Filming THE BEANSTALK: an introduction

We began filming for webisodes of THE BEANSTALK's first episode: Jamal and The Beanstalk this past weekend! Its been a long time coming. Many late nights spent typing away at the keyboard at a novel that was imagined over the course of two years. Mostly handwritten at first, it took another two years to type it...then another three manifesting the dream into reality.

I began by drawing pictures on my wall about it, then poems, later a screenplay for a children's production. Even reading classes; however, as of late curriculum has been developed, a website, the screenplay transformed and now...filming! I never even thought of this but once, and was reminded by a close friend that "Yo...we should film live action sequences of your book dude!"

A pause...and then..."yeaaa!" And the dream was born. Since that time...I have written lesson plans, tutored from the piece, administered assessments, and finished a screenplay all while making contact with a graphic artist to begin work on a graphic novel based on the screenplay.

In love with the movement of passionate things in my life I feel alive and blessed to be a part of something bigger. On the road to making this happen I began to realize that all the pieces to the puzzle are available to me, just putting them together is the challenge.

I came to Fayetteville to visit family and found that my cousin has been studying how to edit movies...and has become quite good at it! Not to mention, he has all the software to make this happen. That said, the first two scenes that were shot have already been edited and cued. I feel so blesed to have been able to be apart of this, and to enlist the help of family members and friends in future shootings!