Learning English at university has been a very good experience. I enjoyed pretty much to write posts in a personal blog that I could customize as I wish. It was grateful to do fun activities, as talking about yourself and share different experiences about some subjects. That kind of things created the environment to discover our lacks and fix them.
About the use of blogs, I enjoyed so much to write about the proposed subjects that my blogs usually ended being double the minimum amount of words, hee hee. I liked so much the blog thing that I spended a whole day to customize it with a background, icons, text fonts, text colors, and I even tried to put music to it! (altough it didn't work at all 😢).
I guess there's a lot of things I need to improve in English, like learning more words, concepts and getting familiar with the languaje. Where I have to improve the most is in the pronunciation. And it makes sense, I don't speak english as much as I write it, or read it. It's a subject I hadn't had the circumstances to put it on practice, but well, I'm going to get better in the same measure I speak english in the future.
Outside the english class, I use English almost every day. I feel so used to it that I watch English videos, English series and read English texts as much as I do with Spanish things. That way I keep practicing my English. But well, it keeps being necessary to improve my pronunciation. So, I guess it wouldn't be bad to download a smartphone App for speaking with English people and, in addition, make new friends! haha.
Summer Holidays ☀
Hey guys!! what are you gonna do for this summer holidays?
I don't have fun by just traveling. I have fun by meeting new people, creating bonds and learning new things. These are things I can experience by traveling, but they're also things I can do without moving from the city. I don't really need to shelter from the routine in somewhere else than the city, because I find that escapes in my everyday nature. Until a year ago, one of that escapes was Scout.
I'll assume that people who read this post have, at least, a basic idea of what the Scout movement is haha 😆 I went every saturday and know new people, new useful things. But the most exciting thing about scout is to go camping! Summer camps are the best.
I'm not a beneficiary member (BM) anymore. When you grow up, you can choose if you keep being a scout by being a scout leader or leave the movement having a scout citizenship. Just because of my personal projects, y chose to be a scout citizen. However, many of my close friends and people i know keep being scout leaders.
This year they need some extra help to take care of the BM's in the summer camp, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to go there.
It will be one entire week in the south of Chile, far far away from civilization. I enjoy woods, grass and rivers much more than beaches, sand and the sea. It's more relaxing and far from the mass of traveler people, far from TV and that kind of things. There's space for thinking about other things, aside with people who is significant to me. My best friends are going to be there leading BM's with me. We're going to do some fun games and activities to make BM's have fun, think about certain important things and to have better connection with their feelings.
I feel it's an experience that's worth experiencing, I'll learn a lot about me by teaching other people, but I'm also going to learn a lot about the children 😊
I don't have fun by just traveling. I have fun by meeting new people, creating bonds and learning new things. These are things I can experience by traveling, but they're also things I can do without moving from the city. I don't really need to shelter from the routine in somewhere else than the city, because I find that escapes in my everyday nature. Until a year ago, one of that escapes was Scout.
I'll assume that people who read this post have, at least, a basic idea of what the Scout movement is haha 😆 I went every saturday and know new people, new useful things. But the most exciting thing about scout is to go camping! Summer camps are the best.
I'm not a beneficiary member (BM) anymore. When you grow up, you can choose if you keep being a scout by being a scout leader or leave the movement having a scout citizenship. Just because of my personal projects, y chose to be a scout citizen. However, many of my close friends and people i know keep being scout leaders.
This year they need some extra help to take care of the BM's in the summer camp, and I'm pretty sure I'm going to go there.
It will be one entire week in the south of Chile, far far away from civilization. I enjoy woods, grass and rivers much more than beaches, sand and the sea. It's more relaxing and far from the mass of traveler people, far from TV and that kind of things. There's space for thinking about other things, aside with people who is significant to me. My best friends are going to be there leading BM's with me. We're going to do some fun games and activities to make BM's have fun, think about certain important things and to have better connection with their feelings.
I feel it's an experience that's worth experiencing, I'll learn a lot about me by teaching other people, but I'm also going to learn a lot about the children 😊
Free Topic Week 😃
This time I'm going to talk about a videogame I'm really into: Osu!mania.
I've always enjoyed videogames, like most of the people, although I've never had good reflex for platform and fighting games like Mario Bros or Street Fighter haha. The reflex thing led me to play more Role Play Games (RPG's) in my adolesence. For example, Pokémon was a RPG where battle dynamics depended more on the combatant pokémon's level, his individual battle statistics and the effectivity of every move I choose. So until that moment I never needed to improve in my reaction speed and stuff.
I also played Massive Multiplayer Online Role Play Games (MMORPG's) with my friends like World Of Warcraft and King Of Kings. But I got bored because all these videogames were very complex to become familiar with and also the status you have above other players is usually settled by the level and money you have in the game. Basically you need to play more time and invest real money to be considered a good player on this games. I was disappointed when I found out that true. It was in that moment when I discovered Osu!mania.
Osu! is a free and open-source rhythm game. That means the game creators just designed the software, game dynamics, forums and stuff, but the players are the ones who design the BeatMaps (BM's) for the game. BM's are the combination of songs and a button layout where you have to hit the buttons at the song's pace. You can freely download songs from the official Osu! website. You can search for the song you want and, if it isn't there, you can always make your own BM's. Songs typically feature various BM's with different difficulties (measured by the amount of stars).
There are some different modes of Osu!: Osu!, Osu!taiko, Osu!catch and Osu!mania. The last one is my personal favourite. If you've played Guitar Hero, you're probably familiar with Osu!mania's game dynamics. It's a game where musical notes come falling in their respective buttons, and you have to hit them at the right moment, following the song's pace.
I like this game a lot because I feel like it's a real challenge. the game measures the accuracy you have hitting every note, and the notes you've hit in chain. Your performance is translated into performance points (pp's). People with most pp's are considered the best Osu!mania players. you can harvest a limited amount of pp's from every BM, so you'll be always pushed to move on and play new BM's. The harder the BM, the more pp's you can harvest from it. This is a reward system that encourages you to improve. And even when you're stuck in between certain difficulty levels, the game offers you other ways to get better.
There are "difficulty mods" that adds more difficulty to BM's and, in exchange, you can harvest some extra pp's. This mods consist in turn BM's twice as quick, or hiding notes, or making you lose immediately if you miss one note. You can even turn on many mods at the same time and harvest more and more pp's! 😝 at least, that's the way I improve and, while I'm on it, I gather some pp's 😍
I love Osu!mania because It's a game that's easy to understand and hard to master. It's truly gratifying to see your own performance layout on your website profile (I'm leaving my profile at the end of the post if you want to see it heehee). It's really exciting to play this kind of game where the world rankings are always changing and you need to be a little creative to improve. A game where the player's status doesn't come from the amount of time he played, or the money he invested, but from his real player skill.
Let me know if you start playing Osu!mania 😀 bye bye!
https://osu.ppy.sh/users/8328456
I've always enjoyed videogames, like most of the people, although I've never had good reflex for platform and fighting games like Mario Bros or Street Fighter haha. The reflex thing led me to play more Role Play Games (RPG's) in my adolesence. For example, Pokémon was a RPG where battle dynamics depended more on the combatant pokémon's level, his individual battle statistics and the effectivity of every move I choose. So until that moment I never needed to improve in my reaction speed and stuff.
I also played Massive Multiplayer Online Role Play Games (MMORPG's) with my friends like World Of Warcraft and King Of Kings. But I got bored because all these videogames were very complex to become familiar with and also the status you have above other players is usually settled by the level and money you have in the game. Basically you need to play more time and invest real money to be considered a good player on this games. I was disappointed when I found out that true. It was in that moment when I discovered Osu!mania.
Osu! is a free and open-source rhythm game. That means the game creators just designed the software, game dynamics, forums and stuff, but the players are the ones who design the BeatMaps (BM's) for the game. BM's are the combination of songs and a button layout where you have to hit the buttons at the song's pace. You can freely download songs from the official Osu! website. You can search for the song you want and, if it isn't there, you can always make your own BM's. Songs typically feature various BM's with different difficulties (measured by the amount of stars).
There are some different modes of Osu!: Osu!, Osu!taiko, Osu!catch and Osu!mania. The last one is my personal favourite. If you've played Guitar Hero, you're probably familiar with Osu!mania's game dynamics. It's a game where musical notes come falling in their respective buttons, and you have to hit them at the right moment, following the song's pace.
I like this game a lot because I feel like it's a real challenge. the game measures the accuracy you have hitting every note, and the notes you've hit in chain. Your performance is translated into performance points (pp's). People with most pp's are considered the best Osu!mania players. you can harvest a limited amount of pp's from every BM, so you'll be always pushed to move on and play new BM's. The harder the BM, the more pp's you can harvest from it. This is a reward system that encourages you to improve. And even when you're stuck in between certain difficulty levels, the game offers you other ways to get better.
There are "difficulty mods" that adds more difficulty to BM's and, in exchange, you can harvest some extra pp's. This mods consist in turn BM's twice as quick, or hiding notes, or making you lose immediately if you miss one note. You can even turn on many mods at the same time and harvest more and more pp's! 😝 at least, that's the way I improve and, while I'm on it, I gather some pp's 😍
I love Osu!mania because It's a game that's easy to understand and hard to master. It's truly gratifying to see your own performance layout on your website profile (I'm leaving my profile at the end of the post if you want to see it heehee). It's really exciting to play this kind of game where the world rankings are always changing and you need to be a little creative to improve. A game where the player's status doesn't come from the amount of time he played, or the money he invested, but from his real player skill.
Let me know if you start playing Osu!mania 😀 bye bye!
https://osu.ppy.sh/users/8328456
Post Graduate Studies I Consider Taking In The Future
Previously, on my other blog entries, I've already talked about my deep interest in scriptwriting and everything related to that subject. Honestly, I haven't thought about my post graduate studies, mainly because I'm wide open to opportunities the future has for giving me. Although I keep enjoying scriptwriting above all, I'm still discovering more roles in filmmaking. I'm always enthusiastic about finding new ways of storytelling.
However, my priorities about learning still revolve around scriptwriting. So, for now, my post graduate studies seem to point to that role.
Regarding to the reasons to do the course, I already feel very familiar to the basic concepts. I'm always reading, watching videos or looking for more information about scriptwriting. In all these years learning, the most rewarding experiences have been workshop thaught by people who lives of scriptwriting and storytelling. It's true that most of the info is right before our eyes, but it's also true that we ignore what we ignore. What I mean is that it's difficult to know what we're doing wrong if there isn't someone who knows enough to teach exactly what we're doing wrong and why.
No matter how proactive you are, you'll always improve faster and better if you're aside with a teacher. I know I would make the most of a scriptwriting post graduate.
I would like to develop all the knowledge I already have about the subject (character design, setting, theme developing, art) by writing stories and receiving feedback from my mentors. I still don't choose an specific genre, I would like to try most of them! I would gain a lot of experience. Also, that way I'll definitely discover my own style.
Although I'd prefer to take my post graduate studies here in Chile, just because of the convenience, I'm gonna pursue every chance I have to achieve my goals of improving as storyteller, even if they're outside the country. So, it just depends on the opportunities that shows up for me.
About the way I would like to take the course, I'd prefer it to be face-to-face. It's truly necessary for me and my sense of discipline to go to a place with a teacher totally separated from my home. That way it's like I'm turning on a switch or something, haha! I need an atmosphere different from my home, so I don't procrastinate as I do in there :(
That's all for today, smell-ya later guys! <3
However, my priorities about learning still revolve around scriptwriting. So, for now, my post graduate studies seem to point to that role.
Regarding to the reasons to do the course, I already feel very familiar to the basic concepts. I'm always reading, watching videos or looking for more information about scriptwriting. In all these years learning, the most rewarding experiences have been workshop thaught by people who lives of scriptwriting and storytelling. It's true that most of the info is right before our eyes, but it's also true that we ignore what we ignore. What I mean is that it's difficult to know what we're doing wrong if there isn't someone who knows enough to teach exactly what we're doing wrong and why.
No matter how proactive you are, you'll always improve faster and better if you're aside with a teacher. I know I would make the most of a scriptwriting post graduate.
I would like to develop all the knowledge I already have about the subject (character design, setting, theme developing, art) by writing stories and receiving feedback from my mentors. I still don't choose an specific genre, I would like to try most of them! I would gain a lot of experience. Also, that way I'll definitely discover my own style.
Although I'd prefer to take my post graduate studies here in Chile, just because of the convenience, I'm gonna pursue every chance I have to achieve my goals of improving as storyteller, even if they're outside the country. So, it just depends on the opportunities that shows up for me.
About the way I would like to take the course, I'd prefer it to be face-to-face. It's truly necessary for me and my sense of discipline to go to a place with a teacher totally separated from my home. That way it's like I'm turning on a switch or something, haha! I need an atmosphere different from my home, so I don't procrastinate as I do in there :(
That's all for today, smell-ya later guys! <3
My Future Job :-)
When people asks me what I'd like to do for a living, I'm not very sure of what to answer. I don't have a clearly defined plan. I'm very conformist so I can be happy with things the future brings to me. Taking into consideration what I said, I'm going to explain my criterion to be happy at a job.
What I like to do the most are creative activities. That includes drawing, watching movies, TV shows and youtube videos; writing things, reading books and comics, always trying new things and that kind of stuff.
That's why I dream of a job that allows me to keep doing creative activities in my everyday life. On a job that leaves me a lot of free time to spend I would be as happy as on a full-time job that requires (and allows me) to learn a lot.
I'd prefer my job to be outodoors, because generally outdoor jobs requires more physicall energy than indoor jobs, where is more important to have a perfectly organizated schedule. Is very important to be organized in life, but I'm not very good at it. I'm better at getting used to routine activities. I also think that learning general thinks is more practical in real life than things you learn by getting more specialized in what you do. In this age, where everyone tend to specialize in what they do, I think it's important (and very useful) to be a person who haves more interpersonal abilities.
I would be happy on a job where I travel frequently. That way I could learn a lot, know many people and have beautiful experiences. Although I think it's enjoyable to travel, I don't think it's indispensable to learn important things. I think, wherever we are,essential knowledge is right within reach to learn.
Everything I already said was said leaving out the salary factor. I obviously can't have the benefit of choosing the most comfortable job if salary is not enough to live haha, but I'm good with a salary that's enough to pay my bills and have a little savings.
I think the best major for me (and the only one I feel attracted to) is the script writing in filmmaking and things like that (cartoons, comics). To write a script, you need to know everything about characters you're writing of. That includes their personalities, their careers and jobs, their personal issues, etc...
To do that, you need to know many people and learn many things. That way, ideas come even spontaneously! It's like I'm working as I live mylife, haha. Bye-bye!
What I like to do the most are creative activities. That includes drawing, watching movies, TV shows and youtube videos; writing things, reading books and comics, always trying new things and that kind of stuff.
That's why I dream of a job that allows me to keep doing creative activities in my everyday life. On a job that leaves me a lot of free time to spend I would be as happy as on a full-time job that requires (and allows me) to learn a lot.
I'd prefer my job to be outodoors, because generally outdoor jobs requires more physicall energy than indoor jobs, where is more important to have a perfectly organizated schedule. Is very important to be organized in life, but I'm not very good at it. I'm better at getting used to routine activities. I also think that learning general thinks is more practical in real life than things you learn by getting more specialized in what you do. In this age, where everyone tend to specialize in what they do, I think it's important (and very useful) to be a person who haves more interpersonal abilities.
I would be happy on a job where I travel frequently. That way I could learn a lot, know many people and have beautiful experiences. Although I think it's enjoyable to travel, I don't think it's indispensable to learn important things. I think, wherever we are,essential knowledge is right within reach to learn.
Everything I already said was said leaving out the salary factor. I obviously can't have the benefit of choosing the most comfortable job if salary is not enough to live haha, but I'm good with a salary that's enough to pay my bills and have a little savings.
I think the best major for me (and the only one I feel attracted to) is the script writing in filmmaking and things like that (cartoons, comics). To write a script, you need to know everything about characters you're writing of. That includes their personalities, their careers and jobs, their personal issues, etc...
To do that, you need to know many people and learn many things. That way, ideas come even spontaneously! It's like I'm working as I live mylife, haha. Bye-bye!
The story of why did I chose to study filmmaking :-)
The reason I became a filmmaking student is kind of a long story.
I've always enjoyed to draw, since I was a kid. My sister always supported my artist facet by giving me colour pencils and stuff. Besides, since I was very young, I started to like cartoons, so I used to draw my favourite TV series. I was so in love with anime and cartoons that I dreamt of drawing my own stories.
Then I discovered the comic format (well, my sister showed it to me hehe), which I could use to draw and write my own stories!
I've drawn comics since I was six years old until now. When I was in fourth year of high school, I was pretty conscious that drawing comics was the only thing I could enjoy for life, even taking into account that I was skilled in another subjetcs.
It's a relief that my family didn't push me to get into a career right away after graduating from highschool. If that were the case, I would probably be studying graphic design. I'm totally sure that in that career I wouldn't be as happy as I am studying filmmaking.
The year after I graduated from highschool, I went to a pre-university while I thought what I really wanted to study. For a while, I felt like the career I needed to fulfill my dreams didn't exist. Then I started to go to a comic script workshop. Along my youth, I was never satisfied by going to drawing workshops for my comics, because I wanted to get better at writing stories, not at drawing. That's why I felt so excited when I discovered the scriptwriter job.
For the first time I realized what job could fulfill my desire of drawing good stories. I didn't hesitate at asking my workshop teacher for help at choosing a career. Although he didn't really help me choosing, he turned into a model for me. I did what I could to follow his steps.
I looked for a scriptwriting career. Althoguh there are many universities with that career, I prefered to study filmmaking in Universidad de Chile, just because of his high status between universities. That way, I could specialize later in scriptwriting.
Although scriptwriting keeps being my favourite thing to do in my career, I've discovered that every role in filmmaking is dependent on cinematographic storytelling. So I learned to enjoy every field of my career and nowadays I'm open to almost any filmmaking project. By the way, I also keep drawing and working on my comic projects hehe, bye-bye!
I've always enjoyed to draw, since I was a kid. My sister always supported my artist facet by giving me colour pencils and stuff. Besides, since I was very young, I started to like cartoons, so I used to draw my favourite TV series. I was so in love with anime and cartoons that I dreamt of drawing my own stories.
Then I discovered the comic format (well, my sister showed it to me hehe), which I could use to draw and write my own stories!
I've drawn comics since I was six years old until now. When I was in fourth year of high school, I was pretty conscious that drawing comics was the only thing I could enjoy for life, even taking into account that I was skilled in another subjetcs.
It's a relief that my family didn't push me to get into a career right away after graduating from highschool. If that were the case, I would probably be studying graphic design. I'm totally sure that in that career I wouldn't be as happy as I am studying filmmaking.
The year after I graduated from highschool, I went to a pre-university while I thought what I really wanted to study. For a while, I felt like the career I needed to fulfill my dreams didn't exist. Then I started to go to a comic script workshop. Along my youth, I was never satisfied by going to drawing workshops for my comics, because I wanted to get better at writing stories, not at drawing. That's why I felt so excited when I discovered the scriptwriter job.
For the first time I realized what job could fulfill my desire of drawing good stories. I didn't hesitate at asking my workshop teacher for help at choosing a career. Although he didn't really help me choosing, he turned into a model for me. I did what I could to follow his steps.
I looked for a scriptwriting career. Althoguh there are many universities with that career, I prefered to study filmmaking in Universidad de Chile, just because of his high status between universities. That way, I could specialize later in scriptwriting.
Although scriptwriting keeps being my favourite thing to do in my career, I've discovered that every role in filmmaking is dependent on cinematographic storytelling. So I learned to enjoy every field of my career and nowadays I'm open to almost any filmmaking project. By the way, I also keep drawing and working on my comic projects hehe, bye-bye!
My Favourite Movie (fanservicer) Director And My Favourite Movie Adaptation
Takashi Miike is a Japanese film director known for his theatrical video and television productions. Although I'm not a staunch fan of his work, he has made some adaptations that got me undoubtedly captivated because of the fidelity to the original concepts.
One example that I'd like to briefly talk about is his movie Ace Attorney from 2012, where he doesn't simply synthesizes the Ace Attorney videogame's plot, but also adjusts the videogame dynamics into a cinematographic spectacle.
That was my first approaching to Miike, and although his movies are not good on their own. They are pretty enjoyable when you already know the franchise he is adapting. His work is kind of fanservice.
I was pretty aware about the adaptation difficulties this manga has, so I think you will understand how incredibly excited I felt when I knew a live action adaptation was going to be released by Miike. I already knew he is not good at synthesizing plots, but adapting dynamics. In JoJo the atmosphere, character design, acting, visual composition and fantastics incidents are highly more important as a seal of the manga. And that's what the movie offers!
I don't think a person that's not familiar with the manga/anime of Jojo could understand the movie, and that's a real pity. But I invite you to take a look at Jojo and, rather you like it or not, I guarantee it won't be a waste of your time if you watch the entire anime to understand the movie. Bye Bye!
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