Thursday, March 27, 2008

I don't want to GRADUATE!

The photo shows one my unforgettable moments during my internship at the RMN for radio broadcasting.
This APRIL 12 would be my last day in my beloved school HOLY CROSS OF DAVAO COLLEGE specifically in AB Department, Mass Communication program. Huhuhu... I don't want to graduate. I would be missing our production, challenges and the faces of my friends and foes. I don't want to leave my organization, CROSSROADS,student pub, where I am the Editorial Consultant. I want to attack more issues in the campus..haha. I don't want to leave the Masscom Center where my development develops, my mental and physical changes change. I hate to be in the outside world. I would be missing the cameras, computers and the people (teachers). I don't want to land a job! Ok, I got the guts and the talent but for now I want to enjoy more in the life I have started in this institution. I just don't want to leave the imprints. By the way, to all my avid readers (hehe) sorry if I can't update my blog on time because I got a lot to do with before this fucking graduation comes! See ya next...Long Live BLOGGERS!

Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Loving a WATER HORSE

Ever since the cinema begun, I don't like cartoon-like films. It does not entice me to watch it on theatre. But this time, I was corrected by my own judgement. My instructor, Katrina Angela Posadas invited the rest of the MassCom students to watch for it may somehow helps us to remove stress and refresh our "windang" minds because of the consecutive strenuous productions. Anyway, the films screenplay is not that big. It is a story of friendship, courage and surrender of pride. The plot is not that impressive because I have seen films before creatively done by just a "voice over" of the protagonist where he reveals himself at the last part of the picture. Still, I love the film for it has message to everyone. Even if the story is very light but obviously, it speaks for something and call for something (I want you to discover what it is).

The Water Horse: Legend of the Deep is a 2007 fantasy film directed by Jay Russell. The screenplay, written by screenwriter Robert Nelson Jacobs, is an adaption of Dick King-Smith's children's novel The Water Horse. It stars Alex Etel as a young boy who discovers a mysterious egg and cares for what hatches of it: a 'water horse' that becomes the fabled Loch Ness Monster. Emily Watson, Ben Chaplin and David Morrissey also star.

Walden Media, in collaboration with Beacon Pictures and Revolution Studios produced the film. Visual effects, which included the computer-generated imagery of the monster (named "Crusoe" by Etel's character) were completed by the New Zealand-based companies Weta Digital and Weta Workshop — visual effects companies who worked with Walden Media before on the productions of The Chronicles of Narnia films. The Water Horse was released in the United States on December 25, 2007 and in the United Kingdom on February 8, 2008.

Saturday, March 08, 2008

10,000 BC

This is another Roland Emmrich's successful film. 10,000 BC is a prehistoric epic which the filmmakers are trying to create characters and environment happened ten thousand years before the birth of Christ. Mammoth hunter D'Leh (Steven Strait), a member of a hunter-gatherer tribe living in 10,000 B.C., travels through unknown lands on a quest to rescue his people from extinction. Leading an army, D'Leh uncovers a now lost civilization while in pursuit of a warlord who kidnapped his love, Evolet (Camilla Belle). D'Leh and his army come face-to-face with a saber-toothed tiger, woolly mammoth, and terror birds in the journey to save his people. I also like the twist when D'Leh realized that not only Evolet, his lover, will be freed but also the people in that lost city where slavery and idolatry exist. I thought the film is all about the Mammoth and the hunters but the mammoths are actually the saviors of D'Leh's mission. You really love this film. Even if so fictional but you can see and feel the real meaning of sacrifice in love and how to sacrifice just to set aside that love for another mission. What are you waiting for? Go...