Trial & Triumph Travel Journals

Come along with the Appian Media team during their 2018 trip to Israel and see firsthand what it’s like to produce a major docu-series like “Searching for a King: Israel’s United Kingdom”.

24 HOURS of traveling!
The Appian Media team begins their overseas production trip with close to 24 hours of travel, but will everyone arrived on-time and with all of the video gear accounted for?

Representations of Victory
The team visited the Izmir Archaeology Museum to capture the incredible artistic representations of victory and other imagery from the book of Revelation.

They Call Him RoboCop
Appian Media has upped its camera gear for this trip and with the added quality comes added weight, but Jet is up to the task.

Breakfast of Champions
When you're in Turkey shooting documentaries, you need to start your day with a good breakfast. What better way than with something...delightful!

Normally...cars go forward.
We have been doing a LOT of driving in Turkey, producing our next documentary project. Most of the trip, we've driven forward. But there was this one time...

A Bizarre Source of Healing?!
Lydia discovers (and Jet identifies) evidence of a reptile friend at the ruins of Laodicea, but does it really having special healing powers?

Every Mountain Hike Needs a Timelapse
You can’t start a hike up Sardis of nearly 1,000 feet up without setting at least one timelapse!

When in Turkey...you Drink What?!
Stuart and Jet get to experience a traditional Turkish drink, prepared in a really unique way...but it might have been exactly what Stu was expecting.

Building on Top of Thousands of Years of History
Craig talks about the incredible day the team had filming at ancient Laodicea and compares it to what they've seen in the modern city of Philadelphia in Turkey.

We Love What We're Hearing
Stuart took on a new role during the production of "Trial & Triumph" in Turkey which will add a much deeper element of storytelling than we've had before!

We Explore a Turkish Fish Market
Seafood doesn't get much fresher than THIS! During our production trip to Turkey in October of 2020, our team visited a local fish market! Caught that morning and cooked that night!

Coffee Shop B Roll
Stuart and Craig make an early morning coffee run to LaGrange Coffee Roasters in LaGrange, Kentucky to help fill in some of Jeremy's backstory for our upcoming feature-length documentary "Trial & Triumph: Revelation's Churches."

Visualizing John's Terrifying Vision of Jesus
How do you visualize the opening chapter of the book of Revelation and the intimidating vision of Jesus that John sees? Our team recently met in the studio to aid our viewer's imaginations with some creative...and unusual...filming techniques, including using the Venus Optics Laowa Probe Lens.

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