Film Festival Review

In my opinion , the film festival was a success. I enjoyed looking at the movies that all of the students worked hard on to put together. The movies were varied. I enjoyed the comedy movies the most. There was only a couple, but those were my favorite. I heard good comments about movies and I can't wait until the next one.

Week of June 5

This week has been stressing. We cannot get the timing of the clips to completely match the music. We recorded some dancing to make up for the open space. We also began to brainstorm ideas for our last film since we are almost completely doe with our music video.

Week of May 22

We continued editing the clips. It is hard to get them to be at the length we want without over cutting them. by next week we should be don't editing.

Week of May 29

This week my team and I finished editing all the clips. We had trouble inputing the music but we got it to play. Now we are going to start fixing the music so it has the right timing.

Week of May 15

This week me and my group got most of our recording done. We began to edit it,but we might put the project on hold and begin a new one to submit to the film festival.

Week of May 8

This week me and my group began to look for new ideas for our second film. We want to do a music video. It will be different than any regular music video because it will involve comedy in a way.

Week of April 24

This week me and my group finished our first film. We finished the editing needed and adjusted the sound. After these couple of weeks, now that we are  done, I get the feeling of what it's like to make a film. We are now ready to move on to our next one.

Week of April 17

This week was spent mostly on editing the film. We watched all of our clips and eliminated the ones that did not have the right quality sound or visual. also we put all the clips together and we are now debating on what music we are going to be using.

Week of April 10

This week my group and I have continued to interview people. We have a small amount of usable film so we are continuing to add to it. I have also started to edit the film to start to put it together. We have some new ideas on the order in which we are going to combine the clips, but we should be done in about a week.

Week of April 3rd

This weekend we went out to the Santa Monica pier to film. We interviewed people we didn't know and asked them the original question we had planned. however, people didn't want to answer that so we changed the question thinking people might have believed it was to personal, but they were just shy. We decided to start filming students and staff at school and it turns out we are getting more answers here.

March 27

My group, consisting of Matthew and Marco,and I struggled this week to decide on what kind of film we want to make. Our first idea was to make a music video but our idea was just not original enough. Therefore, we brainstormed other ideas and decided to go with a documentary. So far we have came up with questions and narrowed them down. We decided on one and then did test runs on the type of answers we would be getting. We also decide where we would be shooting. The audience there is expected to be varied so we would get different answers from every person. We do have a set filming date where we will get most of our shots and hopefully they will all be useful.

What Music Means to Me

Music gives me a feeling of relaxation. It is also stress relieving. When I listen to music I completley zone out and just think. There are however different types of music for every one of my moods. When I am happy I listen to music with rhythm more upbeat. When I am sad or I need to think about something I listen to slow more calm music. My favorite artist is Bruno Mars. He helps for all my moods because his music is varied. Listening to his music you  can go from sad to  happy . He has ballads, Reggae, and up beat modern day songs. A couple of my favorite songs by him are Just the way you are, Show me, Young girls, and his most recent hit Uptown Funk. Some of my preferred artist include Sam Smith, Taylor swift, Enrique Iglesias and Shakira. with their music they help me de-stress my self and feel happy about another day.

Problems and Sturggles

Students, including myself, go through many struggles. Not always is it something as bad as bullying or abuse, it can be worries as simple as how to keep your grades up or what to wear; things that everyone has gone through. There are many other simple problems, I am sure, that students go through daily and finding a solution to then can be difficult at times. Although I struggle alongside many other students for simple problems, there are others who suffer with more severe ones. For example, being bullied or judged or the feeling of being excluded. These problems, which start of as a joke to some people can end up with disastrous consequences if the victim is pushed to there limits. In todays society, teens, particularly in high school base who they are on what other people want to see and not who they truly are to avoid being ignored.

The Most Interesting Person

The most interesting person I know is my uncle. He is the most creative and funny person I know. Whenever we have family reunions he is always the one telling stories and he makes sure to keep us listening. His stories are always about different things , things we don't expect to hear about and when he's not telling stories he's telling jokes. Not only is he the most interesting because of what he tells us but his personality is very interesting too. He is very giving and he likes to help out anyone whoever he can. I enjoy spending time with him because I know it will be a blast.

My Anti-Drug

My anti-drugs include all my hobbies. Whenever I feel stressed or angry or sad I can rely on doing any of these activities and I will feel relieved. Music is one of my anti- drugs. There is music for any one of my moods. It helps me get my mind off of the things that I don't want to think about. Baking is also an anti drug because I enjoy doing it. its relaxing because I let my mind be free and express itself when I decorate. The biggest of all my anti-drugs is playing volleyball. whenever I play I forget about everything and only think of my sport. Playing volleyball makes me happy and after I spend time playing I can go back to my life.

An Inconvenient Truth

This documentary made me realize how careless we have become when it comes to taking care of earth. We seem to think that simply because earth is so big we don't have to worry about anything ever happening to it but that's wrong. In these past years studies have graphically shown how badly humans have affected the earth.One thing that I found interesting from the documentary was how miners would go into a coal mine with a canary. They used the bird to help determine whether the air was healthy enough for humans to take in. Under bad circumstances, the bird would die and only then would humans know conditions were bad. This bird was very useful since it is much more sensitive than humans; however, it seems wrong to risk bird's lives. Another big factor is population. There has been an exaggerated amount of growth in population in comparison to 50 years ago. With so many people the food demand is being pushed to its limits and one day there might just not be enough.