Model: Joadel Habitan and Charmaine Camara
Room: A1117 (School of Design and Arts Building)
Camera: Nikon D40
Lighting: Powerbook G4
Date of Photoshoot: July 11th, 2009 1-4pm
Professor: Jomel Gregorio

Race Towards the Midterms next week!

Friday

8-11am: Photoshoot for Conctpho (Still Life)
11 am-6pm: Finish Press Cafe and Boutique Hotel websites for Webdev1
6pm-12mn: Start work on 2DAnim1 Midterm Plates

Saturday
8-11am: Continue with 2Danim Midterm Plates
11am-4pm:Photoshoot for Conctpho (Portrait)
4pm-12mn: 2DAnim1, and Scriptwriting for Vidprod1

Sunday
12nn-12mn: 2DAnim1 and Vidprod1

Monday
8-11am: 2dAnim1 before 11am deadline
11am-6pm: Webdev1 before deadline/Develope CP’s for Conctpho in Paco

Tuesday
8-11am: Submit CP’s
2-6pm: How I wish I could boycott 3DANIM1…
6pm-12mn: Finish Vidprod1 script

Wednesday
8-11am: Submission for Vidprod1 script

Done with: Cadvis1

Wish me luck!

I haven’t been feeling well since this morning. No need to elaborate but this pain I’m feeling right now is pulling me down to the “stress-na-stress” level. I’m like a balloon that’s about to pop because my head is filled up with worries of this and that, as if I’m carrying the weight of 2 elephants with somebody punching my midsection.

Academically, I’ve been feeling the pressure with a lot of deadlines for almost all my classes. I got stacked with a lot of work ranging from character designs to 3 working websites to frustrating 3d and techincal designs via Maya and Autocad respectively, and a whole lot more.

To think they all worth 18 units just for the term alone.

You guys may remember this old skit from Nickelodeon years ago about this certain boy’s body parts that’s working like a factory or an office?. My brain’s working 24/7 in order for me to find ways of seeking a solution to each and every one of problems, and give utmost priority to urgent matters.

I could still feel pain in my midsection, to think I ate soft food all day, drank plenty of fluids, and didn’t even ate anything oily except for the beef steak meal I had for only 65 pesos (basically composed of a spoonful of bistek, a cup of rice, and some potato fries).

I just hope I’d be well enough to go to school tomorrow, or else. Good thing that peppermint tea is what keeping my stomach together.

Just got my first draft back this morning during my Vidprod1 class and Sir Dodos gave me some good pointers on developing my screenplay since it has potential. He noted the way I write sucky “cheesy lines” which is true. Blame it on the many soaps I’ve watched in the past up til the present.

I’ve yet to make changes on the initial 10-page draft but already have a couple of ideas on what the necessary edits should be.

First: the working title. Before, I named my story in its earliest conception as “The Loving”, which I chose because the title refers to my core characters whose views and perspectives about love and life are different yet the essentialy same.

But I realized that I can’t use it as a title since there’s this old series that also goes simply as “Loving”. That show ended more than 10 years ago so I made a temporary change in the meantime as a Filipino translation of the first working title: “Ang Pagmamahal”.

My prof cited that the title itself reveals too much about the plot so I was thinking of a new name that fits well with what I’m trying to show from my way of storytelling. Got a bit inspired from another show, the title of the script at present is “Twists and Turns”. I won’t reveal much on what my story’s all about but as a small teaser, I made a flash forward containing an vital twist that serves as the end result of the consequences inflicted upon the characters.

I’ll leave you guys with this bit from “Twists and Turns””:

Scene ?: EXT-CEMETERY-LATE AFTERNOON

Sabi ng iba, binibiyaya ang mga taong nabubuhay sa mabuti habang ang mga nabubuhay lamang sa masama ay pinarurusahan. Paano kaya kung ang mabuti ay hindi nararapat sa biyayang natatanggap niya at ang masama ay nasa tama? Ito ang kuwento ng tatlong tao na may kani-kaniyang ambisyon sa buhay. May kani-kaniyang kabutihan at kasamaan, at lahat ay nagnanais na lumigaya.

Scene ?: INT-CARASCO BEDROOM-EVENING

LILY, alam mo kung bakit ikaw ang pinili ko bilang tanging tao na mamahalin ko sa buong buhay mo. Mahal kita, iyun lang. Hindi bale kung perfect ka, basta kung mahal mo ako, mahal kita.

SOBRANG CHEESY TALAGA!!

Used three types of lighting (backlighting, one-sided light, and ****).
Models: Danielle Qing, Jim Tan, and James Habitan

Equipment: Nikon D40, studio lights, soft box, umbrella, RF trigger, reflector

Suggestions, questions, and constructive criticism ay welcome na welcome po! Example: I have a feeling I didn’t pull off the “butterfly effect” in the latter photographs in a technically correct way than what I was hoping for but I’m willing to learn from my mistakes nonetheless.

😀

First few pics were taken using wrong WB so I had it changed to Flash WB immediately from 631 onwards.

Equipment: Nikon D40, limelight, reflector

Pa-judge po, salamat!

I’m planning on saving money for the next few weeks so I could buy myself some gadgets I’ve been wanting to buy as well as replace the ones I had quite sometime now. Starting today, I’ll be saving up at least a hundred pesos a day until I save enough/more than enough money to buy myself a new cellphone, and a new pair of earphones for my I-Pod.

I was looking around yesterday in Robinson’s Place-Ermita and I saw this really cool cellphone worth only Php4,500 more or less. I could buy it on an 6-monthy installment basis, about twelve hundred smackers. It has a 3 megapixel camera, has its own radio, goes with its own pair of earphones. This pocket-sized phone is just small enough to safely hide inside my pocket and just stays there. LOL!

Earphones are relatively cheaper, ranging from as little as Phop500 (original and not fake) to as much as Php10,000! I’m planning these cool pair from the Apple Store we have in school but I’m being tempted by the cheaper prices offered by another Apple Store in Rob Place. The one in CSB cost Php1,200 while a pair of Philips earphones a half cheaper. But I kinda want earphones that’s worth its price: durable, effective and above all: hindi nasisira agad-agad.

Wish me luck! 😀

What will you do in 46 school days?

A plan prophesied to change the way people do things their way…

Will it last? Will it succeed? Or is it doomed from the very start…

The answer starts tomorrow, June 30, onwards til the 46th school day.

Tomorrow…62 grains of sand will run down the hourglass until there’s none left.

–Durugtungan–

(Took 10 minutes to make a 30-second TVC)
Created through Windows Movie Maker
BGM: Motorcycle Robot Chase (Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles Soundtrack)

I remember being a KPOP fanatic way back in high school. I got addicted thanks to BoA who was singing a set of songs for this all-musical variety show called “Showking M” and next thing I knew I got hooked on KPOP shows like Show Music tank, Showbiz Extra and most of all, Pops in Seoul where I fell in love watching VJ Soy, which I kinda of compared as Korea’s Heart Evangelista but that’s another story.

That was 2003…

Now? My ears kinda got glued to more mainstream…OPM, RnB and all that jazz but I still have that KPOP heart in me.

It was also that time when I took an interest on discovering what skills and talents I may have had and thus started trying out on new hobbies and interests. Among those I took up in the long-time is learning how to play a violin. From 2004 til almost exactly 2008 last year, I was working very hard to know the basics, the know-how and the pieces in order to become a good violinist.

I admit that it is hard. My fingers (especially my two thumbs) sored on every whim of the bow and every string I have to hold to make a note. But the hardship ends with reaping its fruits…I feel that week by week I get better and better and more familiar with the way I play. I may not turned out to being the next Yo Yo Ma in the four years learning the craft, nevertheless, the knowledge and and experience became a part of me that’ll never go away. I had to leave violin for the meantime because of the demanding schedule I had at the time (one of the many reasons I quit the CSB Debate Society 2 years before).

A year later, I decided to try out for DLSU’s Pops Orchestra, one of a select few orgs I believe that recruit Benildeans. It was actually a one-year pilgrimage, having learned about it from an old classmate of mine in Philien (Philippine Literature in English) who happens to play the violin and is a member of Pops. But time and again, gaining entry is a difficult task to achieve considering that effin’ old hooligan that looks like a militant activist in charge of the Visitor’s Desk in the South Gate. Don’t want to go there, but I really really want to see him disappear for once.

And  disappear he did several months ago. I was able to gain entry inside and inquired about Pops in DLSU’s Cultural Office. I learned that the org is going to recruit members the next term (this term!) so I decided to wait it out til then.

 Today was simply great timing: 1)I get to have my refund from CGO back this day and 2)I plan on printing my next CP (contact print) for Conctpho in Paco (Because they’re so cheap and I wanna explore Manila more!). So timing is just right.
I  wanna thank Jeco for reminding me about the recruitment week, at least I still had some time left to achieve my goal.

The cultural office directed me to go to the “band room” in the Science Building that’s somewhere near the La Salle sports complex. Too bad my permit only allows me to go to not anywhere else but the library where I told the evil man from the South Gate that I’ll be going, which I did went so I could have access to a book that’s only found there (I want to thank Niko for that bit by the way).

I got hold of the school’s number and Pop’s extension number and I was able to talk to what I presume as one of the org’s officers, which calls himself ironically by the initials “JL”…Same initials as I (except people don’t usually call me by that nickname other than James, Jaime and, rarely, Luis).

JL told me that he’ll text me but for the meantime, he’ll try to arrange my audition with his supervisor and fixed the necessary permits for me to gain entry without any hussle from “the rotten old goon of the South Gate”.

Pray that I get myself in…

We are the Few, Loud, and Proud! Faith in the Flame!
ANIMO BENILDE!