Week of June 12

This week we had the film festival. I really enjoyed it. There were many good films, especially the comedies, they made me laugh, and it was amazing to see my own film on the screen and see the crowd's reaction to it. I was very proud of the films everyone made this year and I beleive we did an amazing job. The films were very entertaining and although i saw one or two in every festival, making the effect they had wear off, I wasn't really bored during the show at all. It was a great show.

Week of June 5th

This week we edited our music video. We had some problems in uploading the scenes but we were able to uploaded it by tuesday and begin editing. We also filmed for our third film, a horror film, monday and tuesday and we have uploaded the scenes that we have done. We have also started edting those scenes, and we are going to finish filming this weekend. That is what we did the week of June 5th.

Week of May 29th

This week we filmed the acting parts of the music video during the weekend, in golf and stuff. Then, this wednesday, we stayed after school to film the dancing scenes in the auditorium. We have uploaded the film and have started editing. That is what we did the week of May 29th.

Week of May 15th

For the week of May 15th we didn't get to do much. We had AP exams at the beginning of the week so we didn't meet up the first days. On thursday and friday is when all of us were together so we just practiced for the dance in he video again and made more scenes to film for the acting part. That is what we did on the week of May 15th.

Week of May 8th

In the week of May 8th we mostly just practiced the dance out in the hallway and brainstormed the scenes for the film. We planned the location of the film and the scenes we were going to do. That is what we mostly did on the week of May 8th

Week of May 1st

This week we continued practicing the dance moves for the music video. We actually changed the song, although most of the moves stayed the same so we didn't waste that much time. We also borrowed a camera yesterday and used it to see the different angles we could film the dance in. We also finished memorizing all the dance moves for the song yesterday. We just need to fix little mistakes, make sure that it flows, but we practically have the dance complete now. All we need to do is plan the acing scenes and plan our filming schedule. That is what we did the week of May 1st.

Week of April 24th

This week we turned in our film, the PSA, to the film festival. We also practiced the dance moves for the music video and we started discussing the schedule for filming. We also discussed if we should film our next film while we are practicing the dance moves so we don't lose time. We have been practicing in the west quad the whole week. That is mostly all we did the week of the 24th.

The Week of April 17th

This week we pitched our music video and our action film. We chose the song we are going to use in the music video, a spanish song. We then started choreographing the dance moves of the music video. Most of this week we have spent in the dark side practicing and changing the dance moves. We already have around one minute of the dance and we hope that our choreographer has the moves for the whole song done by Monday so that we can just practice and perfect it next week and hopefully start filming. That is what we have done on the week of April 17th.

Week of April 10th

       This week we re-filmed our PSA and finished it. I like how it came out. The scenes are less choppy and they look well together. The song goes with the theme of living life that we have for the film and it is under the one minute requirement. The scenes are all mostly in the park and its about people doing stuff that they enjoy and essentially living life to the fullest. We got many different people in the scenes and so I feel that it looks better because its not just one group of people, the diversity makes it seem more real. We also started planning for our second film. Its going to be a music video in a carnival and its going to be about finding love unexpectedly. We already have the basics of what the story in the video is going to be so now we are looking for the song. That is what my team and I did in the week of April 10.

Week of April 3rd

This week we redid our PSA. We decided to change the theme to enjoying life because we believed it would be easier to get shots of children playing, and people hugging, and smiling, than the shots of doing acts of kindness. Especially because the acts of kindness always turned out to be too long and we didn't like how the scenes came out when we cut them to make them fit into the one minute limit. So we planned our new PSA and we decided that today and Sunday we are going to film for the PSA. We also started planning our second film which would be a narrative action film. We started the story boards and started getting the supplies for the second film. And we decided around which days we are going to practice and film for the action film. We would start acting and practicing next week and the week after that we would start filming. That is what we did on the week of april.

Week of March 22nd

My production company, Stellar Productions, is currently working on a PSA. My members, Alejandra Leal, Ailyn, Rafael, Kevin, Maritza, and I worked out the theme of the PSA and planned out the scenes that we would film. Our PSA is about caring, being thoughtful of others, and trying to bring an uplifting mode. We filmed the PSA at Salt Lake Park on Tuesday and we have been editing the scenes since then. We are considering re-filming some scenes but we aren't sure yet, so far that is all we have done this week for our PSA.

What Music Means to Me

Music to me is a way to relax. When i want to block out the noise around me, or I'm too lazy to find something to do, I listen to music. Its my entertainment on car rides and I listen to it when I can't fall asleep. Sometimes, when i hear the beat or lyrics of a certain song, I'm inspired to write. And whenever I'm stuck on my writing, but I don't want to give up on the story yet, i listen to music for inspiration. Music, to me, isn't something that i absolutely need, that i can't live without, but it is something that helps me with my anti-drug and it can fill up the quiet, or block out the noise, when i need it to. It helps me focus and it inspires me, so its important to me.

Problems and Struggels

There are many problems and struggles students at Bell High can face. From hard classes, to bullying, to money troubles, to parent hood. The most common, I believe, would be the classes. Most students are having trouble in at least one class. They either don't understand the instruction or don't understand their homework, and many of them try to brave through it on their own without seeking help, because many are not used to asking for help and receiving it. Another problem faced by some students at this school would be bullying. Bullying is everywhere, no matter how big or small the school is there is always one person being bullied. This is a problem because bullying can lead to a lot of different outcomes, form low self esteem, to depression, to some extreme cases where some kids may become suicidal. These are some of the problems that affect Bell High students.

The Most Interesting Person in the World

To me the most interesting person would have to be my cousin Mayra. When she was younger she had traveled to Europe through the study abroad program in her college and so she has many stories of all the places she's visited and the things she's done. To me it seems interesting because I want to travel too and to hear my cousin's stories inspires me to actually accomplish my goal.

My cousin also has many theories and interesting ideas about so many topics that we could talk about anything for hours together. I learned a lot from my cousin and although she is married, has children, and lives in miami now whenever we meet up she has always has time to talk to me and always has some new story to tell me. She is my role model and when I was younger she was my world. She isn't my world now but she still inspires me to be my best and she always knows what to say to capture my attention.

My Anti-Drug

My Anti-Drug would have to be writing. When I want to relax and forget about everything going on around me I write. I always have hundreds of details in my head about stories, plot lines, something I can write down. So I get those details and create worlds and characters when i want to focus on something else. It relaxes me and I am able to lose myself in the worlds I'm creating. When I finish what I am working on I feel accomplished and proud of what i created. I usually don't finish any long term story lines because I always have another idea popping up that I have to write down but I think that helps me even more because when i get bored of an idea or get lost on my current story I always have a dozen others I can start on. I love writing because it keeps me busy, it lets me put my imagination into words.

The Inconvenient Truth

What stood out to me the most from the film, an inconvenient truth, is the rising of the heat in the atmosphere and how that would melt the ice so much that sea level would rise. The sea rising up to twenty feet, enough to engulf the coastal cities all over the world, scares me. I live in the coast and to think that my home might be flooded, that land, businesses, resources, and people might be taken underwater, is absolutely terrifying.

It has made me realize what is at stake, how much we can lose if we don't try to stop global warming. So much land might be taken away, so many people might be displaced, and there is already such a big population on earth. If our land is reduced we might end up being very overpopulated and that could bring in many more problems economically, politically, and environmentally. We might not have enough land for crops, and cattle, and homes. This could lead to more people hungry, more people without jobs, more people without homes. It could actually lead to fighting within countries, even to a war, and then we will have much more than global warming to worry about.