Cinematography Workshop

Working with Ariana, I learned in order to make a good film its all about camera angles. The way the camera zooms in or looks at something can really make or break a film. We looked at film and the way the director decided to shot the interview really made a difference, you could get a better understanding about him just by the way the camera shot him. With this information I learned from Ariana I plan to set up my interviews in similar fashion so I can have a powerful movie.

This was a video I made with kwan at my imovie workshop. The session went well and easy,  I thought it was going to be hard to make a video and modify it and add different features but it was easy and i enjoyed it. I cant wait to take what I learned and apply it to the film project me and my group are working on, the video should be very interesting.

poem " Me "

When you look at me  I only show you What I want you to see  You will never know the real me because if you did you'd never be able to get your mind around it  for my mind and soul is a puzzle but only I have the pieces  But if you stick around for awhile you might live to see the final picture.

Gios Bio

My name is Giovanni Vazquez. I'm 17 years old and a senior at New Design High School, Which is located by my home in the Lower East Side. All my life I have never gone to school farther then 3 blocks from my home which is always good for me. My future dreams that i have for myself is to be involved in law enforcement and go to the college of my dreams , which is John Jay for Criminal Justice. New design has helped me a lot on finding out what I want to do and basically just help me find out who I am and where I'm going to go.

Review for To Be Heard

To Be Heard, a film by Roland Legiardi, centered around multiple teens in a poetry group in the New York City in the Bronx. The film was really inspirational and it hit home for me.  It made me think that anyone can make a good poem.  Not all poems have to rhyme and all they need is a little bit of feeling to make it a powerful piece of writing.  It is a shame to see how society condemns teens to the point where the only the way they can express themselves is through their poems but in a way its good because it makes their emotions real and it makes their writing amazing. Its centered around 3 characters Anthony Pittman, as he was in the program he had sex with an under aged girl and was sentenced to 2 years in jail. When he was released he continued writing and won a poetry slam competition. Karina Sanchez, was another student involved in the program she had a rough upbringing in her home which influenced her writing and many ways and after the programs she has now begun to teach the class occasionally. Finally Pear Quick was a student in the program she had a a fear that she couldn't go to the college of her drams because of her financial situation and with this program ended up going to the college of her dreams on a full scholarship.

The ninth floor

In an apartment above Fifth Avenue, some thirty young people live in a vortex of drug addiction and despair. In The Ninth Floor, Jessica Dimmock enters this world, exploring, in human terms, what has been lost and what may be recovered. See the project at http://mediastorm.com/publication/the-ninth-floor

I watched a very compelling film called, "The Ninth Floor."  The music in the video was ominous and sad.   It made the video more dramatic and sad and it made you really get a better understanding for the situation the different people were in.   The images that were in the video were pictures of needles and the reaction after the people got their high.  It is basically putting you in their shoes on how getting there drugs made them feel.  The interviews in the film showed how the users thought their drug use for beneficial.  We learn that they do it because it gives them a feeling of no worries and there's nothing that bothers them when they get there fix.  The overall message of the video was to show that its a life of sadness and weakness but its who they are and they can't change who they are.  They know what mistakes they made and their willing to lay in the bed they made and not put the blame on anyone but themselves.

It was a very sad story of multiple people living in New York with an addiction to methadone.  The video goes through the hardships of having addiction and how it feels to have no control over it because its fuel for them to survive, they count on methadone to function in life.  Towards the end they show how a couple that suffered from methadone wanted to make a change for their baby, they knew this wasn't the life they wanted for their child they wanted to give their daughter a chance at a normal existence.

The films camera angles really made the film really strong and made it powerful.The way the people were shown in their interviews really made the film a really strong piece.  Therefore the viewer was able to really understand the film in a better way making it a great film. With my film I hope to catch the interviews from good angles so the viewer could get into the mindset of what we are trying to accomplish, and see our film in a good light.