Showing posts with label Grace Cathedral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Grace Cathedral. Show all posts

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Magnificat and Food Inc.

Remember I told you that last Sunday we went to Grace Cathedral to scope out locations for a shoot? Well, we had the shoot on Sunday. The group that sang was called Magnificat. They sang a Baroque operatic chant to G-d. They sounded like Benedictine monks. The music just took me out.

I filmed it with Film Workshop. That's Max Sokoloff in the background. I tried to make my camera work look like moving painting. But, we'll see after I edit it. I'll put it up on the blog.

Yesterday, I watched Food Inc. It was really a great documentary and I was sad to see how the animals are kept out of the sun for their entire lives. Also, the way they kill pigs was really upsetting, by smashing them with this thing that looks like a garbage truck crusher. I like hamburgers, but I am going to be really careful from now on about where the meat comes from...how the animals are treated and the conditions in which they lived before they were killed to be eaten by humans.

Sunday, April 18, 2010

Sunny Sunday


Wow! Today was Film Workshop. FINALLY! I really don't like when there is a long break, but there was with Easter and Passover. Or Passover and Easter, in that order.

We scouted this location--Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. I love it there. I sang there with a boychoir when I was in 5th grade. Today, we went around inside looking for where we will film next weekend.

Later in the day, I got to hear the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra playing Stavinsky and Mozart at the San Francisco Symphony. Mozart's Violin Concert No. 2 in D major. K.211 totally took me in.