Week of June 12th

We finished recording everyone we need for our film. Now all that is left is to finish editing.

Week of June 5th

We've started to film our documentary. Things are coming out great, people are giving us the answers we wanted them to give. Now we just need to edit and a bit more filming.

Week of May 29th

We've chosen to do a different film, a better film. We have our idea of making a documentary on our Bell High School Swim Team. Now we just need to put or ideas into action.

Week of May 22nd

We've began choosing the best angle for our film. We've chosen great spots to film and a good story for our film. We've began filming, but we still need more to go.

Week of May 15th

This week we picked out our actors and the whole plot for the film, we're ready to begin filming.

Week of May 8th

We thought of a new film, a better film. We've started to plan it out, but aren't completely done with that yet.

Week of May 1st

What my group and I have done is discuss the plot of our next film. We have picked our actor and picked the place where our film will be taken.

Week of April 17th

This past week my group and I have tried to come up with ideas for our next film. We finally decided that we will be making a documentary and a music video for our last 2 films. We haven't decided on which we would do first, but that's not really important. The documentary is going to be on my friends band and the music video will be on a biology music video that my group members also have to do for AP Biology.

Week of April 10th

This week we have finished making our PSA with conveys our message that you shouldn't steal. I think the film came out better than any of us expected it to be. Mr. Lansdown also helped with some suggestions to help our film flow better and look better and it really helped. Now we're on to our next film.

Week of April 3rd

This past week my group has got a lot of great things done. We had to wait about 2 days  to start filming because not all of our group member were here. When everybody was finally here, we got to work. We filmed everything without playing around and we actually finished our PSA during our film period which was quite a relief. Now we are just editing our film to perfection.

Week of March 27th

The people in my production company is John De Anda, Kevin Rincon, and Rob. We are going to be filming a PSA about not stealing, a similar idea to the Meth PSA's. Throughout the week, my group and I have finished drawing the Story Board and getting all the supplies we need for the film such as posters and money which his basically all we really need for this film. We have also picked where we will be shooting and the days we will be able to film.

What Music Means to Me

Music helps me because I can relate to what some artist went through as a child and it helps me realize that they went through so I can do it too. Some artist even went through worst stuff so it makes me realize like why am i complaining about my problems when someone has had it worst and has made it through that adversity. Music helps to clear my mind as well. Also, sometimes when I sing to a song (usually rap) and it's just showing anger, it helps me relieve some of the stress I have bottled up inside of me. Some of the artist that I listen to are Drake, Kanye West, Eminem, Kendrick Lamar, and J. Cole. J. Cole, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar are more of a story-telling artist. They tell stories of their past and how hard they've had it which is why they are some of my favorites. They also put a lot of emotion into the music when they rap and I can definitely catch those emotions and it helps me really get into the song and relieve stress. Kanye West usually raps about how he knows he's the best and he doesn't really care for what anybody thinks, that he does what he wants. I love that about Kanye because sometime I feel I care too much about other so when I listen to songs like Stronger, it really just helps me get in touch with reality and helps me stop caring for other peoples opinion. Basically, music is like a guide in life for me, it teaches life lessons that I don't think I can learn any other way.

Problems & Struggles

One of the struggles I go through is being a student athlete. Our coaches always tell us school comes first as it does in the name "Student-Athlete". The hardest thing is putting that into my mind and into my heart. I know school is my number one priority but i let the love to my sport get in the way of that. I'm always staying late after school either working out or playing football because I want to be great. But that is the main source of my struggle as I get home not wanting to do homework. But I thrive for success which is why I stay up doing homework. I'm always up at around 2 or 3 in the morning trying to finish up my homework. I've been doing this since about freshman year and it has been my greatest struggle thus far. I need to learn to manage my time so I can get homework done early and go to bed early,  but still work hard in my sport. WHat has helped me a lot is study hall in 6th period.I know I hate staying up so I try to get most of my homework done then and I do, which is why I feel all this stress fading away.

The most Interesting Person in the world!

The most interesting person in the world is my brother-in-law Alex. Alex is always up to something, he always has to find something to keep himself occupied. When i first met him, he was really into buying roosters. One day he just bout like 5 of them and put them all in his backyard. What was the reason being? there wasn't a reason. I asked why he bought them and he said he just felt like buying some roosters, that he just wanted to see what it felt like to own some roosters. After about a month he got over the roosters and bought a huge fish tank. He put all sorts of fish and water snakes and crabs and turtles. Again, he did it to see what it would look like if he had a big tank fish with a lot of sea creatures. The about a week later he started building batting cages in his backyard. The crazy thing is, they actually work, it functions like a normal batting cage that you would pay to use at a park. Now he's trying to find a place to build a lot of batting cages and start his own business with that. So whenever I'm bored, I know i can go with Alex because he is always up to something, he's never really just not doing anything.

My Anti Drug

My Anti Drug is playing football and listening to music. Playing football helps a lot to relieve stress. Whenever I have a bad day or i feel stressed out, I look forward to playing football so much. Playing football clears my mind entirely and makes me care about nothing else. But football is not a year-round sport so I am not always able to rely on that. What I would say helps me the most is listening to music because I can listen to it any time I want. Music helps me because I can relate to what some artist went through as a child and it helps me realize that they went through so I can do it too. Some artist even went through worst stuff so it makes me realize like why am i complaining about this when someone has had it worst and has made it through that adversity. And like football, music helps to clear my mind as well. Also, sometimes when I sing to a song (usually rap) and it's just showing anger, it helps me relieve some of the stress I have bottled up inside of me.

An Inconvenient Truth

I personally loved this documentary by Al Gore. I've always had some interest in global warming but never knew much about it and why it was such a big deal, but Al Gore made me realize why this climate change is very important. I recall Gore showing the graph where the CO2 levels in the atmosphere had never passed 300 and he then showed how we are far above the 300 mark and the CO2 level are still expected to rise even higher. This stuck out to me the most because of the impact this situation will cause if it is not fixed. If the continues, the atmosphere will thicken and the earth will become extremely hot cause glaciers and land where there is only ice to melt. With so much melting, the sea levels will rise and the outer parts of our countries land will be covered in water such as Florida.  This really stuck out to me because it will take the life of millions of people who live in these places. Also, I've always wanted to live in Florida because it's such a beautiful place and there are great sites there as well, and to hear that parts of Florida will be covered in water just makes me wonder if I actually want to live in Florida now. Also, with the atmosphere getting thicker, we wont be able to live on Earth anymore because it wont be in living condition, it will get too hot and us humans wont be able to take it. With the Earth having no more humans, we will have just ended the entire humanity and as far as we know, we will have ended life in the whole universe.