The film festival edition of the DVDs have arrived! They will be for sale during the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, eight dollars a piece (lower price due to a bonus feature that will eventually be made and put on the final DVD).

As a Christmas gift to all those who have been following the progress of this film (and anyone else who happens to run across this website), I’m releasing the Precious Treasure soundtrack as a free download. It doesn’t contain the whole thing, because some of it just isn’t all that great as listening music… And I know that the rest of the music I composed isn’t the most phenomenal stuff in the world, but at any rate, here it is. This collection also includes three pieces by Kevin McLeod (see the Read-Me in the download folder for more info).

Download it here!

At this moment, I’m burning my first proof copy of the DVD. Unfortunately, however, this edition of the DVD will not be the final one… This is a limited edition which is being specifically made for sale at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival and elsewhere until I get the final DVD complete. All that’s needed to complete the DVD is a documentary, and it’s looking like that won’t be done till January.

One of my favorite parts of making DVDs is the graphic design aspect. It took me an hour and a half, but the DVD menus are about where I want them now, and I just need to finish the print media design.

Here’re a few pics that I’m working with in the design elements:

The following video is a 3D animation (created by 2AD Geno DiMaria) of the menu we used in the restaurant scene.

DiMario’s Ristorante Italiano - Menu from Chad Stembridge on Vimeo.

Just a quick update on the DVD project… I’m currently compiling the various video components that will be put onto the DVD. Here’s what I have so far:

Precious Treasure
Behind the Scenes
3D Animation of the menu (from the restaurant scene)
Official Trailer

Still no documentary… I’m waiting to hear back from a potential interviewee about setting up a date to do the interview. Please pray that the Lord will work these things out to His glory!

Precious Treasure will be screening twice at the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival:

- Friday, January 9, 8:30 AM (room 008 of the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center)
- Saturday, January 10, 12:15 PM (also in room 008)

Hope to see you there!

Progress is being made towards the end goal of getting the DVD project done! Today, I completed the final polish of the Behind-the-Scenes feature, finishing up the last of the color-correction and audio levels.

I hope to have a better idea of when the DVD will be done and copies in hand sometime within the next three weeks or so.

I’ve been working on trying to make it possible for the DVD to be pre-ordered (and just plain “ordered” once I get the physical DVDs) using PayPal, debit, or credit. Well, it’s now possible for that to be done.

For more info, and to order the DVD, please see the DVD page.

Please let me know if you have any questions, or have any problems, please let me know!

Precious Treasure will be competing in the San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival in the Young Filmmakers category.

To God be the glory!

I know, I know… I’ve been terrible about updating this site lately… Sorry!

So what’s going on with the Precious Treasure project now? Well, it’s moving forward, slowly… It’s a bit ironic how all throughout this project things haven’t been turning out the way I had originally planned for them to be, but rather how God has worked them out to be. And that’s the way it should be, really.

I had big hopes and dreams of making two short documentaries for the DVD as bonus features, both of their subjects being on key issues that are dealt with in the movie, such as purity, guarding one’s heart, and modesty. So after much dreaming and plotting and planning, I have… Well, kinda… Nothing to show for it.

Thus, I was considering finishing up the behind-the-scenes documentary, getting a couple trailers together, taping a short “word from the producer” type thing, and putting it all on the DVD to call it done. That’s what I was thinking. But now, much thanks to the Lord, things are looking quite the opposite… I’d rather not say much now, in case the Lord directs in a different direction, but there may be some exciting news in the near future about a bonus feature for the DVD.

That being said, it’s my goal to have the DVD wrapped up and hard copies in hand by January 1st, 2009. So to all you crew, cast, and prayer team members (and all who pre-ordered the DVD at the premiere, of course!): it’s coming! Don’t think I forgot about it!

Please keep the project in your prayers as I keep moving forward with it… Pray that God’s will be done, that He will be honored, and that people’s lives will be touched.

Laus Deo!