Saturday, March 08, 2003
SILENCE ON THE SET
The Damage Report - End of Week #34
NOTE: A Weekly Summary of events and happenings I've experienced at La Salle.
"Video tape, Microcassette tape, and Red tape."
WHAT?! NSTP slams it's doors on Broadjourn1-1. How dare they! Wala ba silang konsensya para sa mga kaklase ko nag-hirapan sa pag-luto at sa pag-paplano?! Outrageous! Sadly, I wasn't physically and mentally affected by the sudden rejection last Tuesday. I didn't help out in cooking or anything, since we had a shooting in Sociology. But the utter disrespect and rejection that class president Cristina Aure received was just something to be angry about.
"The NSTP-CWTSP Mishap"
"Intindihan mo naman kami." our two NSTP instructors tell the faces of a post-excited class. "Binigyan kayong time na gawin ng party niyan." they further.
And of course, the class would argue. "Ma'am, sayang yun pancit. Hindi lang kami effecto dito, yun mga bata at mga pamilya namin na may alam may farewell party pa. Ngayon."
The cycle would repeat itself.
"Intindihan mo naman ang side natin." the NSTP instructor, whom we all appreciated until she slapped all our faces with the cancellation of the planned farewell party. The food, the preparation, the money, all put into something going to waste.
Like a broken record they were.
And that wasn't it. They dared to continue about an issue that was delicate and sensitive at the time. She opened her mouth and said "Baka sinasabi ninyo pass kayo lahat sa NSTP."
What?!
About 90% of the class conducted their NSTP-CWTSP services and work with success. In fact, after the Christmas Party we held last Midterm in NSTP, our instructors used the Written Documentary (by Tina) and Photo Documentary (Badge and myself) as a setting example to other courses and sections about NSTP. We've had some other students at La Salle suddenly recognizing some of my classmates that they've seen in pictures. It appears our Clear File is doing the rounds in other NSTP classes.
We gave them what they wanted, and still they threaten some of us may fail.
"The Word Behind the Set of On-Air"
HOLD ON! The NSTP Mishap was on Tuesday, let's go to Monday now. Last Monday was haggard! New probationary member Ayesha de Celis (my classmate) of the AB Comm Channel took her first seminar with us. The guest speaker was the founder of 24fps, and now currently working with ON-AIR and for a production company on ABC-5. We reviewed an advanced episode of ON-AIR and it was fun getting the insights and backstage information about it. I never imagined that the set of ON-AIR (white background) which features host JM (also of Studio 23) was actually his room in his own house somewhere.
The seminar flushed us out of Intensive English (oh thank you) but we missed critical information about the debate next week. It's with the AB Comm Channel that I feel a sense of tradition all of a sudden. I mean, I was the one who applied back then. Now, I'm watching the applicants try out as I sit with the Executive Board. (naks naman, EB na ako!)
Monday night I was at the dorm working with my new tape recorder.
Film shootings took place across the first half of the week. We shot at Ate Angge's, at Charmagne's Dorm, at the Brejanah Alley, and also at the school. It was for our Sociology project due on Thursday.
I didn't want to be so meticulous when it came to shooting with different camera angles, but I decided that it was still my duty to see to it that the camera and the footage would be the best we can make it using the little time that we had.
Jhen lost her voice due to directing, but she got it back a few hours into Wednesday. For Intensive English's interview, I decided to interview Ate Precious of Fiat, because she's a disk jockey on radio who took some time off to work with her restaurant in front of La Salle.
In JOU1-1 Filipino, I watched them have their defense. Jerson showed the class his group's documentary for TANZA-CAVITE CITY. He did pretty good and I liked it. I mean, not bad for a one-night only edit. Sayang lang walang lapelle. With that, the voices would be loud and clear. Plus, seeing classmates like Kate Quisumbing and them doing really good in the interviews and adlibs was nice. Broadjourn talaga.
On Thursday and In swimming, that's where I somehow did the backstroke better than the Freestyle. I did the backstroke first because I thought it was the hardest. It was also the first time I crossed the pool. For the Freestyle, I thought it was the easiest. It is the easiest, but it requires more energy since the backstroke is more relaxed as you can breathe anytime you want. But in the Freestyle, I lost control of my cycle and rhythm and not even half-way down the length of the pool I was doing everything wrong. I got passing for both, but the Freestyle disappoints me. I got an 80, while classmates got 90, 95, and 100's. I was bad trip, but some classmates told me "it's better than nothing, and remember there are some classmates that dropped PE-Swimming all in all."
They're right. Thanks for the pick-me-up.
Than the damn research paper dragged into my Friday and Saturday....
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