week of june 12th

The film festival was really enjoyable. i appreciated the reactions of the audience when my films came out. i enjoyed seeing reactions that other films got as well as watching films that i have not seen.

week of june 5th

This week my group and i had a difficult time coming up with an idea of our third film. we decided to do a music video. We chose the song and redani and i came up with the idea with the help of our friend Mariana.

week of may 29

our production company and i finished our second film. we are now in the process of accomplishing our third film.

Week of May 22

This week we finished most of our shots for our second film. We edited and we just need some music and we are finished.

week of may 15

We pitched our idea for a PSA but Mr.Landsdown gave us one that we really liked therefore we went with that one. i am working on the script and i will film the scenes later today.

week of may 8th

I finished editing our first film. And i am really proud of it. I know its late, really late but i like the final product.

Week of April 17

My film group and i are close to finishing our film. This week we filmed two days and we got most of our scenes done. We just need a few more scenes, which we will do sunday. And we will be done. We already have the scenes that we have filmed edited and so we will be done by the middle of next week.

week of april 10

My production company and i have began filming and we are going to finish filming on sunday to edit all week next week. and our film will be complete on Friday

Week of April 3

My group and i have decided how and when we will film. We talked about the different shots we can do by going over the script. We finished the script and we discussed what we wanted to take out and what we wanted to add. We will film on Sunday.

Week of March 27

My film group consist of Karina Rodriquez, Giovanni Lopez, Redani Diaz, Denise Cid and Lenia Rodriquez. This week we finished developing the story line. We had an idea but we needed to discuss what way we want to go with the plot. We are doing a narrative film, in which we see the reality of the couple. We discussed what type of scenes we wanted and who will be the actors. we also wrote the ideas we went for different scenes and we found a way to tie in different ideas from everyone in our group. We began working on the script on Thursday and we will continue today.

What Music Means to Me

Music is a gift. It is a universal emotional language that allows us to feel. It brings us closer to ourselves and to how we empathize and understand others. Not only foe me, but in general, it often communicates what cannot be put into words. Music is the way to express yourself , and have others understand you through it. It keeps company when alone, it give comfort when in need of it, it give feeling when numbness takes over. It is an escape for plenty of people. Music is something people identify themselves with. It is a drug. Music is how one interacts with one another and how people who love music or the same type of music become close friends. It brings people together. It is art, the way hitting a key on the piano, or drumming  drum, or playing a string can create something so beautiful. Music plays a big role in plenty of lives. For some it is the most important thing in their life. Music is life, inspiration, entertainment among other things. As human beings we tend to differ in a lot of things, yet when we find someone who is into the same music or is feeling the same thing we feel, we communicate. Music is used as a form of communication and it is a beautiful thing.

Problems and Sturggles

Looks and the way people are can be so deceiving therefore i always wonder what type of struggles people go through. I do not want to talk for anybody but a lot of high school student not just bell students go through similar struggles whether they may be having good grades, being a perfect daughter/son, or simply having some type of relationship with their parents. But as teens, i believe that our main struggle is trying to be who we are and who we want to be in this cruel, judgmental society. I believe that most of us are trying to figure out who we are in high school but it is so hard when we have people around us who cannot accept who we are. There is a such a high percentage of bullying in schools because people are who they are. We grow up with magazines, tv, media, and society telling us what the definition of perfect is, or telling us how to dress to be "cool." It is hard to really be who you are and who you want to be in a world where we live in. Therefore, when i see people who are eccentric and dress differently and act how they want to act and be who they want to be, i admire that a lot. Most teens always try to be someone they are not and do things they do not want to do simple because it is what people do now a days or because they feel pressured to do it. Most teens are finding themselves while in high school, but with a society like ours, it is a massively difficult to do that.

The Most Interesting Person I Know

I recently met one of the most rarest person ever. This person is eccentric. I met them two months ago and i met them through a mutual friend. When we first met, i instantly found this person interesting because they shook my hand. And not a loose handshake, a tight and firm one. That to me says a lot, i like handshakes, tight and firm. Therefore, naturally this person instantly became interesting. But we did not start talking until January. We became really close, you can say, and as i got to know them more and more i just found this individual so interesting. We talk plenty therefore they has told me stories and experiences that have made this person who he is today and their experiences are something i have never heard before. Their mindset is very similar to mine, when we talk about things that can cause arguments but we tend to agree. But at the same time, we have a very different mindset. We view thing the same way but in our own way. Our conversations are very weird and funny. There is not a moment where it is just silence and if there is it is a comfortable silence. We can talk for hours and hours on end.   I still do not know a lot about this individual and i am not calming i know them the best but i am saying that he is very weird, good weird, and weird is always interesting.

My Anti-Drug

Just like everyone in the world, i do not just have one anti-drug. I have various anti-drugs, for example running, music, watching TV,  Taekwondo, or going to the park. But my main anti-drug the one that helps me the most when it comes to wanting to escape reality even if it is just for a quick moment is reading. Books are something that I cherish and love with everything in me. Reading has become something I do not want to focus on any problem i have or if i am stressed or mad or sad or feeling any type of emotion that i do not want to feel. To me reading is able to do things that you do not think is possible. They take me away to a place where my reality is nonexistent. Loneliness is cured when i open a page of a book. Thank God for them because they are my company and they bring me comfort. When no one is around to talk to, the pages of books invite someone wander inside a different world. Books and reading bring happiness to my life.

What I Learned from An Inconvenient Truth

I am not the type of person to watch the news nor am i the person to read newspapers or news articles, therefore after i watched this documentary, i am horrified. I have always avoided watching the news the reason begin that i like to avoid reality as much as i can. Not because i want to live in a fantasy world, no. i know that the world is a very cruel but beautiful place. But it is not the world itself that is cruel, it is the people in the world that are cruel to it. An Inconvenient Truth went into depth on what i already knew, the world is slowly coming to an end and it is all because of the inhabitants. When Al Gore was talking about climate change and water level rising, it really struck me how much i have avoided. The information in the documentary was not recent at all, imagine how bad it is now. This whole documentary helped me learn a great deal of things i have avoided. I cannot really say one thing that struck me from the documentary because to me all of it was incredibly fascinating yet horrifying. But if i had to choose, the two scenes that caught my attention were when he mentioned how the top ten hot climate years were in the past 14 years and when he showed the images of what would happen all over the world if the water level kept on rising.  The fact that global warming and climate change is actually killing our planet and we have not done much about it really opens my eyes. The biggest thing i learned by watching this is how much future generations are going to suffer because of this problem. Slowly but surely, global warming is killing the planet. Actually, it is not global warming nor climate change that is killing it, humans are killing the world. And its life is in our hands.