Pilate

 

Long day of filming today, as Mom and I went down to the Braselton Campus again to help with the actual filming for various cutaways and short scenes on the screens for our upcoming Easter production.  We started out with our friend Daniel here at Pilate, alongside a few Roman soldiers.

He's a fun goofball!  You can see me below, genuinely moved by the performance of Jeremiah's mother Alejandra, who is playing Mary this year.

She had no experience with acting, and there weren't any lines, but still a great responsibility to convey all the emotions of a mother watching her son tortured in such a horrific way.  That part would come later.  She's using her imagination here - acting - looking at nothing.  But in her mind, it's awful.  Fortunately she didn't have to stick around for the remaining portions, which were genuinely awful to see.

It was a long day down there, but Mom was fantastic with costuming, making sure the large crowd of angry rioters were adequately dressed, plus the Romans, Pilate, Mary, and of course Jesus.  They all looked great.  Josh and I were needed to be rioters, so we too are in the crowd, yelling and screaming at Jesus.  You really have to take yourself out of the event and not think of the actual event that you're portraying, otherwise it would be difficult.  I mean, who would do such a thing?  

Anyway, it was a long day.  Maddie had a decent day at school.  She lifted her math grade up with a decent test score and was happy about that.  And she had leadership class tonight - I raced home from Braselton all the way to Forsyth County just to immediately turn around and drive back that way, stopping in Oakwood of course for leadership.  It was a short class, but she enjoyed it.  When we got home though, it was time for Mom and I to just plop down on the couch and get some rest.  Long day!  

But it was a beautiful day.  The temperature was actually pretty warm, and the sun shining for the first time in a good bit.  The skies were clear and blue, and there was a feeling of spring in the air.  Indeed, the blooms on trees are there, and Maddie's been on her allergy medication to counter a lot of that spring inconvenience.  The Bradford pears are fully in bloom, quite nice to look at, but also quite pungent.

This evening at home, Maddie was working on a birthday card for her friend, and eventually it was bedtime.  We read from our recent Kingdom Keepers book, where we've got about a hundred pages left.  Our heroes are slowly realizing that their parents could in fact be the actual Kingdom Keepers... gasp!  We read this last year, but it's been good for review, as soon we'll get the next chapter.

Closing out the night, Maddie, the Plush Entourage and myself said our prayers and journeyed down the hall to get tucked in.  It was time for some rest!