Week May 30

This week we finished editing our and turned it in, we also started filming our music video and got halfway done with the shots. We only need one or two more shots. We also got a lot of editing done and added the song to our video as well. We should be done in another two or three days maximum.

Week of May22

This week we finally got moving and we filmed our psa. First we changed and tweaked a couple of things we needed to edit in our story boards and screen play. Now we have started editing the video and adding all the cool special effects from the computer program.

Week of May 15

This week we changed our screenplay a bit so we adjusted the storyboards to fit those news shots. We discussed the different shots we were going to take for our film and we also discussed our availability for filming during the next week.

Week of May 8th

This week we did not fet very much done Because we were all testing or studying for the Ap exams. What we did get done was both screenplays and storyboards for both of our videos. We were supposed to film over the weekend but noone in our group picked up the camera and i wasnt able to pick it up because i was at a swim meet.

Week of April 17

This week we finished editing our first film. We showed it to Mr. Lansdown. We also finished our screenplay for our second film along with our story boards. We estimate it should take two days to film every shot we need for that one film. We will start filming sometime next week. We will also start throwing around ideas for our third and final film.

Week of April 10

This week we finished shooting all of our interview scenes. We also reshot our opening scene because we didn't think the quality was very good and we felt we could do better with it. We came up with an idea for our second video .We started a screenplay for that video and we are almost done writing it. We also continued to edit our first film on iMovie. We should be done with our first film soon since we only need to shoot one short scene and then we will be finished. I estimate we will be done sometime soon this week.

Week of April 3rd

John Paul, Carlos, Ramon, Leslie and Julia are on my film team:) This week was very productive. We first shot one of our most important scenes at Veterans park. Later during the week we shot our opening scene at the high school library. Later during the week we shot two interviews that were also important opening shots that were important parts of the video. Two members of our group finished doing our storyboards and we began to put together our clips in Imovie. In a nutshell, we had a very productive week:)

Week of March 27th, 2015

This week we got a lot of things done. We started our storyboards at the same time we started to type out our screenplay so I believe that we actually got pretty far in regards to what we accomplished this week. I feel we are almost done with the screen play we just need to work on the story boards now and collect the props that we are going to use for most of the scenes which should be done sometime next week. I am working with Ramon, Leslie, John Paul, Julia, and Carlos. We are working on a mockumentary about young children preparing to go to college.

What Does Music Mean To You?

Music is the emotional support you receive when you are alone, or simply want to be, or find yourself alone. The feeling of being connected to someone who understands what you are going through emotionally, yet knowing that the person is not really there allows me to connect on an emotional level with the lyrics, the artist vocals, and the beat of the song. My favorite artist is hands down, Lana Del Rey. Her voice is amazing. The beautiful range of her vocals make her music glorious, grand, and create a much more beautiful tone to all of her songs than many other artists. At times I feel like her voice strikes through my soul, and it feels like her voice beats through my body the way my heart pumps blood. My three favorite songs by Lana are Gods and Monsters, Young and Beautiful, and Pretty When I Cry. I have never felt such a personal connection to a person that I do not know, but I have developed a huge devotion to Lana Del Rey that I feed every day by listening to her music. Her music eases me emotionally. It does not make me feel supported, instead, it eases me by giving me the feeling that there is someone who understands what I feel, especially because the lyrics of her songs carry such a sad undertone. In different situations, I can relate to her lyrics.

Problems and Struggles

I think that the most common struggle high school students face is the one with themselves. They aren't happy with their appearance, their physical abilities, their performance in class, and many other things. If these problems get out of hand, like i have seen before, the effects can be devastating. The deterioration of a healthy state of mind can push people to do things or act in ways they would never imagine. Self control is something that the person may no longer be able to reach and it is imperative that their peers and mentors be able to detect that deterioration before it leads them to hurt themselves or others. There was recently an incident on a school campus where one of the staff members father had committed suicide due to depression. The teacher who resumed going to work would continuously tell her students the importance of detecting depression before it was too late to do anything about it. One day when her students returned to class after break, they found the teacher dead. She had hung herself. This is a very real scenario that many people are susceptible to, including students. This situation highlights the importance of giving everyone support, and treating everyone with kindness, respect, and the awareness and ability to detect someone undergoing a problem with themselves or something in their environment.

The Most Interesting Person I Know

I think that there are many different types of interesting people in the world. Many of those people can be found in different places, from high up, to very low in regards to social standards. However, I believe that the person that you will find most interesting every time you think of anything is the person whom you love. The things they say are like magnets and you're automatically attracted to them. Drinking in their words like an elixir that keeps your mind soaring and your heart pumping. You are able to take in the details of their eyes; you count their lashes and notice the way their eyes crinkle when they smile. The way they breath and their chest rolls up and down with every breathe they take like an ocean in constant motion; full of life powerful. Their stories capture my attention. Like the reason why their lower ribs sticks out because it was dislocated in a fight. Or the reason why they have a  scar on their wrist from the time they put the handcuffs on too tightly. I find them interesting because of a profound desire to know more, to have their soul intertwined with my own, deep inside my body. I believe everyone is interesting and everyone has a story, but the attraction and interest has to be created to find it.

My Anti-Drug

At times when my mind has become condensed with the weight of over thinking, I enjoy doing anything that gives me an adrenaline rush. One time after a particularly bad rejection, I decided to search up a national park with a cliff diving location. The extreme adrenaline of the jump, and the rush of the water after a long free-fall gave me an extreme buzz for several days afterward. Although I am not able to copy the physical effects of the cliff dive, I search for different ways to find the adrenaline that will put me on a rush. Hiking also makes a big part of my anti-drug. I love nature and being surrounding by trees always provides me with the emotional ease that distracts me from all of my problems.

An Inconvenient Truth

In an Inconvenient Truth, the thing that surprised me the most was that climate change extremes and the lack of water and other vital resources for our survival is not far around the corner. These are issues that will be upon us in only a couple of years. The glacier problems and the sea levels rising are not something i had thought about previously as an outstanding global warming issue, however, i now know it is one of the main issues in relation to global warming. One of my greatest fears for the future in relation to global warming is he growing threat of the lack of water. An inconvenient Truth strengthened my fear. With the melting of glaciers, almost half of the population of the planet will be left without access to drinkable water. There will definitely be some retaliation against the nations who have greater access to that necessity. As an individual, i already have the ability to see the effects of global warming. It seems to me that each year that goes by seems hotter in regards to temperature. The winters seem shorter and colder, and we are also experiencing a severe drought in our state that has left many areas without water. When I went to lake Perris after three years since  my last visit, the park seemed to be an entirely different place. The grass was dry, there was less wildlife, the trees had no leaves, and everything seemed dead. An inconvenient truth is a film everyone should watch because thee needs to be more awareness about the negative effects we are having on our planet. It needs to stimulate the response from people to end global warming an its negative effects before it is too late to solve the problems we have brought upon ourselves.