First Blog

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My First Blog

By Nico Alves


My name is Nico Alves and the role that films and movies play in my life is pretty important. For examples short films on the media like TikTok play a big role as I use it almost everyday whenever I am bored so without it I would be very very bored. Movies play a less important role, but their not totally unimportant; I don't watch movies as often as other things but whenever I'm bored at home ill watch a movie every now and then and do look forward to when more movies start to come out. Some movie genres I enjoy are rom-coms, thrillers, action movies, and horror movies. There is no directors or anyone that I dislike or aspire too as I don't really pay attention to the directors just the actors and producers. What I hope to gain through making this portfolio is too understand the production behind movies and why they do certain things, also I want to pass this class.

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