Before I started working at Media Arts Center San Diego, I felt a bit nervous, but once I started, I felt a lot ready. When I started, I had to choose a clip from a movie that made me feel interested, and I chose a clip from “The Revenant”, which I never seen the movie before, but the clips that I watched from it interest me. The next day, me, Walter, Gustavo, and Fernanda, all from my school learned how to use the camera and microphone, then learned how to save the footage recorded on cameras and the audio recorded on the microphone on the computers we used. We then went to the Hoover High School, where students from around the world who go to school there explain stories based on their race. After doing all that, we thought up some topics for our very own short documentary film, which we chose Food Justice. We then decided which role to take. Walter chose to be the Director of Photography, Gustavo chose to be the Director of the film itself, Fernanda chose to be the producer, and I chose to be the Narrator. Before we edit the film, we went to both Hoover High School and Crawford High School to interview students to have them explain what Food Justice means to them, and what it looks like. Then, we went to edit the film and it’s trailer, by syncing the audio recording with the video interview footage, thinking up music that could fit into the film, and using some video footage to have some cutscenes throughout the film. On the final day, we premiered the film at the Digital Gym Cinema right at Media Arts Center. Everyone loved the film and trailer, and they got a chance to ask us some questions, and I felt very proud of myself for being a part of the internship, and that I really miss being at internship.
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What I did to contribute to Media Arts was to create a documentary with my group about Food Justice in City Heights. The things that I contributed for the film include the trailer, the poster, and the students I interviewed last week at Hoover High School and Crawford High School. How we got to pick our topic, Food Justice, is that we decided on what topic to pick, and when we picked our topic, we had to research it more often, and find out why it's happening in nearby places, such as City Heights, which is our main focused place. I think that it is important to make a documentary about Food Justice because of how people from different cultures couldn't be able to eat any food that represents meat or any food type, and probably some are being forced to eat it as well. Mostly they don't have access to healthy food based on their culture or race. On Friday, we're showing our documentary to the community which will help make this issue more exposed.
Something that interested me was finding clips from a movie that I got to choose from during the first week of internship. It was very fun to do, because my mentor, Alex wanted us to do that, and tell why it interests us a lot. And like first week’s blog post, I chose 4 clips from “The Revenant”, which interested me a lot. I didn’t remember the other movies that my other students chose, except for one by Walter, who chose a clip from “Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World”. Despite all that, this was the first day of my internship. That day stuck out to me the most, with me and other students picking what stuff we want to do or show other people. I enjoyed picking out stuff because it’s very fun to do, even if I didn’t have any ideas for what to choose. And I really enjoy seeing other people’s works because sometimes they could lead me to thinking up ideas like how they did for their work. The purpose of the whole idea was to explain why it was interesting, what you liked about it, including the work, the style, etc. What I enjoy about films is that when a director makes a movie his/her style, it motivates the tone of the film, making people like me want to see the film. Watching films could make me influence films, based on their tone of film, and maybe get some inspiration from the films that I watch.
There´s no pictures I took for the last days of this week, but I´ll try to take some tomorrow. But right now, here is my post. Yesterday, Mr. Aurmon, Mr. I, and a few other teachers from HTMCV came to visit my internship place and the place where I work, then we explained what short documentary project we are working on, and instead of gun violence, we focused more on Food Justice, and I´m still researching it. How I would describe my mentor, Alex, is that she was patient and she good at explaining things, and even if they were hard to explain, she would explain it easier. Natalia Valerdi-Rodgers, on the other hand, is similar to Alex in my opinion. What I could do from them to become a better student is to explain things more, because I want to make it easy for me to explain like how others explain to me. Here’s my Mentor, Alex (left) & Natalia (Right) creating a checklist for the equipment we have for our short documentary film.
I just got started at 8:55 AM at Media Arts Center and it got off to a pretty good start. In fact, It started out like no other. We had the chance to choose clips from movies that interest us, then we sent them to our mentor, that way she could show us the clips that interest us. After watching the clips, we had to explain why it interests us, and I chose some clips from a movie called ¨The Revenant¨, Even though I haven't watched the movie yet. The people at Media Arts Center were very nice, especially my mentor, Alexandra Wesser (goes by Alex). What I learned at the workplace was how to use the camera, and other parts of the camera as well, including the microphone. Where I worked was a computer lab, including a secret room which holds camera props and more. We always work in here, use the computers in there, and work with each other to think up ideas. There was also a Cinema there, where they showcase some movies, some may be popular, some may not be. Sometimes, when my mentor isn't here, we would think up more ideas for the short documentary film that we´re going to create, and research them as well. One of the ideas that I came up with was gun violence in City Heights, but I have to research that more often, and find an organization to partner up with. I´m feeling like I´m learning a lot this week, and I can't wait for what's going to happen next week. This was the Hoover High School, Where we got to listen to students from around the world share out where they come from, or what their race is.
There’s some ways that things like Video Games could affect your brain, and that is Anatomy & Physiology. Anatomy is one of the things that affect your brain, and is concerned with the structure of living things, like humans, animals, etc. Physiology is another one of the things that affect your brain, and deals with some functions that go with living organisms. These could either lead to positive effects, or negative effects. But in my opinion, I think that the positive effects outweigh the negative effects. I put the reason why video games on Teen Brains in a synopsis that I created, and it will be shown at the Chula Vista Zine Fest. Here are some of the ways that Anatomy & Physiology could affect someone’s brain when they’re playing video games:
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One thing we learned from this semester was nucleic acids and DNA. Nucleic acids are a class of biomolecules that are found in all living organisms, including us. It can store genetic information, including DNA, which makes people like us who we are. When we are born from our parents, we might have the same personality or anything else that relates to our parents, including the color of the eyes we have. During the field trip we had at the UCSD on March 7th, we had the chance to use electrophoresis to inject mice DNA into Jell wells. It was fun, and I never got to do an experiment like that before. I liked getting to see what a scientist’s day to day looks like. Even though I like doing that experiment, I wouldn’t really want to do it in my work future. This was my group doing one of the experiments.
Something that we learned in Biology is Basic Needs for humans to survive and be happy. Some of the needs we learned about are:
Throughout the past years and right now, there has been some skills that I’ve improved on, whether it’s a skill that is school-subject related or a skill that I could work in groups or more. And these kind of skills are Hard Skills & Soft Skills. Hard Skills are school-subject related, and could be worked on my own. Soft Skills are skills that I could work in groups, even if they’re school-subject related. Here are some of the Skills I’ve been working and improving on throughout my High Tech School Years.
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Ever since I was little, I really loved movies. Even though Video Games satisfy me, Movies gave me a lot of satisfaction, some of them embracing powerful and emotional messages, as well as some movies that give me laughs. Some of the movie genres I like are Action, Superhero, Sci-Fi, Drama, and my favorite; Animated. Speaking of animated, my first movie that I watched was Monsters Inc, and that never stopped me from loving those kind of movies. Even though these movies were still loved by me, there is another genre that I haven’t heard of, that I like as of right now, I’ve seen it right from middle school, and that was called Documentaries. These kind of films take place in reality, and show real people talking about what happened in their past. The first Documentary that I watched was called Mighty Times: The Children’s March, which gave a lot of heart and emotion to me, and told me a whole lot about the Birmingham campaign. This made me have my biggest dream, which was to act in or direct a movie. To do this, I started a movie project in 9th Grade called; Survive To Thrive, a 10 episode dystopian-apocalyptic movie which we filmed on the school campus, and at Palomar Mountain. I was the star of the 9th episode, which I played the role as Cato. The things we needed for the project were storytelling, a script, a camera to record, etc. We premiered the film on April 29th, 2017 at the Ken Cinema, and everyone who came here loved it. 2 years later, as of right now, we are starting Internship which will begin May 6th of this year, and we had to pick which organization to work at. What I picked was Media Arts Center San Diego, and organization where they make short documentaries and premiere it in their cinema. I wanted to make a movie with them, so I had to interview someone who worked there. A few days later, I got the internship. I’m planning to try my best to stick with Media Arts, and maybe in the future, I could work with them fully. Right now, I feel excited about what will happen during the internship.
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