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)