Hello everyone,

No doubt some of you will get multiples of this post as it's sent
through cyber space and I apologize for that.

One week from today, the independent movie Fireproof, from the
producers of Facing The Giants, opens in over 800 theaters across the
country. I had the honor of recording the dialog for this movie. It
was a great pleasure to work on the movie with my boom operator Kevin
Daughtry and we are quite proud of the finished product.

We invite everyone to go out and see this faith based movie about a
Firefighter who saves lives for a living, but has lost all hope of
saving his marriage from disaster. Kirk Cameron plays the lead role in
the movie and early reviews say it's the best performance of his
career. He was a great pleasure to work with. The movie is already
getting top reviews from family and marriage organizations around the
world. There are some exciting firefighting scenes in the movie and
the same kind of humor that ran throughout Facing The Giants.

Many have asked me why the push to see Fireproof opening weekend. We
have been asking everyone to brave the crowds and go see the movie on
the opening weekend if at all possible, which is Sept. 26, 27, and 28.
The reason why this is so important is that a strong turnout the
opening weekend tells theater owners that people want to see this
movie, and will keep the movie longer in their theater. It also shows
other theater owners that they should show the movie. Facing the
Giants ran for 17 weeks in theaters, expanding from about 300 theaters
to 1000 and grossing 10.1 million dollars. Part of that success was
due to the very strong opening it had. And it tells the theater
operators that there are lots of people who want to see more of these
types of movies in the future.

Another reason it's important this time around, is that the week
following the opening of Fireproof, seven Hollywood blockbusters are
slated to open across the country. Screen space is very limited so if
the open is low or lackluster, then Fireproof will get bumped for
another movie. That's just business and we all understand that. So
that's two reasons to get out and see the movie on opening weekend.
And, see it multiple times. When Facing the Giants came out, I went
three times, each time taking family and friends, whom I bought the
tickets for. They had a great time too. Everyone loves to see a movie
if someone else pays for it. Just make sure they buy the popcorn.

For those who are into technical info, Fireproof was shot on the
Panasonic Varicam, which is a High Definition digital camera. We used
prime lenses and a Pro35 adapter which has a spinning ground glass
that gives the images greater depth of field and that "film" look. And
we were told by Sony that we shot this movie differently than any
other movie. We took the SDI output, which was digitally encoded with
my stereo audio, and ran it directly into an Apple G-5 Pro computer,
using the new (at the time of shooting) software program ProRes 422,
which Apple said we were the guinea pigs for. The images and sound
were captured by a capture engineer directly to redundant hard disc
drives. The first week of production, as we were sending rough cuts to
Sony, the images were so gorgeous, that they stopped production on
another movie they were producing, and told them to regroup, shooting
it the way we were shooting our movie. That's pretty incredible. Since
then, many digital films have adopted our method. The movie was then
edited on computer, and finally shot onto 35mm film stock, so it could
be projected in theaters.

On the sound side, I used Sennheiser 416 shotgun mics on K-Tek and VDB
boom poles, into a Sound Devices 442 mixer, Lectrosonic 411a wireless
systems with Tram lavs. Sound effects were recorded onto the Sound
Devices 744T digital hard drive recorder and burned onto DVD Ram discs.

We think you'll be touched, challenged, and entertained when you see
Fireproof, and you may be amazed by the technical quality of a movie
that cost only $180,000.00 to shoot, but features some pretty intense
special effect firefighter scenes, which I'm happy to say, and
somewhat embarrassed to share, that there was not a line of sound that
was ADR'd (looped in post) in the entire movie. Much thanks to Kevin
for that.

We hope Fireproof will not only entertain and be a movie that families
feel is safe to take their children to, but we hope that viewers will
be encouraged by it's message, that even in dire situations, troubled
relationships may still be able to be saved, with work and faith.

So if you are at all interested, even if it's just to hear movie sound
done by me :-) , get out this coming weekend at a theater near you.
Here's a website that tells you where the movie is opening at:

http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/theaters/

and we thank you for supporting family safe independent film making.

Rob W