Today was the first day of our fiction film workshop with local youth from the Bajo Lempa region. We began bright and early by watching a documentary made during a similar workshop, conducted by Hispano Duron in his country of Honduras. The purpose of the workshop was to produce a short fictional film relating a local story about environmental sustainability. Hispano started by introducing the components and goals of fictional film--of which I was happy to hear--aim to educate and entertain. Following this, we formed three different groups to come up with potential ideas for the film. The stories were great; we had to choose between one about crabs, 'talking trash', and bomba fishing (that's fishing with explosives). We agreed that all of them would make wonderful films, and hopefully they will—as the youth (and all of us as well) are learning the entire process. We voted as a group for bomba fishing for our subject, and together we crafted the story. After a quick lunch we packed up the van and headed out to check out the area where we'd be filming.
Even though we returned at four, our work was far from done. With a quick dash, we made our way to Don Chungo's for an interview for our documentary work, and we learned his personal account of a Salvadoreño's exodus and repatriation. We hurried back for dinner before having a serious meeting to create our game plan for tomorrow when we will do all the shooting for the short film. We are all working well now together and it's very exciting to see everyone contributing and making things happen! With the intention of withholding any spoiler—as the film will make our blog upon completion—all I will say for now is that our story will take place in a fishing community, Isla de Mendez, and tomorrow we'll be shooting parts of the film on the water! So much excitement!!
Be sure to stay tuned!!!!
-David Simon
Even though we returned at four, our work was far from done. With a quick dash, we made our way to Don Chungo's for an interview for our documentary work, and we learned his personal account of a Salvadoreño's exodus and repatriation. We hurried back for dinner before having a serious meeting to create our game plan for tomorrow when we will do all the shooting for the short film. We are all working well now together and it's very exciting to see everyone contributing and making things happen! With the intention of withholding any spoiler—as the film will make our blog upon completion—all I will say for now is that our story will take place in a fishing community, Isla de Mendez, and tomorrow we'll be shooting parts of the film on the water! So much excitement!!
Be sure to stay tuned!!!!
-David Simon