“Choice Point” is a feature-length documentary film exploring the world of personal, transformational change. It considers how when one person makes small positive changes to their life, they can have a direct and positive impact on others. Ultimately, it shows how what we do impacts on others and that by changing our own lives for the better we can, in many ways change the world. Choice Point founder, Harry Massey, came to Halo Films with his concept and vision of the Choice Point film. As part of the wider Choice Point Movement the film is supported by many public figures, includes a book release, a magazine and is the driving force behind a philanthropic social fund. Substantial amounts of footage had been shot prior to Choice Point coming to Halo, and all on the Canon EOS5D Digital SLR. Traditionally a stills camera with interchangeable lenses, its movie mode has been developed to produce fantastic film-like quality footage. Halo’s brief was to pick up the existing footage and drive the film forward, working to a very tight timescale, and ultimately for worldwide DVD, Blue-Ray and social network release. Stepping into the 5D world was a new venture for the creative team at Halo. Very few long form documentaries have yet been made on the 5D and we have had to overcome many various technical challenges difficulties in the new technology – not least the process of syncing separately recorded sound with that from a camera not primarily designed for shooting video. Shooting at Halo has traditionally used HDV formats on cameras such as the Sony EX1 and EX3. Moving to the 5D meant being able to exploit the stills capacity of the large chip lenses used in stills photography, to create a much shallower depth of field, and consequently a far more cinematic look that harks back to the days of 35mm film. Our shoots adopted a more dramatic, considered approach to our subjects and contributors, and thanks to the need to record separate sound, involved film-like disciplines such as marking scenes using a clapperboard. Creatively, it has been immense fun and has given us the opportunity to work with some highly skilled people in the 5D world. The Halo team grew larger as Producers, Editors and Graphic Designers joined the fold to help produce Choice Point. We tell the stories of inspirational people who have all made choices in their lives. Jodi Orton, a former senior paralegal from New Jersey, left the legal world to move into fostering and adoption. Jodi and her husband Bret, now based in Warsaw, Missouri, have fostered around 100 children, many of whom have inherent behavioural and emotional disorders. The Halo team went to the States to film with them over 5 days in October 2011. In addition we have filmed many great visionaries and thinkers about their personal stories of transformation, and have also had the enormous privilege of filming recognised global philanthropic figures such as Sir Richard Branson, Jean Paul DeJoria, (co-founder of Paul Mitchell Haircare), and Bill Drayton, founder of the Ashoka organisation in the U.S. We also turned our Halo home into a studio, filming macro shots of oil dispersing in water, which will appear in the film as distant, far flung galaxies… The film will be launched in Spring 2012 and will become the backbone of the Choice Point Movement. Choice Point provides a scientific, self-help and human story platform to help people transform their lives for the better while at the same time showing them how to contribute to transforming the world in beneficial ways. Its mission is to make an impact at the individual level, which will in turn help to transform the world at a global level. It is based on the theory that by aligning with purpose, we each can help to bring the world into better alignment for a positive, peaceful future in which we can more easily solve the problems that currently beset the world Choice Point Contributors: Barbara Marx-Hubbard – Futurist and Co-founder, Foundation for Conscious Evolution Sir Richard Branson – Entrepreneur and Founder & CEO, Virgin Group John Paul DeJoria – Philanthropist and Co-founder, John Paul Mitchell Systems Robert E. Quinn, PhD – Author, ‘Change the World’ Alison Pothier – Former City Worker & Founder, Inside Out Retreats Jack Canfield – Success Coach & Co-creator, ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ David R Hamilton, PhD – Scientist & Author, ‘It’s the Thought That Counts’ Gregg Braden – Author, ‘The Isaiah Effect,’ ‘The God Code’ & ‘The Divine Matrix’ Birke Baehr – Youth Campaigner for Organic Food and Sustainable Agriculture Brett Moran – Addiction Specialist and Transformation Coach Jodi Orton – Foster and Adoptive Parent & receiver of NFPA Foster Family of the Year 2011 Peter Buffett – Musician and Composer Bill Drayton – Social Entrepreneur and Founder & CEO, Ashoka Dr Scilla Elworthy – Founder, The Oxford Research Group & Member, World Future Council Prof. Ia