Infographics narration

 

Do you still remember your childhood days wherein computers, gadgets and internet were still not a great importance in our life? I still do remember those days. Playing tumba lata, patintero and other filipino games during those times. Not only that, family time every dinner is really one thing that I really look forward in to. It's really the time were I hear and share a lot of stories with my family. The part were my father share me some stories about his life, about stories in his community during his days and others stuff. Those were the memories during my childhood. But in the present generation, the youths have come to another way of building up memories during their childhood. As what in the narration says, "Mas pamilyar d0in ang mga bata sa mga kwentong dayuhan at ang mga kwentong local ay unti-unting nakakalimutan. Nawawala ang kahalagahan ng interaksyon at kwentuhan." That is what presently is happening with the youths of this present generation. The culture of the filipino's starts to change in to a different level. So we have presented "Project Banig Zamboanga" to save and preserve the old yet very Filipino culture. We have come up with an infographics that we'll allow us to share to the people about our move in making the youths of this generation be more creative and widen their imaginations in creating stories especially stories of our own. As of the moment, we have made several characters and vectors for this video. Some of the characters included were Maria Makiling and some popular pinoy characters.

Here is a sample screen shot of our project:

Foley

The film "New Years Eve" staring Michelle Pfeiffer, Zac efron and others was our personal choice in creating a foley. This was really a fun and at the same time challenging experience for us because it was our first time to do a foley. I've been to music editing and adding sound effects but I've never tried recording your own sound effects that should match to the object that is presented in the film. I was assigned as one of the recorders for recording the sound effects.

We have assigned voice artist for each character that is present in the scene. Ezra Flores was assigned as Ingrid Withers(Michelle Pfeiffer), Roberto Oquias was Jonathan Cox(John Lithgow). Victor Ian as Ava(Sofia Vergara) and Hannah Jane Torres as Laura(Katherine Heighl).

The challenging part in doing this foley is how immitate the voices of the each character. It was really hard because you need to express your words like you are the person in the movie so you could immitate the voice properly and at the same time the timing for every word that the character says. We have made several drafts just to get the right timing and proper expressing of the voice. But the recording of the sound effects was better for me. Most of the sound effects were only recorded only ones. The eng that was been thrown to the wall was the hardest for me. I need to keep the timing and the right impact sound because I didn't want to waste an egg. Luckily, we have recorded it only ones. I was also disturbed with the noise or the hissing sound in the recording. I did not get the chance to remove the noise of the voice since it was recorded  directly to the software. We did not have much time to edit it one by one. But overall, I was really enjoying this experience. It was so much fun to do a foley and I'm looking forward to make another one. Ofcourse, I'd like to work with better equipments and materials on my hand.

Balats Productions - Ang Lihim(An Audio Drama)

Cast:
Ezra Flores - Ida and "kambal"
Anne Clarisse Fajardo - Portia
Hannah Jane Torres - Sally
Raphael Arquiza - Chimo
Kelvin Jay A. Olimba - Alfred
Roberto Oquias  - Rudolfo
Victor Ian Covarrubias - "Lola" and the british

Written by:

Hannah Jane Torres
Ann Clarisse Fajardo
Ezra Flores
Victor Ian Covarrubias

Directed and Edited by:
Kelvin Jay A. Olimba


"Ang Lihim" is an audio drama made by some group of students in Ateneo de Zamboanga University. It is a filipino inspired audio drama and it set in the modern world. Ida is the main cast of the story and is characterized as a demure woman. But then, Portia(ex-girlfriend of Rodolfo) along with her friends Sally and Chimo keeps on seeing her dancing in the club and flirting with some other boys in public. What could be the secret that Ida is hiding?

The story starts when Portia and her friends went into a club to have some quality time. Then surprisingly, Rodolfo's current girlfriend is also there dancing and partying. Ida is supposed to be demure and a filipino woman. Those were the qualities that Rodolfo liked her the most. Portia told Rodolfo about this but Rodolfo was hesistant to believe even though Portia already showed her some proofs. Rodolfo was not really convinced until one day, he already witnessed himself of what the girl of his life's other identity. Out of rage, he confronted her and she'd claim that she doesn't know Rudolfo. It broke Rudolfo's heart. He went to another bar and get himself drunk. He was too drunk that he'd go to Ida's placce and confront her. Ida was there and Ida claimed she stayed the whole day and night taking care of her sicked grand mother. But then again, Rudolfo is never really convinced since he has seen it with his two naked eyes and confronted her. Ida would still deny it and then her grandmother heard the commotion that is going on outside. She settled the kids and invited them to get inside for she has something very important story to share. It was that the perfect time to unveil the secret that she has been keeping ever since Ida was born. Ida had a twin sister whom her mother has sold due to poverty. The woman that they've been seeing lurking who is totally the opposite of Ida is her long lost twin sister. In the end, Rudolfo is guilty and ask for forgiveness from Ida.