Insane in the MemGRAIN

I spent some quality time with the camera this week, we filmed together as we strolled the busy streets of Santa Ana...we admired the architecture of the town....witnessed schoolchildren playing in front of beautiful murals..memories were formed that will be shown to you all in due time. In all seriousness though, our group got some long overdue filming done this week/weekend. We have begun to envision what will tell a story through images....We imagine a sort of stark contrast between the levels of the community and showcasing the fast paced lifestyle omnipresent in all of those levels. To really exemplify the feel of Santa Ana we will show disjunctive urban society and then show how community comes together doing community type things, and then ultimately community happening on a personal level (or shall we say GRASSROOTS level?).
We were able to conduct a few interviews this week and the information we attained from our informants will be very useful for our finalized film. We were able to interview two volunteers from KidWorks (a non profit organization also from Santa Ana focused on helping the children of the community), we also interviewed Nick Spain again. Our teaser critique mentioned a few flaws about the interview we used of his, hopefully this one will be better. We also interviewed some of the local children and got them doing children-y things. We also interviewed Dalilah, the sole proprietor of The Road Less Traveled, a sustainable conservation based store in Santa Ana. Dalilah also happens to be one of the three founding members of the Grain Project and has a great outlook on the Santa Ana community as a progressive entity. Her interview probably went the best out of all of them, we had conditions we could actually manipulate so the lighting, sound, and background were under our control.
All in all I think we are coming along and acquiring as much footage as we can and with more time available for editing we will be able to string all our pieces together and hopefully give you all a better picture of what exactly is going on in Santa Ana and the Grain Project and hopefully you will be as impressed as we are with the whole movement.