This a Press Release for the PSA project. People would buy the shirts to support domestic violence and also with this they will be against it. 

This was a PSA video made by Jasmina, Jahde and I. This PSA was for women who are going through domestic violence.

Magazine ad

This was an ad that I had created group magazine "Entertainment Now". This ad for the show The Walking Dead, which we was trying to promote for the readers.

Midterm Essay

“But what is the difference between literature and journalism? .. Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all.” – Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), The Critics as Artist, 1891

                Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer and poet in where he became popular in the 1880s for his plays. Wilde became a famous for his playwrights, novels, poems and also he became a journalist. He was a biting wit, being intelligent he kept up with his work refining ideas and having artistic ideas into his novels. In 1886-89 he became a journalist as he enjoyed reviewing and writing about the views of art, literature and life. The many reviews that he wrote where positive and chatty as it suited his style. Wilde manipulated the marketplace in literature and his own terms.

                Oscar says “But what is the difference between literature and journalism?..” Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all”. Basically this quote is disagreeing in the fact that Wilde was upset how everybody would read journalism when it did not make sense that much as for literature he thought it would be easier to read since it will stay in one subject of a story. The fact that people did not read his stories upset him in where he became a journalist and wrote about literature. Journalism is professionally writing in newspapers, magazines or even broadcasting in a radio have people read/hear about what’s going on. For journalism you cannot lie, make up a story, plagiarizing or even change it up because there would be consequences. As also in journalism you have to gather news and related information to give to an audience. Otherwise literature is much different than journalism since it can be either fiction or non-fiction. This quote is agreeable and disagreeable because there’s so many differences between this two categories.

 This is a midterm essay I had written in the middle of the year. This essay was a quote analysis of journalism about Oscar Wilde and his opinion in it.

Photography Project

This project had to be one of the funnest and interesting project, I had ever done. This project was a little sentimental because how Nachtwey photographed situations that has been happening around the world lately. 

Dan Eldon Project

                Many journalists risk their lives in war zones trying to take a picture to catch the world attention to see what’s recently going on. These journalists may seem crazy but in reality they’re heroes. Well, I considered them as heroes because of the way they risk their lives trying to take a close-up action picture in a war. Sadly, Dan Eldon died at the age 22 in Mogadishu, Somalia. He was attacked by an angry mob along with three journalists only having Shaffi being the only survivor. Eldon left behind a series of journals in where they were published by the Chronicle Books. Amy Eldon sister of Dan Eldon wanted to seek out what was the cause of his death, wanting to see it for herself. She left her home Kenya and traveled interviewing various journalists asking them of their experience and how it felt like being in front line of a war.

                Throughout this documentary film as Amy interview a few experience journalists asking them for what is important and their techniques that they do when in a war zone. Des Wright and Carlos Mavrolean were one of the first journalists that Amy first interview. They have told her that safety is the first priority for a journalist. As also the next one was Martin Bell, he says to negotiate across the camera. Bell says to Amy that you cannot be a coward and to not let fear show your weakness. Bell quotes “useless as they are’ meaning that many journalists thought that there photographs were hopeless just like the people dying around them for example when a genocide was going on in Bosnia.

Many journalists were treated poorly and Bell was ashamed of that. “We can’t be heroes; because we can get out whenever” By this Bell declares that journalists and himself are not heroes because they’ll get out of it and most of them really don’t do anything as all they do is snap a picture and get out of the area safely. Christiane Amanpour is women journalist that Amy had interview. Christiane tell her “to know how to deal with energy” as you’ll need it when being a journalist and also she says “Certain people do certain things” to survive and to capture a picture in action. As Amy went to talk to Dan McCullen he pronounces that you cannot hide behind a camera even closer to people, though journalists feel safe when they’re really not since they are out in the open. McCullen tells Eldon that when picture is captured it shows how real and hard it is to see what is exactly going on and it takes time to process it. “Embrace scent of death” McCullen talked about how in a war zone with all the dead bodies around all that could be smell was death.

As Amy was in Africa she met and interview Peter Magubane in where he was arrested for taking a bunch of pictures of people cheering on the cause in South Africa. He stood in jail for 586 days having a small room to sleep on and not having a sink nor toilet. Magubane says “My camera is my mouth piece” this is a masterpiece that Magubane had spoken to Amy. There’s a lot of meanings for this but Magubane with the tone of voice that he had saying this, he clearly meant that a picture speaks louder than words. As Amy went to a chapel back in England there were lit candles representing the death and remembrance for every single journalist who has died doing their profession in a war zone. As Amy met up with Mohamed Shaffi being one of the only journalist that survived the attack in Somalia. Amy tagged along with Shaffi back to Somalia to the building that her own brother died at. As they both reached the building, Amy took a moment to look around. She stood strong and felt relieved as she saw everything for herself. 

This is an essay that I had written after watching the movie of what caused the death of Dan Eldon. His sister had interviewed many journalists asking them about their experience and if there were any techniques that they use for their survival.

New to Netflix

For December (2014)

Janelys Saez

About 36 million people have a Netflix account. With their account they get to watch TV shows and movies. For the month of December Netflix is streaming new movies and shows. Netflix is offering remarkable horror movies but don’t worry because so far there’s some holiday flicks that are already available.

In the first day of December Netflix streamed a few movies such as A Knight’s Tale (2001) which is about a man who wants to be a knight where he draws the eye of a douchebag and a noblewoman who’s not in his status. As also other movies has also streamed out that same day such as Almost Famous (2000), American Beauty (1999), Bewitched (2005), Jewtopia (2012), Knights of Badassdom (2014) that is about three friends who goes out to the woods to seek out and recreate dungeons plus the new upcoming season for the show American Horror Story which it’s going to be added in December 6^th and many more. It’s expected that every day there would be somewhat new streaming out, where Netflix members are excited to see.

  This was part for my group magazine. Our magazine was titled as "Entertainment Now", having articles talking about TV shows and movies.

Newspaper Article

This was an article for our school newspaper on October. "Are Attractive People treated better?" is a common asked question among others, with people having their opinion on it.

2015 Upcoming Movies

Janelys Saez

Within the new upcoming year new movies will come out as usual. So far, there’s 160 movies that are coming out and there’s 36 movies to be announced soon in the year of 2015. Expecting another year of movies of sequels including: Insidious Chapter 3, Jurassic World, Fast and Furious 7, Mission: Impossible V, Ted 2, The Bourne Identity 5, The Smurfs 3, James Bond 24, Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension and many more.

There’s has been some rumors on how Friday the 13^th may be coming out in March 13, 2015. But no official title, cast or crew has been announced as also Hollywood producers has not announced that this movie may come out but for now it’s a rumor. But if this upcoming movie does come out it says that the movie may not follow the story but it will have a different story of its own.  Previously the Insidious movies have always been released in the softer times of the year. But now the new future movies like Insidious: Chapter 3 is now been given the daring summer release date by Focus Features and Warner Bros. Insidious: Chapter 3 was intentional to be released in May but it was pushed back to June 5^th 2015. This movie is the prequel to the two previous movies Insidious and Insidious Chapter 2, the first movie trailer was just recently released and so far it looks like that the horror fans are up to it. As obviously Fast and Furious 7 is coming soon next year on April 4, 2014. Universal states that it’s hard to continue the movie because of the tragic death of one of the cast members Paul Walker. Universal states that the character “Brian O’Connor will get a happier ending than Paul Walker, instead of killing him they will make him retire”. As also the up-to-date rumors are that Paul Walker’s little brother Cody Walker will be playing a few stunts for Brian. Plus it says that Brian and Mia will have a happy ending where they’ll send them with their son in a safe place. Supporters will get to see the last of Walker’s unbelievable career.

Overall 2015 is filled with great movies to watch with friends and family members.

 Another article written by me for the school's newspaper. This article was put in the section of entertainment to students who would love to know what movies would be arriving soon to theaters. 

An Insider’s Guide 

to Surviving SOTA

By Janelys Saez

Have you seen those short little kids who might stumble into you in the hall or who you’ll see running to their classes? Well here’s an insider guide to all new comers and new 7^th graders. First of all is to not be nervous. Of course everybody was probably nervous on their first day of middle school. Now it’s always good to not be shy. For example, if you want to talk to someone just go for it and talk to them. It’s not like they’ll bite you.

 Please do not procrastinate. It’s always good to do your work early and to turn in early as well. Also you can go in and get extra help from your teachers if there’s time, but if not, you can always stay after school. They’ll be glad to help you out. For quizzes and tests you can do note cards. Trust me they help a lot.

Try not get into dramas, back stab someone, talk behind people back or get into fights. It’s hard to make friends, but it’s easy to ruin a friendship. Try not to be fake, just be the real you. Do your work. It may seem hard but trust me it’s for your own benefit. Please don’t even try to be a trouble maker. Be on your teacher’s good side. Try to make a friend in every of classes because then you’ll feel lonely. Go to sleep on a reasonable time. Eat breakfast every morning so that your stomach won’t be growling in your classes. Stay organized and try not to let people borrow your pencils, highlighters, pens etc... Because trust me sometimes they won’t give them back to you. But it’s also good to be nice once in a while. Warning: Now if you have gum, be prepared to get mobbed. School of the Arts may be hard but trust me it’s for your own benefit and it’ll get better. Don’t be alarmed when you see a mohawk guy with gauges wearing vans skating down the hall its just Tillotson. But be panicked when there’s a short little lady who’s chasing you down the hallway that’s Aspenleiter and she may tell you to go and change. And also if you give her an attitude telling that “No the skirt is not short” or “I’m not ‘bout to change” because trust me she’ll suspend you and make you go to Saturday school which we all hate. Be extra careful with your electronics. Over the summer every teacher was emailed asking them what was the most problem of students and of course they cellphones. Most likely the teachers dislike us and they want us to suffer. As always they’ll call the floor office which will call Aspenleiter. It’s funny how now Aspenleiter will take your cellphone and she’ll have it for the rest of the week making you serve Saturday school detention as also making your parents coming to pick up your cellphone.

Overall, there is a lot to know about the School of the Arts, and with this advice column, we make it a little easier to handle.

  This was an advice column for the school's newspaper in September. This article was written mostly for 7th graders or others who were new to the school.