Week of June 12th

I thought the film festival was very good, its was very nicely planned. The only thing I didn't like was that the longest video was the least entertaining one to me and it played twice, so I thinks something else should have  replaced it. I really liked that the first video I made with my first group "Too Slick Too Soon, " got a very good reaction from the crowd.

Week of June 5th

This week my group and I have finally completed our video with the recording and everything. We are adding final touches to the video, such as some minor sound effect and editing small little mistakes.

Week of May 29

This week we finally finished filming our video. We already started editing our clips.

Week of May 18

This week my group and I came up with new ideas for our video and we filmed them yesterday with our new group member Christina.

Week of May 15

We are currently in the process of still filming and we are finishing up some last touches to our storyboard  because we realized that some parts needed to be corrected. We also had to add certain things we thought would be better.

Week of May 8th

This week my partner and I have started to film some of our ideas. We started doing some of the first scenes that we drew on our story board.

Week of May 1

My group and I have finally decided what movie we want to make a music video from. We just haven't decided what we want to do for the video but that's what we have been starting to think about.

Week of April 24

This week, Elisa and I have moved away from our group and now we are working on our own. It was hard for us to work with other people, because we both have busy schedules and sometimes the other people would get impatient with us and we couldn't work with them. Now Elisa and I have started drawing the scoreboard of our new video and we pitched our ideas to Mr. Lansdown.

Week of April 17

This week we have finished some small editing corrections that needed to be done. We had Mr. Lansdown take a look and give us some feedback and we corrected what he said to correct. We finally finished our entire video and now Elisa and I are thinking on new ideas for our next video.

Week of April 10

During this week we have started inputting the videos into the right places. We arranged all the different clips so that the story can start to make more sense and to get people to feel more emotions towards the clips we have input. We also did a voice over that we're going to use to try and get our point across. We have also started to look for the music we are going to put. This is the part we have most struggled in because it's hard looking for a song that brings out all the emotion that we want the viewers to feel.

Week of April 3rd

This week on Tuesday March 31st we continued filming for our PSA video. We went to the park in bell near the community center. Yolanda took her dogs to the park and we recorded her playing with them and having fun. We also recorded other random people with their dogs. It was supposed to show how happy both the owners and the dogs are.

Week of march 27th

In my production group, we have already started recording. First of all we had to think what kind of video we wanted to do and we decided to do a PSA video about adopting a pet and the danger on animals being inside animal shelters. Then one of our group members began to do  the story board on different angles and the way we would film. Then they went to the dog pound to record. We imported all the clips and we began to edit them. We have already started to put our video together but we still need to record a few more clips for the ending parts.

What Music Means To Me

Music is an escape from all the things going on around you. It can automatically change your mood into something better. I know that for me the music I listen to changes my mood into a much better one. It makes me happy makes me wake up and gives me energy, sometimes makes me want to dance. Music means, happiness to me, and for other people it might not mean that, depending on the type of music they listen to. Some of my favorite genres are rap and hip-hop, but not old school rap, much more modern. My most definite favorite has to be Kanye West, I just like the way he thinks so highly of his music, because he knows it’s so well done. His music always has a different type of beat and it’s always so catchy and each album has very different characteristics. I also listen to some types of Spanish music, especially since Spanish music makes me want to dance.

Problems of Struggles

Students all over world all face similar problems. Students at Bell High School face problems among their peers, it’s all mostly personal problems that sometimes might make it hard to go to school, like for instance if someone is being bullied it might be hard for them to do well in school. Other problems they might face is with their teachers. I know it’s hard it to get along with teachers because often times they feel superior to everyone else and many students don’t like that, so they’ll try to rebel against the teacher and start talking back. Some of the most common problems have to do with work and grades. Many students can’t keep up with all of the work or maybe they’re too lazy to do it, or they might have many other distractions, and they fall behind. When they fall way behind, they might just give up on school and that’s when all the serious problems begin to happen.

My Anti-Drug

My anti drug is going out and spoiling myself. When I feel down or if I'm feeling stressed out or whatever, something that always makes me feel better is going out and buying myself something. It is usually something that I’ve been wanting for a while like some sort of clothing item, especially shoes, or anything that has to do with makeup. I love buying new makeup because it’s something I enjoy doing and I like going into the aisles looking for something just like when I buy shoes, I like looking at the different styles, and it makes me feel better when I pay it. My anti-drug is just making myself feel better and going to buy me something. 

An Inconvinient Truth

I learned about how we are killing our planet with the stuff we do in our everyday lives. We had all known about global warming and how everything is our fault but Al Gore went in depth about climate changes and about how bad the planet is being affected. What most surprised is when he began to show the before and after pictures on some places being affected by global warming. Lots of the places were being destroyed in such a small period of time. Places that are made up of ice are melting in small time period and lots of the animals there are being affected. He said that they have found polar bears that have drowned because they can’t find any pieces of land within miles and they can’t keep swimming for long periods of time.