EDGAR'S BLOG

All my experience in the English learning is marked by the English program of my school, or saying better, by my teacher in the four years of secondary school. When the level of the develop of the English language doesn't was bat in this institution, this person in particular had archaic teaching methods, like use of the half class time to write a lot of grammatical rules on the board for after use the second half of the class to read the rules in high voice. This way to teach make that I linked for a time the English with a bored practice. Besides, the low  requirement to obligate me to use the language in real contexts, speaking and listening, generate that I don hadn’t  the habit to use the English and try it make me very nervous. I think that most of the people, or at least a lot of people that I know, have or has have the same problem that I had when I enter to the university. This is why I consider that the method of learning promoted with the English program, or perh...

The journalism is a beautiful career: you can do a creative work with an important social content; in fact I think that the most important thing in a democratic society is the freedom of speech and the right of access to information. It is precisely at this point where I think that my country is very late and needs urgently a deep reform, to get better the journalism and, consequently, the democracy. But, which is the origin of the problem? I think that the mass communications in Chile don't have other objective than to sell, like whatever business. This error is a very serious problem that threat and makes me doubt about the real legitimacy of our democracy. How is possible that almost all the mass media are in the hands of the big economics groups? This should be unacceptable; the citizen’s voices are destined to die in the censorship camouflaged in the free market.       This situation should have been deleted with the return to the democracy at the early ninetee...

Since I began to study journalism I knew that at the moment to finish de career I want to continue my learning with a postgraduate program or, even, complete my journalism career with other major, although I think that this option means a big effort that maybe I don’t have the energies to do. Besides every year I research possible ways to specify this way, principally I thing to complement the journalism with the sociology or the philosophy, two careers that I regard are related with my current way. But this is an issue to other blog; here I explain my interest to make postgraduate studies. According to my interests my favorite subjects of journalism has be the audiovisual area, also I like the radiophonic journalism but I think the best way to learn more about that is working and practice the skills in the real world, in the medias, no through a postgraduate program, unlike the other two area I mentioned. I think that the motivation to specialize me in the audiovisual area is be...

My dream job nowadays is an ambition that I have since I a child: make movies. While when I began to like the cinema I dreamed with create fiction films with a lot of explosions and men with dark glasses, at time that I grow up I began to saw Psychological Thrillers and my interests changed, in that moment I thought that I wanted to make complexes characters focusing the point of view in their strange personalities. Although my aspirations has kept in the same area, the content and the styles of the movies that I want to create has change a lot, turning to the documentary films, what does not mean that till today I have a fascination for the fiction cinema. I think that the pleasure to watch movies is apart to the interest to create a movie. Actually, I regard that the work of a documentarist is perfect, especially if you have the possibility to travel around the world meeting interesting traditions of different peoples from different cultures. Share with persons, a creative job, ...

First of all I want to remember that I study journalism and not cinema, but the seventh art has always been one of the things I love the most. I also think that there is not much difference between the two, but I chose journalism because I consider it much more assumed as a political instrument, although the film is also. This is why in this blog I will have the luxury of talking about a movie I saw a few days ago: Mother! by Darren Aronofsky. This movie, released three weeks ago, is about a couple that lives in a house in the outside of the city. He is a poet and she does not seem to have a definite job but spends most of her time to rebuilding and arrange the house. As the plot progresses, visitors who admire the poet begin to arrive and complicate the coexistence in the home. Although there are multiple interpretations for each script, the reflection that this film generated in mine is that through the development of the history we have complicated more than necessary with...

The south of Chile is a magic place if you know how meet it. I learned this in my 2015 summer holidays, when with a group of four school friends bored of our "Santiaguino" lifestyle we decided to travel to the big island of Chiloé. We saved money during the second semester of that year and got camping articles with friends, the result was a wonderful trip. Our adventure began at the Llanquihue Lake, where we slept about a few days in the house of a friend in Puerto Varas, a beautiful and quite village with view to the blue lake at the foot of enormous volcanoes. There we passed the most relaxed days, walking around the city and sharing time with my friends.  After this relaxing time we began to meet a lot of places of the "Región de Los Lagos" till arrive to our objective: Chiloé. In those times we had a fascination with this island, specifically because his culture and mysticism, all the time our north was found a "brujo" (sorcerer) that could r...