production blog entries. That “Pernicious Precipitation” is what this entry is about.

It hadn’t rained in Baltimore in about six weeks, but lo and behold August 29th, the day before principal photography, it poured down. This was the first time I ever checked the weather online that frequently. My Aunt Gwen, whose home we were shooting at, called me around the 27th because of the rain forecast to ask me if we were still going ahead. I said “yes”. I had actor’s coming from out of town and I was determined to shoot on August 30th. Was I going to try and film a cookout scene in the rain? Of course not, but I was going to film. Rain or shine we WERE going to film the kitchen scene! Three of my four main cast were in that scene and we were going to film it.

I kept checking the weather because if it didn’t stop raining I was going to tell the rest of the cast NOT to come. August 29th was a Friday. It rained Friday morning, it rained Friday afternoon. Even when I got off of work and had to pick up the equipment, it was still raining. As soon as I got home I went online to check on the weather. The forecast called for partly sunny until about 4pm. That would give us enough time to shoot everything. When I called my Aunt that rainy Friday night to make final arrangements she asked me again if we were going to shoot and again I said “yes”. Just like situation I spoke of in Leap of Faith: The Andrea Ross Story I had to pray and have faith that things would be ok.

Saturday, August 30th the sky was cloudy, by the time we commenced shooting it was not partly, but completely sunny. God is good (all the time). The sun stayed out the whole shoot and about a hour after we finished shooting a thunderstorm poured down. Again, a true a testament to God and his power.

So that’s it. Everything (well mostly everything) I had to go through to get to principal photography. If you have more questions you can always email me at Dankwa@NotherBrother.com.

Is that all I have to say about our production? Of course not. I have to talk about my wonderful crew.


Previous “scenes” of Pre-Production:
Pre-Production-Scene 1
Pre-Production-Scene 2: Proverbs 10:7
Pre-Production-Scene 3: Leap of Faith: The Andrea Ross Story