The Technical Side of Filmmaking...

[Blongkoy]

lawm na kaayo na ang dimesnions of filmaking da!

pero agree ko ni angryliar, we must let our work speak for ourselves gyud,

now where is that Blongkoy person? kadto sweto man gyud to sa filmaking.

I have been out of town for work and now back briefly for a weekend breather.

Anyway, I am only "sweto" in the sense that I study every aspect of the production prior to actually doing it:

1. I had all my previous works storyboarded. This would tell me what I need to be doing e.g. multiple greens, if required.

2. Then I walked through the location with the crew to validate the storyboard.

3. I also did (always) month-long rehearsals for each production.

4. In actual work, I (always) tucked in my arsenal of references the reliable "Cinematographers' Manual" of the American Society of Cinematographers.

5. I only bought licensed plug-ins for the detailed documentation that go with them. Then I included those documentation in my portable reference library. Plus they give me instant internet access to their technical support system. In Bryce, for example, there is no amount of second-guessing can ever give me the correct use of this software.

6. Plus I have references in the manuals and books written by, among others, Gordon Willis, Haskell Wexler, etc.

7. I shoot the material at hand with editing in my mind. So the usual one-camera-system in my work is very acceptable to effect a multi-camera-system.

I come from the University of Hard Knocks insofar as filmmaking is concerned. My journey in filmmaking started in 1972 --- from 8mm to super 8mm to 16mm to 35mm and now to digital using mpeg2 micro drives --- cranking out 48 titles in documentary and 5 titles in narrative features todate and still working. Right now, I am on assignment by a medical educator to do physiology, anatomy and autopsy educational films and yet by another doctor to do pre-production work on the possible co-production effort on "Tupas".

In Mindanao, unless I am corrected, I recognize only 3 legitimate groups engaged in filmmaking:

1. There is Interim Media Production Center in Ozamiz City. This is run by an Otis-awardee for best direction Neil Frazer. My association with this Australian filmmaker dates back in 1978 when he was director of photography for my "Ulan sa Udtong Tutok." Then the following years until 1983, I was his editor for his "Vanishing Earth", "Earth Music", and the thought provoking "Negros Nine".

2. Another film outfit is based in Davao City and run by Boy Ortonio (my classmate for many years in college and with whom I shared many film menus on the dining table of our boarding school in Baguio City). He is into MTVs and videoke productions.

3. Then there is the young nephew of Hashim Salamat of the Mindanao Independence Liberation Front working from out of Lanao. For his political affiliation with MILF, I chose not mention his name here. But he is a filmmaker to reckon with.

The rest are just hobbyists. The range from serious hobbyists to plain pretenders, with nothing more to show than internet sourced documents.

My start on this thread.

[MrBiddle]

bitaw onsa man nang upconversion og downconversion?

wa ko kasabot ana?

[koto]

koto,

unsay trabaho nimo. kay ganahan jud ko makahibaw sa sekreto sa mga tawo nga makapalit og mga laysho nga camera.

mangawat ba ka? or dentista imong Uncle?

WHAT'S THE SECRET into getting your hands on these expensive equipments? hehehe

*****a sad anang mangawat oi
dentista?.... gamay anag sweldo
ako kwarta gikan:
networking , buy/sell sa istorya heheee.. og freelance artist kana ra...
og kung dako naa ako 30,000sq lang puno marijuana sa bukid, harvest ko baligya sa HK, thailand, hawaii, Guam & sometimes US & Europe kung maayo lang pag ka PACK og trnsport
pero kini nga CAM hatag lang sa ako mysterioso relatives sa south africa

bitaw onsa man nang upconversion og downconversion?

wa ko kasabot ana?

either u do this: go to USC-main library and do some research
search in www.google.com or www.dictionary.com
search in incarta 2005
or if its in tech. fim stuff language PM master bolongkoy since he is study & graduate

University of Hard Knocks insofar as filmmaking.

anybody here got any idea sa tuition in International Academy Film & Television at lapu-lapu

[diem]

hey koto

last time i attended classes there at IAFTV, class tuition ranged from 5800 pesos up to 10800 pesos, depending the class you're taking. Acting classes, digital photography iyung mga 6600 pesos while directing, cinematography, editing iyung mga 10800 pesos.

You can procure a list of classes and their tuition from the IAFTV, F. Ramos Street... or request one from their website at www.study-film.com

[vanceloma]

right.

I also learned filmaking guerilla style....sa Mcdonalds, kadtong ga part-time pa ko. inig break, mag share mig filmaking techniques ni Grimace.

seriously,
you dont need IAFT to learn filmaking.
wait let me refresh that kay ma fire nya akong amigo.
study mo dinha. wala silay kwarta waaahhh!!!!

this september, they're gonna start na daw the 1 -year course kuno, with diploma ug graduation songs (composed by John Williams )

@Koto,
friends ta beh......barrow ko camera....

[MrBiddle]

this september, they're gonna start na daw the 1 -year course kuno, with diploma ug graduation songs (composed by John Williams )

I-recycle ang SUMMON THE HEROES katong gitukar sa Atlanta Olympics when the pioneers of the 1 year course graduate in July.

[koto]

im planning to study cguro either Visual FX, or any special FX, production and editing
nya if naa silay 3d like MAYA nya 3D StudioMax or Cinema 4D
budget nako 100k cigo kaha ni ? apil na boarding for 6month's

vanceloma: wa pa ning abot basin either last week of july or last week september or 1st week of December, agad lang ko kinsa mu uli gikan gawas; nya ako pa rent cguro like 3-5k per 12hrs use way labot mga additional accesories

[MrBiddle]

koto,

ikaw ba si Christian Januar kinsa ka? hehe.

Ako si Pao2.

[Blongkoy]

this september, they're gonna start na daw the 1 -year course kuno, with diploma ug graduation songs (composed by John Williams )

I-recycle ang SUMMON THE HEROES katong gitukar sa Atlanta Olympics when the pioneers of the 1 year course graduate in July.

With several friends coming from Cebu's indie community, I sat down with IAFT people at O'Georg Banilad sometime ago when they conducted focus group discussion on their plan to set up a training facility on filmmaking.

I threw in my two-cents worth saying that I see no viability in a training set up in an environment where there is no film industry to speak of; I suggested to set up a full production effort and throw in all the training needs and hands into this effort. Of course, nobody was listening.

An IAFT official, I used to call him JKawa, told me that they are eyeing the 70 per cent unadmitted applicants of a New York film school, I presumed to be New York Film Academy. My guess at that time was that this 70 per cent would not come to Cebu to train: New York City is the largest outdoor location in the film world; even the NYPD and NYFDhave film units; in New York Film Academy, their guest lecturers are Steven Spielberg, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Martin Scorcese, MrBiddle, etc. A training facility in Cebu would not obtain this atmosphere --- so the 70 per cent would not come.

I maintain here that IAFT venture into full film production and use this production to train their trainees plus breath new life into a dead industry.

[Blongkoy]

[quote="koto"][quote="MrBiddle"]
or if its in tech. fim stuff language PM master bolongkoy since he is study & graduate

University of Hard Knocks insofar as filmmaking.

I am proud of the University of Hard Knocks. It gave me ample time color-correcting and timing negatives while they are on spindle. And I have been reviewed by Mr. Nestor U. Torre at the Philippine Daily Inquirer (paging Rudy Diez of National Broadcasting Network for that August date and year), archived by University of the Philippines Film Center, written about in many publications including Sun Star Weekend here, and annotated by film scholar Nick Deocampo in Mowelfund's "Lost Cinema" as leading the "70s indie pack."

Producers included the National Commission for Cultures and the Arts (NCCA) for the 5-episode "Poetry and Space," Petroglyph Rock Productions/LA of filmmaker Nicholas Bowness for "PNG Chieftain Commercial" for Apple Computers during the Superball of 1990 and the Latin American Concert Tour of Jerry Garcia (of the Living Dead band), and World Bank Small Grants Program/Ford Foundation for the documentation of their political experiment somewhere called Sustainable Integrated Area Development. Also developed with Andrew Durbin and WRichardson for the IAFT the editing module called "Si Malakas at Maganda" --- for editing trainees to storify and correct.

That, indeed, is what graduates of University of Hard Knocks can do.