MASTER PLAN

    Edgar Esteves's skills are amazing he's able to motivate an entire set for a music video or any event he is filming for. He always finds ways to set the mood for whatever the video is about. Half the time people on stage don't have motivation either because it's early morning or they just been filming all day so they are tired but Edgar Esteves is different, How? Well, he always finds a way to motivate people on set he always has a positive attitude which is what he claims has gotten him to the point where he is right now. He takes every opportunity in life he can since like he says staying in your comfort zone limits you to a lot of opportunities in life that's why he doesn't say he just films music videos he specifically says he can do "everything" since he's always is trying new things and never limits himself.

    Patience is key in the filmmaking world nothing will come overnight you will have to go through ups and downs before you make it. It took Edgar Esteves about 3 to 4 years to finally record for a big artist but when he finally did he did an amazing job. Edgar has years of experience in the industry and is constantly filming for Big artists. He recently filmed music videos for Drake, Russ, Anuel, Ozuna, and CJ. He's also the founder of a production company called BlankSquareProductions.

    Edgar would constantly watch youtube videos on how to do things if he wanted to learn something he would go out looking for ways to learn the new skill. His best friends were helping him create videos back then but the only thing is that they were unexperienced so he would have to teach them everything he knew in order to get them on the same page. He would gladly show them how to work the equipment even if it meant having accidents. He never gave up on them since he knew everything took time of course they weren't going to learn everything overnight but with patience he knew amazing things would be created.

    I can imitate Edgar's path to success pretty well actually since I'm always trying to be a positive person and the one that motivates other people. I'm also constantly out always recording or chasing sunsets with my best friends its always a good time since they usually are interested in what I am doing on the camera or how the video came out. They also help me set up equipment when we are out recording for other people it's like if I had my own mini production crew. I taught them how to get the drone set up and how to put some of the gimbal parts together with other equipment. I've also recently started teaching them about camera setting I'm just waiting to get a real camera of my own so we can unleash our creativity to the max capacity.

    I expect my work to look better than what it looked like when I first started. why? well because if you look back at your old work and you are able to actually say "wow what was I doing back then" you know you've improved. As long as I keep creating things I will get better so I'm hoping that by the end of the year my work will look much more professional. To the point where I might startt landing jobs with paying clients.  

MASTERPIECE STEP ONE

I am hoping to learn how to make my videos look cinematic and professionally made by the end of this semester. I know I will accomplish this goal because I am constantly filming trying to create something with the camera of my phone. I trust my role mentors since they have quality work and clients that can vouch for them especially the ones that have thousands of followers. Those that have thousands of followers are noticed because the work they create is either unique or just high quality which is the kind of work I want to make. I know my work is improving as I keep challenging myself with every new project for example about 7 weeks ago I recorded the first car video I thought it was amazing when I was done I  was really proud of myself at that time but looking at it now I can tell something's that I wasn't able to tell back then like the camera movement, angle, and music. So I can proudly say my work is improving as time goes on.

MY ROLL MENTOR

 I really enjoy Edgar Esteves's work. Edgar Esteves is  Director mostly for music videos but he also does a little of everything in the film world. I admire how he's always encouraging other people he has a positive mindset which is what helps him to keep going every day. Positivity and encouragement is something I have adopted from Edgar Esteves, I see him always being the uplifter on set he's the one that is always helping set the mood which is something very important in a music video since you can't have a group of sad people in a positive music video. He also always says that having a positive mindset is the way to keep going forward in life which I have started realizing is true.

I HAVE A DREAM

Last week I spent easily 20+ hours on my key interest. My life pretty much revolves around my key interest I'm constantly watching youtube videos that are related to videography and just things that have to do with cameras or recording. I also was out recording a video last week which can be found on my Instagram. So I'm usually always doing something that involves my key interest which is something I'm grateful for. This week my goal is to at least get one video done which I will be watching gimbal movements and so on so when I do record this week I will be prepared.

LEARNING LOOKS DIFFERENT

When I first heard about this program I didn't think it was going to be any different from any other school program I mean after all it is a school program. The first day of class in OSLA felt really good it actually felt different at first I didn't really know exactly it was different but It just felt different. But as time went on I really started noticing what exactly was the difference. What's the difference? well, there's a lot but the main difference is the way the teacher and the learner communicate. You probably didn't notice I said learner instead of student and well that's one of the differences, The teacher doesn't treat us as students. why? well because students are people that sit, stay quiet, and listen to whatever the teacher is saying. A  learner is someone that talks and communicates with the teacher about the topic. A learner doesn't sit there and watch, a learner will take part in the activity or topic and learn more about what is going on. I have learned a lot this semester but one of the most important things I learned was how to communicate. In school you don't really learn how to communicate correctly, In class, you're not really able to talk to your teacher one on one but in OSLA I was able to have those one on one conversations. I've also been learning more about videography which is something I was not able to learn at all in normal courses especially since the school itself doesn't have any classes for videography so overall I've learned a lot in OSLA  and I am excited about the future.

REAL ESTATE

I've recently been watching videos of investing and Real estate. I think Real estate is a really good way to make income since you can basically live for free and make money. what do I mean by that? well you can do something called "The House Hack" which is when you buy an apartment complex or something similar and you move into one of the apartments while you rent out the others, By doing this you can live for free while making some sort of income from the people paying you rent. It's a really smart thing to do since you can, later on, buy another property and so on until you live in your own huge mansion (if that's what you wish).

OPEN SOURCE THINKING

I  am really excited to start using this new software that Dr. Preston and Martin have created. I've never met anyone that has been able to create their own software so this is a very interesting experience. The fact that we own everything that gets posted is incredible since for any other software if the company wanted to they could shut down everything and there goes all my work. I really like how we can see how many people are on the website at the moment for example when we were in class learning about the website for the first time I was surprised to see the same amount of people in my class were on the website and as we went on everyone learned how the name themselves so we wouldn't just be named "unknown" on the site. I also really like how we were able to write and edit in real-time. which means we can work on group projects on a website and also help each other work look better if we think there is something we could fix. There is also a recording saved of what was typed and what was deleted which is really good if you ever accidentally delete something and you forget what it was or just to see what was done on the site.

MY DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

I had US History last year so I have an idea of what's the Declaration Of Independence. From my understanding, the Declaration Of Independence is when the US announced the separation of the North American British colonies from Great Britain.

I'M GETTING GOOD AT THIS

 I was looking through my emails when I read an email from Dr.Preston.  It was another question only I could answer. I started to read the question but this question was different it had some words I didn't know so I had to go on google and look up the meanings behind the words I didn't understand, For example, Sophistry I never heard this word so I had to look up the meaning. Sophistry is the use of false arguments with the intention of deceiving. After I learned the meaning of the word I decided to keep reading but as I read it didn't make much sense since I didn't know what movie Dr. Preston was talking about so I had to read the question over and over until I understood the question better. From what I understood Dr. Preston was talking about the way movies are now. what do I mean by that? Well, I think he's trying to say the movies now in days are just action-packed movies there is not much storytelling like back then when movies would have a huge and amazing story and how the story developed as the movie went on. I do agree some movies are just all about action yes they tell a story but sometimes it doesn't make sense or it just feels like the characters and story are all over the place. I also noticed Dr. Preston used some words the relate to my previous courses, for example, He included the word Covalent bond which is related to chemistry, and last semester I had a chemistry class so I see how he made a connection there. 

NOTES ON DIGITAL DATA

 A number and letter are discrete 

Digital is a simple click, ill end up somewhere else with that one click

Life's cycles are continuous functions 

An Analog signal is any continuous signal it has a beginning middle and end 

Digital Data is like a YouTube video it has a continuous data 

Digital data is numbers 

Binary means all the code that comes from this median is all code made up of 0 and 1