Robert Rodrguez By: Donovan Nogier Rodrguez was born in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Mexican - Amaerican

parents Rebecca, a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodrguez, a salesman. He began his interest in film at age 11 when his father bought one of the first VSR home, which came with a camera. While attending St. Anthony High School, he was commissioned to videotape the school's football games. According to his sister he was fired soon after for shooting them with a cinematic style, getting shots of parents' reactions and the ball traveling through the air instead of shooting the whole play. There he met Carlos Gallardo; they both shot films on video throughout high school and college. After graduating Rodriguez went to the College of Communication at the University of Texas where he also developed a love of cartooning. His grades were not high enough to get into the school's film program, so he invented a daily comic strip entitled Los Hooligans with many of the characters based on his siblings in particular, one of his sisters, Maricarmen. The comic proved to be quite successful, running for three years in the student newspaper The Daily Texan while Rodrguez continued to make short films. Rodrguez grew up shooting action and horror short films on video, and editing on two VCRs. Finally, in the fall of 1990, his entry in a local film contest earned him a spot in the university's film program where he made the award-winning 16 mm short Bedhead. The film chronicles the amusing misadventures of a young girl whose older brother sports an incredibly tangled mess of hair that she cannot tolerate. Even at this early stage, Rodrguez's trademark style began to emerge to be quick cuts, intense zooms, and fast camera movements deployed with a sense of humor that offsets the action. Rodriguez at the premiere of Grindhouse, Austin, Texas.This short film attracted enough attention to encourage him to seriously attempt a career as a filmmaker. He went on to shoot the action flick El Mariachi in Spanish. El Mariachi, which was shot for around $7,000 with money raised by his friend Carlos Gallardo and participating in medical research studies, won the Audience Award at the In 2001, Rodrguez enjoyed his first $100,000,000 USD Hollywood hit with Spy Kids, which went on to become a movie franchise, with the third film released in a crude form of 3D. A third "mariachi" film also appeared in late 2003, Once Upon a Time in Mexico which completed the Mariachi Trilogy. He operates a production company called Troublemaker Studios, formerly Los Hooligans Productions. Sin City was a critical hit in 2005 as well as a box office success, particularly for a hyperviolent comic book adaptation that did not have name recognition comparable to the X-Men or Spider-Man. He has stated that he is interested in eventually adapting all of Miller's Sin City comic books. Rodrguez released The Adventures of Shark Boy and Lava Girl in 2005, a superhero-kid movie intended for the same younger audiences as his Spy Kids series. Shark Boy & Lava Girl was based on a story conceived by Rodrguez's 7 year-old son, Racer, who was given credit for the screenplay. The film was not a major success, having grossed 39 million dollars at the box office. Rodriguez wrote and directed the film Planet Terror for the collaboration with Quentin Tarantino in their double feature Grindhouse released in 2007. The 10 mintion film school was all about how he was able to get the get shoots for his film like he had to get a machine gun from the local police and the gun was only able to fire 1 blank before jamming so he video tapped different agnles of the guy shooting till it look like he was shooting a rapid fire machine

gun. He also talked about how he was able to get a great shot of the guy ziplinnig down onto the bus. In my upcoming film I will be useing the tips I learned like quick cuts, intense zooms, and fast camera so the film will look good and cheap and it will like I put a lot of hard work but didn't. I will also be using the different camera view to make it look like the person is doing it but really isn't.