A Little About Me

I’m Nick Zamora and I’m a Electronic Media Major at Texas State. I’m from Converse, Texas, which is right outside of San Antonio. I’ve always enjoyed watching movies. I feel in love with the art of cinema when I got into high school when I discovered the Cohen Brothers and their works. The Big Lebowski was the first movie that I saw that the medium could be used to tell a story that isn’t conventional.

After I saw The Big Lebowski, I moved into other directors who had been known to write stories similarly to the Cohen Brothers. Quentin Tarantino was the next director I discovered with his film Pulp Fiction. I fell in love with it instantly. The way that the film plays with the structure of time to tell it’s story was insane to my 16 year-old self.

The reason I wanted to start a blog about movies was to give people my thoughts on the movies I have seen. I want to share how I felt prior to seeing a film, with what I have heard by word of mouth, and how I felt after seeing the film. I won’t spoil anything about the movie to save the experience for viewers to go see. This will mostly be me saying what I liked and didn’t like about the movies, why I saw them and if I would recommend a movie based on what others like to see.

Analytics and a Reflection

When I first started my blog, I didn’t know if anyone was really going to be interested in what I had to say about movies. I feel like I don’t have that many good takes on what people watch and I don’t want to come off like I know everything about movies. My anxiety went away when I made my first posts and people were actually reading what I put on the blog. It felt really good to know I have an audience.

Looking at my site traffic, I don’t get a lot of views but my blog has only been up for five months. I also don’t have a schedule for when I post my reviews. In the furture I plan on setting a schedule and posting on a regular basis to keep an audience and hopefully getting some more views.

My biggest week was March 9-15, I had the most of my views for the time being. My most popular post was the Blog Review, which is a bit of a surprise because I didn’t think anyone wanted to read about that.

I think to improve my blog is by adding things other than reviews. I want to add content that is more engaging and can entertain people who don’t really care about reviews. I think my favorite part of the project was the experience of making my own blog and website. This will help me in a professional setting, as I can apply for a postion who specializes social media and website posts.

For the time being, I’m going to take a break from the blog for a little bit so I can figure out how I’m going to implement the ideas I have for the future. I’m excited that this is just the beginning of what I have planned with this blog and I can’t wait to reflect again at the end of the year.