Blog 8: Summer Plans

Hi everyone, today i'm going to talk you about my summer plans.

First i would like to go out to a place with rivers and forests. Maybe a week of camping in someplace. The other thing i would like to do is going to the south of the country doing backpacking, or maybe this time to the north because i don't know almost nothing of the north of Chile. So, maybe camping or doing backpacking with friends would be great. If this can be done, i think i'll search a good job to save some money to March or April of the next year. So i'll start the year with money and i'll have to manage with that hehe. There are the two options of my summer, but i think that the real option is saving money to buy some equipments to take pictures or film videoclips, i hope. In a parallel way i'll restart my analog photography work. I hope that money reach the price of a new analog camera, maybe yes, maybe not.  

Maybe i'll travel a week in a rural place with other friends and then i'll comeback to the city and start working in something to save money, that sounds like a good idea haha. I want so much jump into the river and cook in the fire until it gets dark and then drink something. I think that i would visit the same place last year. Because now i know where is the best place to camp hehe. Someplace in the hills of the Cajon del Maipo.

Have a good summer fellas

Blog 9: Changes to my study program

Hi to everyone, today i'm going to talk you about things that i would like to change in this insitute.

First, i think that the time that i spend studying the periodism courses are so invasive to develop our careers (as a filmmakers). You can see a lot of problems of communications with the academic direction of our career (called '3rd floor' maybe for all the students of the institute) For example, you can't go to a shooting because you need to attend all the classes with periodism. And this contradiction also happens with our film courses. I think it's kind stupid, they won't give us permission to develop our skills in the real world, or at least in the inner practices that are availables every year. So I would change this stupid system that doesn't gives enough attention to the film career problems. Other problems happens with a lot of courses in film. We have maybe the same courses every year, with a little bit more of difficulties, that's fine. But at the end if you analyze all the course, you can see that is always the same contents. Also, and very important, there's some courses that are very out-of-time according with the others. So, for example, in 4th year you are recently having production classes. So, in the first years you have to learn by making mistakes until you get to the 4th year, maybe that methodology is helpful, i don't know. But I know that is better having those importants courses before every big mistake. 

Regarding to the buildings and infrastructure. The shades of the threes of our 'pastos' are gone and you can only see so much concrete and cement. Before the constructions we were free to sit down of the threes and relax between our classes, or in the breaks. One point less to the study program and all his importance to the students. In technology issues, i think we are fine in the institute. Film is maybe out-of-time again but i think you can make something with those resources.

Maybe the workload is very length because of the periodism courses. And the repetitive courses and contents, we have more theory than practice in our career. And the students are paying a lot of money for this.

I would write more about it but i think is a waste of time.

Have a sunny week!

Blog 10: Language Challenges

Hi everyone, hope you're doing well

So, having English incorporated in a Spanish world makes me feels like i'm a expanding my horizon a little bit. And that is awesome because, firstly, it is necessary to my career. To know how to manage a camera. Maybe all the camera's that i have been use are in English. To know how to read the documents that maybe in the future i'm going to read, about productions, offers of cinematography. Anything that has to be with cinema, out of the country. Even to postulate in a film festival. So it is very helpful. And obviously it is a tool to know new people, or new countries. Make human relations with people from another horizons. For me that is very cool and i think that i still need more practice in the oral side as much in the writing side. But i feel like i have the language a little bit in control.

Also for me is not boring to talk or write in English. Is something that i enjoy because i feel like always when i talk or write in English i'm practicing more and more. And i though that in his essence it is practice and nothing more. Then you can reflex about this language reading poetry, literature or something like that. So you can play with his features.

I would like to use more my English out of the class, or the University. It would be more interesting to apply my knowledge about with other people out of a classroom. Like, with meeting foreign people and share with them. That would be great because i will have the examples of the pronunciation right there and my ears could be more accurate to know what are they saying to me.

Have a great week!

Blog 7: Music

Hi everyone, today i'm going to talk about my music.

So i'll start saying that jazz genre is my favorite. Why?, well because i have been listening old school rap all my life since i was a kid and that genre always use samples of another genres like jazz, soul, funk, blues...Since i start listening rap, my taste of jazz music has grow and expand up to Miles Davis (and obviosly into anothers figures), how is my favorite jazz trumpeter and composer because his career has many variety of styles. He always progress into a new way of jazz listening, like ways to get close to his unique style, until his last album called "Doo-bop" you only see evolution in his work.

Specially i like "Doo-Bop" because this album has so much of hip-hop, or rap music essence. Is a combination of jazz and rap, using samples and trumpets close to rap-drums like and a unique way to improve in each song. Well, i also like his music because my uncle listen this when i was a kid so i have flourish the taste of jazz a long time ago.

You have to know that the life of Miles Davis is a messy one, with drugs, girls, jazz and guns and he has a peculiar legend about his last album "Doo-bop", you maybe can find it in Internet.

As well as i like his life, i also like his previous albums with all the essence of a "blue-jazz". I suggest you to listen a little bit of his work, i guarantee that you're not going to spend your time.