I Am From Poem

I am from a happy, loving family.
I am from smiles and laughs,
of all of my cousins, aunts and uncles, parents and sibling.
I am from the valley
where the people are all close
I am from the school that people talk about each other.
I am from all of those rumors that were spread,
all of them affected how I felt and who I am
I am from being a true friend
and always having my friends back
I am from caring for everyone
(no matter how much they hurt me)
I am from having fun and living my life
I am from taking responsibility
in a very irresponsible place
I am from athleticism,
My sport (soccer) gets me by and makes me sane
I am from my true friends always having my back.
I am from a place that fake people exist
and I’m always hearing lies.
I am from a city that everyone always has something to say
(about someone else).
I am from a happy place though,
A place where I have no worries,
A place that I know I can be myself,
A place that I grew up in an believe I have friends
I am from my family.

Olive Panter. "Play."

Summary: When you grow up and are born with something you usually depend on it your whole life. Olive Panter, 16, tells her story of her connection with music. She finds that music is that only that that really can make her happy. She seems like a very artisitc girl and she enjoys singing.

Connection & What I Learned: This story connects to film production because the girl grew up around artistic parents and her emotional connection to music can be shown in a film. I learned that anything that you grow up with can affect who you are and what you are going to be attatched to. I can relate but in a different way. I have never really been away from my mother so I am usually dependent on her being there. The only bad thing is I cant bring her everywhere so I will mature and learn how to survive with her not being there.

John Sellers. "My Impression Now."

Summary: This story was told by John Selers and what he thinks about music and how music affects him. He doesn't like to listen to the new music. He doesn't want to listen in the new way because he doesn't think that all of the good music will be heard.

Connection & What I Learned: I learned that things in music really have changed and that they can affect how we live everyday and who we are in life. This connects to film production because you could have a movie that a character is really connected to his music and you can show how the change is affecting him. The only thing was that this story didn't really have a lot of descriptions so therefore it is hard to picture the image in your head and create it into a film.

Mixed CD Poem

Word Count: 352

I can hear them telling lies, well that's no surprise
I don’t like what they say and I can’t understand why they say it.
They say I get Krazy
I’m not who they think why can’t they understand.
I thought they were my friend’s, they told me their secrets
but I would never tell because I’m a true friend, they’re not.
You can put it on my shoulder's, I can hold you.
The thing is that everything they said about me was all a lie.
I’m the kinda girl that would never hurt my friends,
the one that they can all turn to when they need someone to talk to.
Now when I hang out with people, sometimes I worry what they think about me.
Maybe they heard those ridiculous rumors, maybe not but I’m in a daze, that bottom is wavin’ at me.
How am I supposed to feel when people I don’t even know talk about me.
I worry bout the wrong things, the wrong things.
When I hear it so much it starts to hurt, Dem haters in my way.
So I sit on my bed all by myself and shut off any form of communication, I'm good without ya.
Sometimes I’ll stare out the window and I wonder about things, I hate this part right here.
Music helps me too; it helps me to escape from reality.
Sometimes I want to start over somewhere
Cuhz the best is, no one knows who you are,
Just another girl: alone at the bar.
But that’s not me that’s who they think I am.
I don’t really wanna spend your whole life alone.
I want someone who will care and won’t leave me, someone who will keep their promises.
So I get up and realize everyday I need ya.
I have to realize that as long as I know who I am
No one else matters
I move in my own way.
I create who I am and who I want to be,
I'd like to think the best of me is still hiding up my sleeve,
Now I’m Miss independent.

Mixed CD Story

Personal Narrative: RUMORS
Word Count: 443

People say what they want to say what they want to say and hear what they want to hear. Some people would pretend to be my best friends but it was all fake because they were the ones who were starting the rumors. No worries, they are no longer my friends. I have come to learn who I should trust and what I should and shouldn’t say. High School is a complicated place; there are many relationships that are beginning and ending and different status’s students want to have. Sometimes people are so desperate to fit into a group that they will do and say whatever they have to. For my entire life I have never tried to impress anyone I have always been myself. When I find people I can relate to and hang out with it takes me a while to begin to trust them now. The rumors that people started about me gave me a reputation that I don’t want to have. Now I have to live with that reputation and it sucks because no matter how much I try to convince people that the rumors aren’t true, they don’t believe me. I would rather not tell what the rumors are exactly but the truth is that there is no way they can be true. Some of the things people say and think that I do, I have never in my life done because I have class and I respect myself. Sometimes I think that these rumors were started because of the people that I hung out with, and then I realize that’s probably true. It sucks when I hear from my friends that someone was talking about me. The worst part is that sometimes I don’t even know who the people are. The music tells my story. I started off believing that people were my true friends and they would never spread rumors about me. However I came to realize that they would and some of the songs explain who they think I am. Then comes the songs that explain how I feel, I actually listened to these songs when the rumors really get to me and make me sad. By the end of this journey I come to realize that I am Independent and I am my own person. If people don’t know me how can they have the right to talk about me? That is something I will never understand, but I have honestly given up on caring what people say anymore. As long as I know who I am and what I do that’s all that matters because I define myself and no one else can.

"Handwritten" Playlist

Luis J. Rodriguez, "The Republicof East L.A."

Summary: Cruz Blancarte grows to realize that it is better for him not to try and fit in. He realizes that way he doesn't have to worry about what everyone thinks. He shows the reader that he can see life from all aspects and therefore tries to create his own life without doing bad to others.

Connection & What I Learned: From this reading I learned that it does not matter what people think about you and believe what they want. As long as you know who you are you can do what it is you want. I learned that people think you do certain things because of what you were born like when the truth is you could just honestly like that style. This writing was very descriptive and showed a lot of imagery and could easily be made into a movie. Since in movies you have to grab the readers attention you could tell his story.