Making Frames, Drawing with lights

When I started cinema and tv,  I took a short course called "Introduction to Audiovisual" in Balmaceda Arte Joven. There, I learned how to make scripts, to use the camera, put the lights and draw a storyboard. The thing that I most like, was the camera and script. So when I get in university, i had a little advantage of knowledge about those techniques. I would like to major in photography and script.

I feel that two things are so important in an audiovisual work and they are complement each other.  A good script is unusable if it doesn´t well narrated in the screen. In this sens, I like more the image than sript. Although an incredible image (photography) is unusable if the script is a garbage. But, how I said before, my first experience with cinema was with the camera, so I like more that side of the cinema.

I would like to work filming movies and be related directly with actors or common people if the work is a documentary. I enjoy making difficult and strange frames. I would like to work as Director of Photography too,  bringing colors, tonalities and life to a scene. I like painting bodies and structures with lights. The good side of work in movies, is that you don´t need to work the month complete, and as a director of photography, you can earn a lot of money.

I would say my strengths are a really good pulse with a handheld camera, my enthusiasm and the rigour that I have doing my job. My weaknesses are sometimes I am a little obstinate about an idea and I don´t hear other suggestions. I must improve that aspect in my life, because communication in a team, usually enrich the results.

Best new year`s party ever

In new year I always eat with my family before to go to party. On December 31th of 2005 I think, after dinner and bring and get the tipycal hugs, I went with my brother to an unknown guy house to a party. That was the beggining of the long night.

In that house there were so many friends and we drank and had fun. Then, some people said that there was another party not so far from there, so we walked to the next stop. On the road, we bought more beers and we went drinking and making jokes. When we finally arrived to the place, we didn`t know specifically where the house it was ubicated. So we stayed in street a long time untill we saw a group of guys that went to another party. Those strangers invited us to a house for have fun, so we didn´t reject that glorious invitation and we decided go with them.

I remember we were in the backyard and there were hanged clothes. So one of my friends took a big brassiere and he stoled. That situation made me laugh very much.

When the night was longer, in fact it was dawn, we all were drunk in street and laughing about the barssiere my friend had stole. Then we walked to a square and we bought the last beers of journey. There we talked with old people that were in a similar situation and we shared beers a few time. I think bought that last beer it was not a good idea, because I fell sleep in a near square and I waked up all sunstroked.

Environment practices

I don´t know a lot  information about environment practices. Sometimes I have the natural practice of throw garbage in baskets or clean a space after I use it. Things that you learn in your home or in school, but sincerely I think that is not enough for really helping the environment. The problem is the few information about ecological practices, but also the few interest of the people for searching that kind of information.

 

I haven´t  incorporated recycling very much into my habits. Actually, I often buy and use disposable products. Things that I have done is recycle clothes,  making or fixing other clothes. Also I sell it or I give it but I never throw it out. About recycling garbage, I would like to have different bins for different kind of trash; plastic, paper and glass. I would like to make a vegetable garden, but living in a building is more difficult.

 

I usually use my freestyle bike to travel, but when the distances are too long, that kind of bike is not too usefull. In that case I have no choice but to use the public transport, one of the things that I hate the most. Besides, Santiago is lack of cycle paths to promove its use. With that thing I could reduce my carbon footprint and to do more sport.

 

I haven´t joined an eco-organisation maybe for the few freetime I have last time or because I am bussy with another things. It sounds like an excuse but it is true. A thing I would like to do again, is quite eating meat. I was about 3 years beeing a vegetarian and I return to be carnivorous like 1 year ago. I would like to leave the animals in peace.

CONTRA

When I was 8 or 9 maybe, my parents bought me and my brother, a game console called Creation. In that game console you could play nintendo and super nintendo video games, and games that the Creation had integrated. So my brother and I played lots of hours a video game called Contra, that was one of the integrated games. It was very entertaining playing it, because we could play in the same time. I always was the Player 2, because I was the younger brother, and sometimes I could finish the stage with him. Most of time I died before that.




The video game is very simple. Contra is about one or two soldiers that run killing enemies. On the road you can change your kind of ammo and be more lethal. In the end of each stage, there was a big enemy that you must defeat.

Playing Contra in pair, it was more entertaining and easy, but we never could complete all the stages. We always were in the same point, and we couldn't finish the stage.

Pakistani journalist shot dead

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2012/oct/03/journalist-safety-pakistan

In Pakistan, on September 29th of  2012, Abdul Haq Baloch, was shot dead in the city of Khuzdar, Baluchistan province. This murder hapenned when he was leaving the Khuzdar press club and nobody has claimed responsability for the murder. Bob Dietz, Asian coordinator for the Committee to Protect Journalists, said that they condemn the murder of Abdul and that the authorities must research the situation. Besides, another two journalist were killed in Baluchistan before Abdul. 

Anyway, isn't a surprise those kind of facts. In all the world, people that want to say or show something dangerous, they are risking their lifes. And example about weight of information and the fight of interests that carry on.

Beyond the authorities statements, I think journalists aren`t the only guilties. They don`t go for fun or for their whishes. It exist people that think over they.

 I think  journalist's bosses never think beyond  feelings that cause the sensantionalism about a picture or  a controversial new. They don´t think about the insecurity that surround journalists when they go to report a "new" on risky situations. Those people only think in profits that a new  would to generate. They only matter the controversial reactions. So, all turns around money and impact that a information would to cause.

Abdul is another example about the unbreakable subordination and the little common sense which some people act.

Banksy

Well, I don´t know much about a painter as an art expert, and talk about Dalí, Picasso or any famous painter, it would be a cliché. So, I going to write about a important figure in street art: Banksy.

This guy is famous in stencil style, that is about paint in streets or walls using a template or "stencil". About this guy, nobody knows anything about where he studied, where he lives or his true name. Some people says that his real name is Robin Banks, but this could be a joke trying to say "robbin (or stealing) banks".

Out of this information, no really important, his work is something amazing. With his works he makes lots of critics to authorities, the society, multinational companies, militar actions, etc. He always act hidden, and sometimes he breaks private properties to make controversial pictures. I like so much a character that he sometimes paints: one or lots of rats. Rats sometimes say or do something forbidden or funny, but always with a clear intention. So, the style, contents and the way how he acts, are the things that I most like of Banksy.

There is a painting that he made, that I like for the place where he did it, and for what it represents. Is about a painting on Wall of Gaza that shows two childs painting a hole in the wall. From the other side, you can see a beautiful landscape. So, you have to make your own conclusions.

Spain and Europe

A time ago, I had the intentions to travel to Spain. I wanted to study cinema in there, but just wish isn´t enough. Money and another kind of requirement did it was not possible to travel. 

I think that in spain and europe generally, exist another kind of thought that permit to live with a little more of freedom. Freedom to say and do things related with arts, specifically with movies and all its movements history.

I would like to visit El  País Vasco or Basque Country, Cataluña and Barcelona, except Madrid because i think that in this city, there is lots of racism and neo-nazis groups. Opposite with Barcelona where the okupa and libertarian movement is very strong, although very repressed too. I would like to know this situation from inside, and make a documentary. I would work in something related with audiovisual work in the best case, or do something self-managment. But now, in this moment, economic and social situation in Europe is very critical, so it would be a mistake go now.

Another reason to travel to Spain, is the proximity with other countries in Europe. Only a train and you are in France, then Germany, Italy, Belgium, Netherland, etc. I hope one day I could travel to those countries.