168 Movie + WOW + G-Force

For the fun of it (and since it’s all over and I’M over it), here’s our movie poster for our IT168 finals project:

Shot this at school (with John Terrado and Ian Ong assisting me) just at parking lot near the basketball court of my university. Film premiere was last October 10 at the Rigney Hall, free for all. Good thing there wasn’t much of a crowd. I literally sank in my seat almost fainting with embarrassment hearing myself say my lines.

For those of you wondering, our genre was “suspense”. And I do hope it was suspenseful! Too bad the audio system at the hall was terrible. I don’t think people really heard what we were saying thus I do not think they were able to grasp the whole 20-minute story. Anyway, I think we did well editing and screenplay-wise so I’m satisfied. Special thanks to Paolo Mañalac for shooting and directing for us.

I’ve been really excited about this months before and kept prodding my friends to go with me. Haha! I mean, who doesn’t love magic shows anyway?? They’re so cool! I know for a fact that I easily get impressed and amazed so this was really the cherry on top of my ice-cream in months.

It was called “World of Wonders” by Facedown Productions and Events. They even had a free photobooth outside for the early guests! We were early coz I thought the show would start at 7PM when actually it started at 8PM. Oops.

It was a lot of fun being with my high school classmates. We’ve actually grown closer in college, I think. I can really be myself with them coz they’re so cool. We’re like a family and we treat each other like a brother/sister. Love them to bits!

There were a lot of magicians and the show promised us two hours of non-stop magic amusement. However, Ian (brother of the organizer for Facedown Productions/my college classmate who sold me the tickets and got us good seats! Thanks again) told us that the magicians liked the crowd so much, they extended the show for another hour. It was sooo long I even fell asleep during a part of the ventriloquist act! People have been telling me the tickets were expensive, but after the show I really felt that it was all worth it and more!!

An unforgettable part of the show was when the mime magician called for an audience volunteer and picked a young boy. He seemed normal at first, but later we were starting to think he must have lost his soul/his autonomy or the will to do anything for himself.

He bent down, faced up, tilted his head, closed his eyes, faced back butt front upper body down, when the mime made him to. He did everything the mime made him do expressionless. 😐 That’s some extraordinarily obedient boy we saw there. The last part was the mime giving him that balloon sword, and taking it back as the boy reached his hand for it… over and over… expressionless! The audience would have probably made him a highlighted memory of the show (as I did).

Ultimately, the show ended amazingly with the champion magician disappearing by cloth only to leave a pair of moths. Honestly, my words are really inadequate to describe the whole show, how amazing the tricks were, mind-boggling as a handful of them were (and still are to me) and how all worth it it was.

I should just say YOU SHOULD HAVE BEEN THERE. That’s the bottom-line of everything.

A day before I left for Bangkok, Mikko and I decided to go out together. In the end, Lyonel and Lawrence (my classmate’s brothers) and her brother, Jeremiah, ended up going with us and we watched G-Force together! Mikko and I were loling at how we were supposed to watch a kiddy movie and having gone out together as an unlikely group (we were the eldest of them all and it probably looked like we were “baby-sitting” the boys).

But you know what? I actually enjoyed watching G-Force very much. Haha! I guess I’m still a really big fan of Disney movies, whatever genre they may be or platform they may use. So, thanks Lyonel. Don’t grow up too fast now~ Lawrence is sooo tall as you can see in the picture. I’m reminded of my lack of height. /sad

This was my first day using my new friend, Canon 10-22mm, and as you can see I love playing with the distortion!

Hello! This was shot at a really close range.

And here’s Mikko with her cute outfit. I gave her those socks last *insert occasion here*! I know you just reminded me, Mik, but I forgot already. I’m being an Anne again, I know…