PRIVATE WLWI SCREENING

The Brothers Williamson held a private screening of When Love Walks In this past Friday evening. (Doesn't that sound impressive?!) Actually, Brad and I and a handful of others viewed the film on my not-so-state-of-the-art, 1988, 19", Zenith television. We peeled off the shrink-wrap of one of our thousand copies of the film, popped it into my $50 DVD player, sat back and watched it. It went off without a hitch!

Both Brad and I were blown away. It is amazing having lived through the last eight years of creating this film and to finally see it as a completed piece. The story is solid... the cinematography is great... the color correction and effects give enormous punch... the soundtrack takes the film to a whole new level...

But it wasn't always this way. When Love Walks In went through ELEVEN revisions before finding it's final form. We added Sierra's (the three-year-old's) Voice-Over along the way that really helps make it her story. (We did this after screening the film to test audiences and found out that they really loved her character. This helps deepen her character's role in the film as well as deepen the audiences connection with her).

In the audience Friday night were a few folks who had seen very early version of the film (without all the sound effects and music), plus a few who had never seen it before. There reaction was very positive.

There will always be the things I wish we would have done differently, or had a bigger budget for, etc., etc., but regardless, When Love Walks In is a great date movie. As a member of one of our test audiences from a few years back said, "see it with someone you love!"

Kent