Scripwriting and such

I’ve always been interested in writing. To create a world only by using your own words, I think, it is very fascinating. That’s why I’d like to take a postgraduate study focused on scriptwriting.

There’s a particular post graduate at Pontifical Catholic University of Chile that is about that. It’s a course that talks specifically about the screenplays, which, with all the Netflix-and-such fever, is something that in the last years has been always in our cultural field.

I would like to take a part-time course where I can learn from a person standing right in front of me. So, that’s why I’d like to take the PCU course. But I wouldn’t stop there.

I think that as an experience it could be really beneficial to take a similar course in another country. In the first place, because you can make research about the ways to tell this stories in other cultures. Just like in cinema, the TV series are very descriptive of the place they come from.

And after all this I would like to go beyond by taking a master’s on television studies in  Birmingham City University in the UK. I think that to be a screenwriter, I need to understand pretty well how the television works for the audience, how it builds realities from what it tells.

Travel for living

To enjoy your job, I think, is one of the goals of every person in the world. When you find yourself doing what really likes you it's a great feeling, to know that you have outsmarted the fact that you have to produce for living. Because when you are doing what you like, the job isn't a job, is an experience that will help you grow. And in my case a job like that it would whatever puts my feet in the world.
National Geographic Magazine is about that, in part. There are some writers from NatGeo that are always traveling around the world and telling their stories through journalism, and I think that is the best thing that can ever happen to you.
There is an entire world out there to know, and life is too short to spend it in an office. I know I'm only 22 and in someway, or maybe in everyway, life's still long to me. But hey, yesterday I was 10 and now I'm 22! What I'm trying to say is that maybe the problem isn't that life is too short, but that is too quick.
To have a job like this I think it would be important to always increase your cultural knowledge. And I'm not talking about history or art or that stuff. I'm talking about open up your mind, to learn to look through someone's perspective and learn from that.

Living with a stressed mind

How often do you dream? How often do you find yourself in a world that only exists in your imagination? And how often do you have repeated dreams? 

My answers: Everyday, everyday, never.

I always hear people talking about a repeated dream that is hunting them, like a helicopter attacking a flower, like a walk in the mist without seeing a thing or like falling from a building while UFOs are trying to chase you. But in my case I’ve never had to live a situation like that and I think that it's maybe because everyday I dream a different thing. Like today, I’ve dreamt that me and my friend met Trump in a dark night, or yesterday, that I’ve dreamt with a lion in the desert jumping at me.

Sometimes to have a different dream everyday of the week is really funny. But other times it comes to be exhausting. I mean, you go to sleep trying to get some rest out of the three, four or five hours that you can get before doing everything you have to do and surprise! your mind is still working. 

I guess that maybe someday in the future I will have a repeated dream, but for now I just live with a stressed mind that likes to work even in its sleep.

Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids

                                                             

Have you ever heard that phrase? Well, I have, in Quentin Tarantino's movie Kill Bill Vol.1.

This happens when The Bride, main character of the film, gets to meet O-Ren Ishii, victim number one of her Death List Five. And they are in a japanese bar about to start the showdown that will end in The Bride's revenge. But in this specific scene there are a lot of dead guys on the floor by the sword of our girl and just when we think that all of the enemies have been defeated in her way to the boss O-Ren Ishii, we hear motorbikes outside the bar with more henchmen to fight. So it's then Ishii says:

-You dind't think it was going to be that easy, did you?

So The Bride tells her that for a momento, yes, she did. The the both of them remembers the phrase their former master and trainer, Bill -yes, the guy The Bride it seeking to kill- used to tell them in the past:

"Silly Rabbit, Trix are for kids"

Such a magnificent moment wich starts the climax of a great movie.

ARCADE FIRE!!

Picture yourself in a sea of people, screaming to the sky, feeling the beat in your guts and rising your hand as if you were trying to pick up a star. That’s how I felt when in the stage in front of me, Arcade Fire was singing "Wake Up".

It’s was the end of the summer, or maybe the start of autumn, when the 4th version of Lollapalooza in Chile, arrived. With it, almost twenty singers and bands from all around the world, arrived with their guitars and microphones under the hot sun of Santiago.

I was 19 back then and the only two times I had been in a concert, was for national bands. So this was the first time I ever enjoyed the show of an international band.

This memories are never going to be erased from my mind. I felt alive, I felt young, I felt like if nothing else mattered singing the first verse of "Wake Up".