3 weeks ago
April 10, 2012
When we were doing our Research Proposal for INSERCH in study hall.
tangina kit super benta!!!! HAHAHAHAHA
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April 10, 2012
This is my favorite picture of us. Haha! Look at your face, Maia. So cute. :))
BAHAHAHAHA WE’RE TOO CUTE!
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1 month ago
I shot the clips of the fireworks during the pyromusical event in Mall of Asia. The music I chose is a cover of an old kundiman song called Sa Ugoy Ng Duyan by Lucio San Pedro. The guitarist that created the cover is Raffy Lata. He followed the arrangement by Jose Valdez. I carefully picked out the strong and elaborate outbursts of the fireworks and synchronized it with the music, putting emphasis on the strong beats by showing fireworks exploding.
I chose a single symbol to depict the many metaphors it can convey. Fireworks explode into different shapes, designs, sizes, color, and style. In the short story, Dead Stars, by Paz Marquez Benitez, Alfredo (Luke Sinclair) was engaged a woman named Esperanza (Belle Bates). Despite being engaged to Esperanza, Alfredo met Julia (Indi Nowicki), and eventually had feelings for her. In the beginning of the scene, low-light, out-of-focus shots of fireworks were on screen to symbolize how Alfredo’s feelings for Julia were gradual and not something immediate.
Fireworks symbolize the dream that Alfredo has of getting the girl he loved. It is like a light, illuminating what seems like the path to achieve his dream of making Julia his. But is his dream to make Julia his involves true love, or is it just lust, or maybe infatuation? The outward explosion of the fireworks also symbolizes the sudden spark of Alfredo feeling something so strong for another woman. The reverse explosion of the fireworks and the gold specs slowly dropping symbolizes the death of love and emotions that Alfredo felt for Esperanza. In one scene in the opening credits, fireworks burst in the sky symbolizing the strong feelings Alfredo had for Esperanza. The firework explosion then retreats and reverses until remnants are invisible, which symbolizes Alfredo’s dying emotions for Esperanza. Finally, the scene cuts to a different set of fireworks exploding outwards. This symbolizes Alfredo’s strong feelings for Julia, which is the same intensity of his former feelings for Esperanza.
The fireworks’ ends scintillating symbolize Esperanza’s anger when she assumed, and correctly for that matter, Alfredo had feelings for Julia. It also symbolizes Julia’s disappointment when she found out that Alfred was getting married.
Firework as something lustrous that eventually fades after a couple of seconds just like Julia when Alfredo came to her hometown and saw her, it seemed like she lost the youth and luster she once had. Aside from it being a metaphor for luster, fireworks fading can also be a metaphor for the end of Alfredo’s stage of being hung up on Julia.
12.7
Hybrid of 5.1 and 3.4
Type: Photo Essay
Format: Web Page
Working Title: Enigma
Thesis statement: Every man has a story to tell, and sometimes it takes more than just a glance to decode each person’s story.
Objective:
After viewing the project, the target audience should
1. Be open-minded and more sensitive of the people around them
2. Avoid judging a person by his physical appearance
Primary Target Audience: 20-25, Female, Class AB
Description:
The series of photos will showcase different enigmatic people who’s ages range from 18 to 25. The photos of these people will be full body photo, a medium shot, a head shot, and one shot of what they do for a living or the story they want to tell.
12.6
Hybrid of 6.4 and 11.3
Type: Photo Essay
Format: Web Page
Working Title: Pious Pilate
Thesis statement: The irony of man being both religious and doing immoral things.
Objective:
After viewing the project, the target audience should
1. Be aware that there are people who don’t seem the way they are
2. Be aware that there are people who act in certain ways when people are watching
Primary Target Audience: 20-25, Male, Class BC
Description:
The series of photos will showcase different people praying, attending novenas, hearing mass, attending processions, and other religious acts. The same people will also be photographed while they are doing malevolent things, like gambling, doing drugs, smoking, having a lot of women, excessively drinking, buying adult magazines, and etc.
12.5
Hybrid of 10.3 and 7.4
Type: Short Documentary
Format: DVD
Working Title: “Pahinging Barya”
Thesis statement: Showcasing the relationship of street children with the people they usually beg alms of.
Objective:
After viewing the project, the target audience should
1. Be more aware of poverty
2. Be more open to the street children they encounter, or at least give it a thought.
Primary Target Audience: 18-24, Male, Class AB
Description:
In the Ministop next to SDA, JJ and his sister usually hang around with a lot of the students from CSB, asking each one of them for spare change. In Agno, there are also a couple of street children that beg for alms from the students of DLSU. Despite their impoverished situation, they eventually shared a good relationship between the well-off students of both schools.
12.4
Hybrid of 7.5, 5.6, and 5.2
Type: Short Documentary
Format: DVD
Working Title: Becky
Thesis statement: The life of a Filipino gay man is not as fabulous as most people would think.
Objective:
After viewing the project, the target audience should
1. Be more open-minded towards the LGBT community
2. Be more aware of the lives that gay people live
Primary Target Audience: 18-24, Female, Class AB
Description:
A documentary about Filipino gay men in their teens, 20s, and 30s to showcase the similarities and differences in the way they talk, dress, approach men, and go through their everyday lives.
12.3
Hybrid of 3.3, 11.5, and 4.1
Type: Short feature
Format: DVD
Working Title: Rumors
Thesis statement: Trust shouldn’t be given away freely because it always comes with a price.
Objective:
After viewing the project, the target audience should
1. 1. Be aware of the malicious things that are happening around them
2. 2. Be able to gauge the gravity of how spreading false statements, come with great consequences
3. 3. Be able to strengthen the relationship they have with the people they trust
Primary Target Audience: 18-24, Female, Class AB
Description:
Catherine has been the favorite of everyone in school. She was perfect. Or was she really? It will be a non-linear type of feature. It begins with an unseen gunman shooting Denise straight between the eyes. Then a bell will ring, and it will show the university quadrangle, Catherine smiling, and noticing that people are giving her weird looks. She catches up with her friend, Denise and asks her if she noticed that people were giving her strange looks. Denise confides in her that a lot of nasty rumors are going around about her and Denise, herself, does not know what to believe in. The next scene is a scene from the weekend before Catherine found out that rumors were going around about her. There was a huge party in Jack’s house. Jack is Catherine’s boyfriend. A lot of crazy things went down that night and Catherine got involved unwillingly. Someone happened to videotape the events of that night and spread it online. Catherine confronted Jack asking him what was going on because she doesn’t remember a thing from that night. It is revealed that Jack and Denise are having an affair with each other and they were set to destroy Catherine’s pristine reputation because of jealousy. But hell hath no fury like a woman scorned, in the end Catherine kills Denise but no one ever found out she was the one who did it.. Instead, Jack was the one the court found guilty of murdering Denise. Catherine’s reputation was cleared, the video of her was took down, and no one knows the real secret she’s been hiding, which is killing Denise.
12.2
Hybrid of 3.6 and 5.3
Type: Short feature
Format: DVD
Working Title: Juaning
Thesis statement: Priorities will change when they need to, and sometimes people don’t have the power to prevent nature from creating the change, but this is the change they need in their lives.
Objective:
After viewing the project, the target audience should
1. 1. Be able to give importance to the people who need more care and attention
2. 2. Be more aware and sensitive of the different people around us, especially the differently-abled people in our society.
Primary Target Audience: 20-25, Female, Class BC
Description:
Cecile is a college senior. She studied high school in Ilocos Norte and moved to Manila for college. She barely knew anyone except her boyfriend, who was going to the same university that she was, but she didn’t mind because all she was focused on was to do well in school, graduate with honors, and find a job that pays well upon graduation. She was on track and doing well in her psychology course until something happened just after her junior year ended. She met John, an old Caucasian man that had a mental disability. John had a brain of 10 year old. Cecile met John through an outreach program. She fondly called John Juaning instead because he reminded her of her loving grandfather that passed away before she went to Manila for college. Over the summer, she visited Juaning everyday and took care of him, played with him, and told him stories. At the end of the summer, Cecile told Juaning that she wouldn’t be coming to see him everyday anymore because she was going to be too busy with school. Juaning couldn’t understand and the next day, he ran away. Cecile did everything she could to find him, missing quizzes, failing to attend class, and even throwing her relationship with her boyfriend to the pits. In the end, Cecile finds Juaning in a morgue. Gang members that lurked nearby the hospice Juaning was staying in beat John to death. In the end, Cecile gives a lengthy monologue of how she felt about John, how she treated him like her own grandfather, how he gave meaning to her life, and how he was the most special thing that ever happened to her in her new life in Manila.
12.1
Hybrid of 10.1 and 3.7
Type: Short Feature
Format: DVD
Working Title: Niño Santos
Thesis statement: A person is more than his physical appearance and the name he carries.
Objective:
After viewing the project, the target audience should be able to see people beyond their physical attributes.
Primary Target Audience: 17-23, Male, Class BC
Description:
The short feature will revolve around a college student named Niño Santos. Niño will be first depicted as a clean looking, religious, smart, and obedient boy, just like his name suits him. In the duration of the feature, there will be flashbacks of Niño being forced to be a sacristan when he was younger. He was always forced to go but every week, it was more difficult for his parents to force him to attend. Later it is revealed why Niño never wanted to be a sacristan. The priest was taking advantage of him. He continued to carry out his appearance of being the perfect Christian, but little did people know that Niño involves himself in a lot dangerous and malicious activities. In one of his classes, Niño meets a girl who also seemed to be like the perfect Christian. Niño takes this opportunity to corrupt her. The last scene will be of Niño wearing the same kind of clothing he usually wears to school, but this time he shaved his hair into a Mohawk. The scene then cuts to him leaving his room to go to school and the camera will pan down to show the girl he met in class is tied up and dead under his bed.
