Week of March 27th

During this week, my film group and I came up with a subject to work with and how to incorporate one of the film making categories in creating our film a reality. Our group decided to create a mockumentary/narrative about a secret agent, who is set out to destroy the film that is to reveal the truth about the secret service as a whole. My film group is consisted of Joseph Castro, Jorge Villegas, Gilbert Lomas, and Edward Mendez. This week, we constantly tried coming up with a set idea on creating our film a reality. We started with a script, and just kept going off the basis of that one script. Our ideas were constantly changing and we did not know how to get the right ones out onto the script to create the best visual representation of our film. Every single day this week, was just constantly kept working on the script. New ideas were constantly being brought up into the mix of the movie idea, but we always someone how knew to create a compromise in all the ideas we came up with. We finally have a set idea on how the film will be written, represented, and shown on the screen to the best of our imaginative ability.

What Music Means to Me

Music gives me an outlet to be free and reckless in believing what I want to believe. Music gives me a cure from the everyday diseased world, it gives me an opportunity to listen and feel what I listen to, without anyone telling me that is not right. When I listen to and write music, it is able to cleanse me, by listening and relating to how others feel, or simply to let go of all my thoughts and be who I want to be. The genre of music that is able to give a sense of real life, and real stories behind them all; is the genre of underground rap/hip hop. Every single song, comes with a story board, a plot, a relatable subject, and lines that mean something to the writer and possibly the listener. The number one artist that I am listening to right now in the underground industry is Logic. The name may say it all, but Logic has a way of embracing his stories without any care. Many songs come to mind when I think of Logic, but the one that I have been listening to nonstop as of late is the song off of his new Album Under Pressure called "Nikki" in his song, he relates back to when he was a addicted to nicotine, he reveals all and how it broke down his life, in this song he writes, "Everyday I wonder who i am, who will i be, where will i go/ What will they write upon my grave?" I can relate so much to this line, this question, questions my way of thought, I wonder how will people understand who I am after I have recorded and wrote all on paper. "Every body talks and every body listens and somehow the truth always comes up missing" This line comes from Drake's "Say What's Real" this also gives me a sense and how to question the world and what the truth actually means in the world.

Problems and Struggles

The problems and struggles that a typical high school student must face every day is the one struggle of decision making and making the decisions that will impact their future forever. In High School we are all judged by how we dress, how we speak, and generally how we look. The general student will say the struggle of high school, is coming in every single day hoping not to be judged by others. We as student have to come in day in and day out, creating a self image of our future selves and make sure people understand that image as well. Throughout the four years of the world known as High School, every year comes with a new problem and struggle. In ninth grade, freshman just want to be noticed and make sure they can survive the first year of high school. As the years go by it gets somewhat easier, but also gets somewhat difficult. Once the first year of high school is a achieved, the rest of the years seem to get easier as the student seems used to going to the thing called high school every single day. Although as the years start coming down and nearing the end, we as high school students run into the problems of how to view and create our life long future after high school. As a senior problems and struggles are faced every single day, trying to balance out school work, with a job, sports, finishing college apps, and trying to find money to pay for college in scholarships. Problems and struggles are encountered everyday, it is the jobs of the perseverant and problem solvers to over come the daily obstacles, because at the end of it all we are just human beings trying to become a somebody in this world.

The Most Interesting Person in the World!

The most interesting person in the world that I personally know, or rather have had the opportunity to get to know was my Uncle Michael Vera. Every single time that me and my dad would go visit my Uncle, he would always have a story or two to tell based upon his past life. I could always just sit down and listen to both my Uncle and Father go back and forth on their child hood memories. My uncle would always know how to make me laugh and crack a joke, in between his stories. Their was never a dull moment when talking to him. His life experiences gave him the opportunity to teach me about the many different aspects on life and what it has to offer. My uncle Michael would always give me advice whether it had been, how to fix my basketball shot, how to fix my baseball swing, or how to talk to girls; I knew I could always learn something new when I would talk to my Uncle Michael. Unfortunately those times are now gone, when I could hear my uncle talk about his childhood and growing up in the rugged and tough city of Compton. My uncle passed away last year, he was and will always be The Most Interesting Man in the World.