Week of June 12th

    Week of June 12th we were preparing for the film festival that was on wednesday.  The film festival was great; there were so many good movies that really showed the incredible ability bell students have in filmmaking.  The intro to the film festival was very creative and set the hype mood for the rest of the film festival.  I had no favorite movie because they were all great; being my first film festival to watch and be kind of a part of it was magnificent.  As well, we were planning our next and last film.  We still don't know what we're doing , but for sure it will be a music video.

Week of June 5th

        In the beginning of the week of June 5th, Monday and Tuesday, Cloud 9 production and I were editing the last thing we needed for our film.  All we needed to finally finish our song was a clean version of the song we used for our music video.  We were't able to find it until Mr. Lansdown found it for us and gave it to us, so that we can finish our movie.  We finished it and turned it i on Wednesday, which was the last day to turn in a movie for the film festival. The next day we began to conversations on what our next movie was going to be and what it our movie was going to be about.  We decide to make another music video, but we still didn't know on what song.  Finally, it is friday and we are going to figure out everything for our next music video.

Week of May 29th

            On the first day of school, tuesday, we decided to film at my house.   We were filming the last scenes we need at my house; we were filming the scenes where the girl gets kidnapped.  It took us about and 1 hr and a half to finish what we needed.  The next two days, Wednesday and Thursday, we were editing the whole movie because in our heads we thought we had everything.  Yesterday we ended up figuring out that we needed a few more shots for our film, so we filmed at my house again and shot the shots we needed.  Finally, yesterday we finished filming all we needed and today we will try to finish our whole film.

Week of May 22nd

     Week of May 22nd was a filming week for our production company.  From Sunday to Thursday we kept filming what we need and now we only need a few more scenes to shoot and we'll begin editing and finishing our film by hopefully wednesday.  So far we have filmed all school scenes and a few outside scenes at home.  For today, Friday we will be importing the footage we have so far.

Week of May 15

                 Week of May 9th, there wasn't much done.  The film production and I planned to film thursday after school and wednesday during 4th, but none of that happened.   We didn't get to film because of plans changing with our film production.  Because of what happened we began making other plans on other days to film.  Also, during the week there was a lot of AP testing and  CST testing which limited the amount of planning we had with each there within the film production.

Week of May 7

                 The Week of May 7, not a lot was done.  The most we have done has been the finished  storyboards, which did take some time, and on iMovie, the beginning of the movie.  We didn't finish a lot, due to the AP exams occurring during the week for the juniors.  Now all we need is to film the music video and edit it and we'll be done.

Week of May 1st

           This week, we so far have pitched our idea to Mr. Lansdown so that we can begin planning our movie and how we are going to do it.  We finally pitched it and since Wednesday we've been woking on our storyboards to plan out all the angles we are going to use in our music video.  So far we have the beginning of the music video and are moving towards getting our final actors for the music video.  Not only that, but during this week we figured out what jobs we were doing that would contribute to this music video.  Overall, that was all we did for the week of May 1st.

Week of April 24th

         For this week, we pretty much finished our movie.  The first two days of the week we finished everything for our PSA and finally completed it. The rest of the week we showed Mr. Lansdown our movie to put in tote hard drive that we needed to put in our movie.  Then we had to fill out an application for the Film Festival so our movie can come out in the festival.  Overall, that was all we did this whole week.

Week of April 17th

        This week of April 17 we have been working on finishing our PSA.  We finally finished filming everything we needed and started putting everything together in iMovie. Well, actually the day we actually finished filming everything we needed was yesterday on Thursday.  However, before that we were editing the parts we did have to see how far we could get it and how it would look.  So far now we just need to add the background music. We finally chose one song after searching for a long time what song to use.  Now all we need is to put in is the finishing clips by editing them into the PSA and adding the song to finally finalize our PSA.   For one thing it took us a while to finish because we had to re do it again.   The first PSA didn't come out as well as we hoped, but learning from our mistakes and using what've we've learned in this film class, we improved our PSA.

Week of April 10th

              On Monday we filmed a few scenes for our PSA.  It took sometime to shoot those scenes because we experimented with a few angles on how to shoot the scene.  The next day we came into class and started importing the footage we filmed the day before.  It took almost all period because it was a shortened day.  On wednesday we edited the few scenes we had so me can start seeing how the setup of the movie was going to be.  We pretty much just edited the first scene of our PSA and the ending message.  Both Wednesday and Thursday we were trying to figure out what our ending message was going to be and what background music would fit for our PSA.  On Thursday late afternoon we filmed again.  We got some footage from the action scenes that we planned to occur in our PSA. We stilled haven't finished filming our PSA, but all we need now is a few more scenes and finish editing and uploading all the footage.

Week April 3rd

                   This week of March 30th - April 3rd, my film production and I were still editing our PSA.   The most we did was figure out what background music to put throughout the whole  movie and finish our PSA.  After putting in the music we kept on over looking our movie to see if we needed to add transitions or fix anything we needed.  For a while after finishing editing our PSA we began planning on our next film.  However, we remembered that we had to show Lansdown our footage.  Finally thinking we finished our PSA, we showed it to Mr. Lansdown to see if he had anything else to say.   We figured out that we haven't really finished our PSA because we knew that we can do better than our earlier finished footage, so now I guess we are going to add more footage to the PSA and make it better or make it a narrative film: still deciding.

Week of March 27th

                    This week of March 27th, my production and I have gotten many things done for our PSA so far.  On tuesday March 24, we finished filming our PSA.  The next day after hours of filming, we started importing all the footage we had into the computer. Taking the whole period to import all our footage and looking through to see if we had everything, we just waited for the net day to come.  So far for the last two days of the week, we busted started editing our movie.  So far with the editing all we have done was figuring out what clips we needed for the PSA.  Afterwards, we began setting up the clips in iMovie in the type of sequence we wanted and cutting the clips we didn't need.

What Music Means to Me

                       To me, music is a type of gateway out of this world.  Music usually lets me take a break from my world and lets me into others.  Listening to music calms me down a lot when something in my life is going on or when nothing is going on and I just want a feel of fun throughout music.  I listen to almost all kind of music, and I like them all because they all set my mood to either be happy, sad, mad, excited, or frustrated, however I would rather be happy and excited than any other moods.   Plus, if i want to know that I'm not alone in this world, music makes me imagine of whats going on in the artists' lives and if I can relate.  I always think of music as a type of confession from music artists and many of them might have gone or are going through what I am.  I'm not a musical person like those whose life is all about music, but it is a part of me.   Music isn't my everything, but it can be something that helps me and will always be there for when I need to get out or when I just need a little bit of happiness or relaxation.

Problems and Struggles

                    At this moment I'm not facing any problems or struggles, but I have noticed other people struggling or having problems in bell.  I guess one struggle that most students face or have faced is having to pass their classes to graduate.  Everyone is different and everyone learns different and at different pace.  Sometimes your teacher might go to fast with a lesson and you still don't get it, but your teacher noticed that most of your classmates did so they ignored your struggle.  Not all teachers do that, but their might be a situation where a bell student is actually in that situation right now and so is not passing their class.  Besides just having to pass their classes, others struggle on passing very important tests like CAHSEE, SAT, ACT, and etc.  Especially now its harder for some students because the state has changed CST standards to common core, so now its harder to get used to a new standard compared to one that you've grown up with.  In fact, a few people in bell struggle to fit in with a crowd like any other high school.  A lot of student worry about what crowd will like you, the way you dress, they way you are, or liking the same things you like. Having to impress people in High school is a big struggle because to impress others it would depend on how you dress and act.  I guess they're are many struggles for every student in bell, but some aren't noticed.  

The Most Interesting Person in the World

The most interesting person I know is my grandma.  Next week will be my grandma's birthday and she is going to be 90 years old.  The last time she came to visit my family and me was about 3 months ago. It was during my vacation and what I absolutely remember about my vacation and her visit was all the stories she was telling me about when she was young. I still remember one distinct story that she told me and I found fascinating was the day she met Cantinflas, before he got famous.  I was fascinated by that story and surprised that she never told me before about this, but i guess it was because she barley remembered when she saw commercials on tv about the Cantinflas movie coming out in theaters.  Her life to me was very surprising and interesting because she was a very outgoing young lady in her time and so she encountered many memorable and fascinating things.   We would and still talk for many hours on the phone and I would never get tired of hearing her life stories.  Even now she is still an outgoing person even if she needs help to go to places because of her age.  Still now she's also very happy all the time and maybe inappropriate to say now, but I'm surprised that she still drinks and knows how to party in her 90's.  Overall, I think my grandma is the most interesting person!

My Anti Drug

          My anti drugs are playing volleyball, my parents, and music.  Playing volleyball keeps me busy and distracted from anything that may harm my health or may harm me in general. When in a sport you can't be under the influence of any type of drug because it can affect the way your body works during a game or practice.  Concentrating on volleyball keeps my mind away from thinking about drinking, smoking, or doing any other type of drugs that can have a really bad effect on me.  Although volleyball does help me keep away from drugs, my family is a bigger anti drug.  My parents are the mains one who influence me to not do anything wrong or get my mind off of things.  They give me great advice about everything and support me at anytime.  Plus listen to music is my third anti drug. I let go from the world and just relax when going through anything or someone trying to make me do domething wrong.