it's been a while

it's been ages since my last post.

will update later on the bloody "sembreak" and the catastrophic, but somehow fulfilling, media speaker series.

roadtrip yesterday, dated november 18, 2007.
with misha, jaja and jason.

from magallanes to ternate, cavite.

PUERTO AZUL.
Shake, Rattle and Roll 9.
ENGKANTO.

i actually got to see a real-life movie shoot yesterday.
yes, yes, i was jumping up and down in ecstasy yesterday. but just in my head.

IT WAS THE EPITOME OF COOLNESS.

we were "hanging out" at the monitor with director Topel Lee. haha! *jumps up and down*

Topel showed us the interior location, told us all sorts about lights and filters and big-ass stands and scaffolding (new big word), and basically taught us about real-life filmmaking in the span of FOUR hours.

i learned more in those four hours than in the lecture part of my two terms of FEATURE FILMMAKING and CINEMATOGRAPHY.

that says a lot.

may mas cool pa sa pagkatuto namin!!! pinaupo kami ni Topel sa monitor, sa labas ng location. Katabi namin siya, tapos nagkukuwentuhan lang tungkol sa movies at more movies at more more movies at mga napagdaanan niyang iba't ibang shoot. tsaka pala mga chismis. hehehehe.

the best!!!!! best afternoon of my life!!!!

tapos ang galing ni Topel mag multi-tasking.
God-mode ON. God-mode PAUSE. Interact with mortals. God-mode ON.

Topel: ...tapos nagpunta kaming NYPD. tas merong 21 fil-am cops dun.
Kat and Mish: wowww, galing, wooowwww...*more comments of exaltation*
DOP: Direk, *insert filmmaking term*
Topel stands, walks a bit forward to direct a cut-in
Topel returns near us, in front of monitor
Topel: tas, eh may talk pala sa NYU si..sino ba 'to..yung DOP ng seven tsaka fight club,
so iniisip namin kung tutuloy ba kami magtrabaho o papanoorin namin yung talk...

grabe. galing niya mag pause at play ng God-mode.

si God siya sa shoot kasi may mic lang siya near the monitor (na nasa labas ng location), tapos dun lang niya sinasabi yung commands niya, na naririnig sa interior location.

Si God ka pala eh.