Film Festival Review

The film festival was great there was a lot of films that were very repetitive and kind of boring. I feel like some of the films showed the most during the previews should not be in the afternoon film festival because it'd take space for other films that haven't screened at all. But overall the audience really liked what we had to show and that was what mattered the most. 

Week of 4/24

This week I realized that with time and the actors that had a tight schedule that was not too flexible i decided to actually film most if my film 

April 17, 2015

This week I got my life together and filmed and edit my music video i will film over the weekend in hopes that i will finish my film so that i can just put everything together and create a film that people can relate to and feel something when they watch it.

Week of April 10

I learned all my songs this week and I'm a little behind schedule to filming but next week i plan to Film, the most important thing was to learn the songs and i got them down. I mixed them properly and i just need to film we should be done in two weeks if the editing is not too complex.

What I Accomplished This Week

This week was pretty successful, although class time isn't really productive since i don't have my violin. But i do try to look up ways to make my songs better and more unique. The biggest accomplishment of this week is that i learned Secrets by One Republic. I've never finished learning a song in such a short period of time. It was definitely not as hard as i thought. i just kept playing the verses and  chorus on a loop, I'm pretty sure my parents aren't very happy for that but in the end when i was done and showed them they were very proud of me. They want my little brother to also play an instrument. This coming up week ill start to film and get a few shots for my film. in addition to the filming i'll also be finishing learning the other songs but i already knew them previously so that'll be done as well. 

What I Accomplished This Week

Firstly, i am doing music video where i will be playing a ensemble of All of Me, Thinking out Loud and Secrets. I'm working with Redani and see if he could play a couple notes for beginning and end beats when my bow resides. This week i have accomplished my sheet music I am currently messing around with garage band to see if i can mix a couple beats together so it won't be too classical on the violin. I am planning on recording the sound over the weekend or if not by tuesday to get my music gong and begin filming the video. The music as well i fixed somethings from the notes that i can reach on the violin. Also, I'm having a little trouble figuring out what my main song is and what I'm going to transition too but my friend had a similar situation and he also plays the drums and is offering to help me so thats what i will do today. 

What Music Means to Me

Music is one of the most sacred things that I think was ever created by mankind. It's not only beautiful but it can also determine your mood and feelings. For example, if you wake up to say your favorite song as an alarm then you probably wont wake up as annoyed and light headed with your annoying clock ringtone. Music is really helpful as-well when i was younger I had terrible coordination. I was so clumsy! I would fall all the time and hurt myself Then when i entered the 4th grade I took these violin classes and they were hard, I wasn't used to sitting straight and holding something over my chin and just using the bow so precise and parallel to the strings, I struggled a lot but since i was able to take my violin home i practiced whenever i got the chance and as i got older and just started reading notes better i realized that i had a lot more coordination. It helped my writing it helped my eyesight and it helped my posture. I can't give all the credit to the violin because my mom would help me if she ever caught me from getting distractions, but i did fall in love with the sound of the violin. The softness that comes from the E to the boldness from the G. It's one of my favorite hobbies and i think music to me means just being able to learn new things and just do whatever you feel will sound right or feel good on an instrument. It's one of the first introductions to music and it will always be one of my favorites. 

Problems & Struggles

I believe that everyone has their own methods where they handle situations best, and make themselves feel better. But somethings that are constant and everywhere will be harder to deal with, specially in high school where people are just beginning to mature and if not confident; vulnerable to become a shadow of negativity. There are people in social circles who discriminate others for certain brands they wear or if they're even wearing a brand at all. And that's disgusting because materialistic people in my opinion are the most narrow headed individuals and no one should ever be victimized over what they are wearing. But it happens, and people have real issues with things like that concerning the way that they feel around other people, making them self conscious and have low self esteem. Also, i think a big problem in high school is fitting in, people do really stupid things to look ''cool'' in front of their friends. They turn their back on people and do really hurtful things to them to not look weak. When in reality if you do those things you are the most weakest person, because no one will ever trust or respect someone who is willing to do those things to people. And I believe in high school that's understandable, brains are developing everyone is always in your business and about gossip, but outside of school when you're on your own and unable to network due to the deficiency of being able to communicate well and being used to having your group of friends, you're going to struggle and it's not something that I would ever do just to look "cool". 

The Most Interesting Person in the World

I have a friend, he's not too bright he isn't very nice or in anyway out of the ordinary, but he's really funny. He'll crack some jokes from time to time but what really makes him someone that ill always be acquainted too is his personality. I met him 9th grade year when he was a new student and he walked into my class and we hit it off right away, he was a class clown and I couldn't help but crack up at every single remark he made. Even the teacher would laugh from time to time. His humor is similar to mine where we can bash each other mercifully and still be great friends, he isn't any ordinary guy, we talk from time to time and he always has something really interesting to say, even if it's about his grocery list i listen because he always finds a way to make me crack up. He's a strange character and that's why he's interesting. 

My Anti-Drug

When I'm in need of some sort of mental uplifting, I do a variation of things. Depending on what happened will affect what i need to do to stay calm. For example, my biggest stress reliever is sleeping, sometimes when I'm upset if I allow myself to relax and just rest when I wake up ill feel better or no as bad. But i cant always just sleep so there are other things that help like, just playing notes on my violin usually keeps my mind off of things, just making notes for songs with my earphones on and making music, which I've been doing quite often recently. The last thing that really i guess is my anti-drug overall is just keeping my self busy or dancing, just being able to focus on other things staying positive and just ultimately not focusing on negativity, its not easy to block out things that bother me but most of time time that i do one of these things i learn things about myself, i de-stress then later ill look over what got me upset and i'll try to be reasonable with myself. In other words, talk to myself, I try and keep my self focused, and practical mostly. 

An Inconvenient Truth

Firstly, id like to address that climate change has all to do with mankind initiating projects for the benefit of wealth and industrialization rather than the well being of the individuals consumption and most importantly The Earth. I'm not one to be factual but from my personal knowledge I can say that if one day Global Warming were to get out of hand and it became a huge struggle to survive, we have no were left to go. There is no other planet we would be able to migrate to as of now, and frankly  we wouldn't deserve to migrate and destroy another planet. We have one Earth filled with the good and the ugly, where countless historical landmarks have occurred and we as morally correct and ethical human beings should be able to recognize that, we should be able to acknowledge our mistakes from the education that we lacked upon Global Warming. But now that we know we are completely responsible for all the climate changes, CO2 impurities, and icebergs melting its time we get rid of our old habits because the changes within time will be much more severe unless we do something about it. 
While, we wait and try to procrastinate on something as severe as the possible definite distinction of mankind we are only speeding the process of something horribly wrong happening that could have been prevented. 
The Icebergs, huge, probably very tedious to study back in the year 2000 when changes were barely noticeable and meek, up until say the following years when changes were noticed almost immediately, these huge masses of ice which have probably been around longer than humans are beginning to melt! Not because of anything else but the heating of the atmosphere due to all the stresses that we put it through. If the Icebergs melted completely the sea level will rise 20 feet. 20 feet of water that will be huge and destroy millions of homes and ruin resources that are essential to our way of life, causing the Earth to panic from a late reaction that again-COUL HAVE BEEN PREVENTED. 
But, its not too late and though we are steadily running out of time, we can slowly but surely change our habits for the benefit of a healthy and well structured Earth.