This year I decided to take AV Production. This is a weighted class
that you must take to get on the K-AHS tv program. A group of friends
and I decided to take this class because we were really interested in
movies and making funny shorts. My friends and I look forward to being
on K-AHS in two years. It has only been six weeks so far in the school
year and so far I already love the class. The tests are kind of hard
but it is well worth it. I have already learned more than I could have
imagined about the background of how characters are made and the way
real screenplay writers make their films. We also get to watch lots of
movies and compare them with the scripts and see if we imagined the
same thing that was in the movie. The activities in class are also
really fun because a lot of them have to do with watching films and
even writing your own.  Currently we are working in pairs on a script
of a short film that we are supposed to write. In this project we have
already written treatments and come up with our own characters that we
can use. This is a really neat and hard process that is also really
fun at the same time. Everyone in the class is working on a script for
the short film, the idea had to be something that could be filmed on
school grounds. When everyone is done with their scripts Mr. Garcia is
going to read all of them and decide which idea was the best, with the
best characters and written the best. After he determines which one is
the best he will choose it to be the one we use as a class. As a class
we are going to make a short film that will actually be filmed at
Austin High by Austin High students. There is a lot to look forward to
besides this project and I am very excited for learning all the ways
of a screenplay writer a director and a camera man. If you have any
interest at all with cameras, writing, movies or even just learning
new things in general I highly recommend this class because you will
love it.

Tanner Mauro
7th period