My Last Day gospel presentation out of 'R&D'
Research and development is a funny thing. Sometimes you get a group of people together and they have a great idea but the timing is not right. That is my perspective on this meeting that we had two years ago. The meeting was for the purpose of following up on the 'My Last Day' anime film that we had completed the previous year with Brethern Entertainment and Studio 4C in Tokyo. This 9-minute film on the crucifixion of Jesus had been a test, a 'pilot film' for the idea of combining JESUS film dialog with new visuals and new story telling (in Japanese anime) to tell the story. The group had been excited about My Last Day and felt more of the life of Jesus needed to be done in this form. Their key conclusion though, was that the next step was that it needed to be combined with a gospel presentation on a mobile device that would be simple enough that anyone could use. The immediate idea was to develop an app - but as it turned out the timing was...