The Ark and the Darkness Movie Christmas Update - Filming at the Ark Encounter!

Behind-the-Scenes Christmas Update from the Ark Encounter

Interviews here and so this is a really wild experience. We didn't sleep last night. I think we slept one or two hours. We just flew in and now we're here. So exciting. All vehicles. Hey everyone it's Ralph and this is the Christmas update of the Ark and the Darkness film shoot.

So honestly when you're just what a hundred yards back there it's like you know it's okay it's not bad and then once you get up here you're like oh my goodness that's big. We decided to step out in faith and begin filming the Ark and the Darkness speakers at AIG before the crowdfunder was even finished.

So here's a little bit of behind-the-scenes video of what it's like shooting at night at the Ark. So this is my first time here at the Ark and it's kind of crazy because sort of the same philosophy behind what we're gonna do with the Ark of the Darkness is try to give people like a recap of Genesis before you get to you know the pre-flood world and then the flood and the post-flood world but it was really cool seeing my movie here on the screen.

I thought this was only over at the Creation Museum so pretty awesome that they're using this as part of their creation summary. So what makes shooting at the Creation Museum and the Ark Encounter so so much of a challenge is that you can only start shooting after 6 p .m. when they close the doors and it takes about four or five hours to set up you know some really good shots for each speaker and you have two speakers a night and so both nights at the Ark we were shooting well until about 5 a .m. and in this particular case right here in this shot you're seeing a certain someone kept interrupting us.

Yep it was none other than Noah himself who kept making noises throughout the entire time we were filming poor Tim Chafee. And so we had to switch him off and then later switch him back on again. Here you see Dr. Mortensen shooting at 3 a .m. at night.

Oh here's Dr. Snelling and here is Dr. Gabriella Haynes as well as soon-to-be Dr. Tim Chafee here. It was an awesome first shoot and we're so thankful to AIG for being in our film. Hey everybody it's Ralph and we just wanted to give you a fun update.

Funding the First Ark Encounter Shoot by Faith

We actually got done shooting last week at Answers in Genesis at the Ark Encounter. It was part one of a two-part shoot that we're doing for the Ark in the Darkness. We actually went and took a leap of faith and decided to use our own finances and pump it into a shoot and just say hey God we trust you that you're gonna make the crowd funder work you're gonna make the money come in to be able to do the rest of the whole film.

So we shot AIG and actually in January we're gonna be shooting all the other speakers at Liberty University. But in the meantime I wanted to give you a quick tour as well of I guess what I'm calling the 7-fold film studio.

You know it's it's humble humble beginnings but follow me this way and I'm gonna take you on a really quick tour. So right here we have ten computers that we're gonna be setting up and those are going to go on the second rack over here in a moment in the server room that I'm going to show you.

And we're basically going to in our downtime between the two shoots be setting up all the rest of the computers and these computers are what render the Ark in the Darkness movie and Quantum. These are the types of computers that rendered out the Genesis movie the Olivia pro-life project that you guys saw etc etc so keep following me.

So over here is a structure I put together from scratch it took me several months to do. We basically had to gut this place it was an absolute nightmare. There was I almost don't even want to tell you because you you wouldn't look at the place the same way again but it had mice, rats, squirrels, snakes.

I guess they had left the door open to this warehouse and they weren't here for a couple of years and all sorts of disgusting crap got in here so we sanitized the place we cleaned it up and then we basically tore out the structure that was in here and totally rebuilt this in here complete with some really state-of-the-art air conditioning units.

This is our little kitchen here over there's the bathroom here is my office and the guy who's doing the camera work right now Sean he's actually our our first employee that we've hired for this film and this is his office it's a cool little little nook that we made with a pretty sweet cushy chair and a really nice setup there but if you follow me over here this is actually the render room the server room.

So a lot of you may already be familiar this is actually the tower that kept getting upgraded and upgraded ever since quantum so I kind of you know call this the quantum tower and then over here you'll notice it's empty.

This is where those other computers are going we're going to have a second tower the arc in the darkness tower and of course both of the towers will share rendering jobs from each other and whatnot but the cool thing is this time around I actually got to design a server room with all of the knowledge that I had prior to other little places that you've seen me build over the years and I just took all the information packed into this one room and now I feel like I have like the best you know server room I can possibly get for the money so it's really exciting.

Trusting God to Finish the Film and Support the Crowdfunder

We're so thrilled that you know we're able to make this movie. We're trusting in God as you guys see you know I guess because of COVID and the tough times the crowd funders a little bit behind but we still have time we can turn it around.

We've always trusted that God would provide for us because he always has and we believe that this movie and all of the things we're doing whether it's the pro-life video series or it's quantum or it's you know the Genesis movie I already made or arc in the darkness he provides and he uses you guys to do it.

So hopefully you guys will be able to squeeze a little bit extra out. I know it's Christmas. I know that you guys probably already spent a lot of money on gifts and everything but it'd be great if you guys can consider supporting this.

We are in the last days we are trying to fight to get the truth out there to save people. And the number one reason why people don't believe right now in the Bible in Jesus Christ is because they think that the Bible has been historically and scientifically debunked and the arc in the darkness is going to shatter that misconception.

So thank you guys we love you guys. God bless you brothers and sisters and we'll send you another update soon so that's it for this update guys thank you so much for bringing us this far we obviously have a long way yet to go and we are trusting in God that he will bring us the rest of the way.

We hope that you will consider donating to this amazing film that God willing will help save souls.