Best Music Videos of 2007

“1, 2, 3, 4″ by Feist

“Bird on Your Grave” by Marissa Nadler

“Declare Independence” by Bjork

“Indian Giver” by Tourist

” Love Don’t Let Me Go” – David Guetta vs The Egg

“Knife” by Grizzly Bear

Paano Mahalin ang Katulad Mo

Di ko maikakaila ang pag-aalala
Na sa tuwi-tuwina’y dala-dala
Nangangamba, nangangamba
Na baka mapahamak ka

Dapat sarilinin ko na lang
Kayrami-rami mong pasan-pasan
Baka lalo ka pang mabibigatan

Itatago ko ang aking kaba
At ikukubli ang pangangamba
Ngunit sa dilim

Ay napapansin mo ang takot ko

Ang dinadaing koy para sa iyo
Ang unti-unting matutunan ko
Paano mahalin

Paano mahalin ang katulad mo

Di ko maikakaila ang pag-aalala
Ngunit di ba mas mahalaga
Ang dinggin ka, intindihin ka,
Samahan ka sa bawat pasya

Paano ba ako makakagaang
Paano ba ako makakatuwang
Paano kung ako ay nasasaktan

Itatago ko ang aking kaba
At ikukubli ang pangangamba
Ngunit sa dilim

Ay napapansin mo ang takot ko

Ang dinadaing koy para sa iyo
Ang unti-unting matutunan ko

Paano ba ako makakagaang
Paano ba ako makakatuwang

Paano mahalin ang katulad mo

from Lean Musical, sung by Cooky Chua

Taciturn

Perfect is boring. When you lived this life without experiencing pain, grief, sorrow, anger or anything that wandered through negativeness, life is boring. When life bombards you with pure bliss, when the world introduce you to nowhere but the idea of happiness and glee, life is never lived. And I’m even thinking that life of pure happiness is sorrow in itself because happiness without the concept of sorrow destroys the concept of happiness. Pure happiness is blank because there’s no point of comparison. How will you know that you’re happy when you haven’t experience sorrow at all? Or grief? or pain?

It pays to be masochist to live this life. Life is painful and embracing pain is the only way to survive. It pays to be intellectual but to be intellectual tends you to overanalyze things so much that thinking is in itself painful. Controlling emotions is much painful, especially in this life where people command you to have composure, to have control and when you have the ability to control, you are good because you know how to hide yourself. You have to be delighted if you experience pain because that makes you human and being human is all that you can embrace. Being human makes us, and our unpredictability is something that we can enjoy. Or at least, cherish.

To be human is accepting the complications and accepting that these complications will lead you to more complications. It’s a never ending cycle until we are planted in the soils of this world. Life is a very mysterious piece and accepting its mystery is mystery in itself. Choosing to live the pain is the greatest mystery of all.

November One

One drink
Will shrink you ’til you’re underground
And living down
But it’s not going to stop
‘Til you wise up

– Aimee Mann’s “Wise Up” from Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia

Internet Readings for Media Literacy

Media Awareness Network;  

Wikiversity: Media Literacy 

Wikipedia

VLCFF

More sites on media literacy

PCIJ

CCJ

Center for Media Literacy

New Blog, eh?

My faithful minions, here is my new blog and I made it as more profane as my previous domain. If you have noticed, I posted a lot of my entries from my blog. Talking about keeping in touch with memory lane. Oh, definitely I’ll miss that shit-colored website but I need something new.

Welcome people to the next phase of my demented world (Mad laughter in the background!).

Check this update!

This is weird .. my third post for the day! Well, this is for updates sake anyway.

Just want to tell you that I’ve put another list of names in my blogroll! Just Check the UP Film Friends section in the right side of this blog. I put it before the “Recommended Blogs” section but this doesn’t mean that my friends’ blogs aren’t worth recommending. I just want to make them a distinction, that’s it.

Then It Came to Me

Then it came to me that filmmaking is my path to nirvana. Screw the mind-draining preproduction, the energy-dissolving shooting phase and the eye-straining postprod, I love what I’m doing. And I’m happy leading my life this way. I might’ve spend five-digit amounts in exhange for a single three to seven-minute DVD output, but no money can equate the fulfillment of once abstract ideas born in my mind systematically tranforming into moving images immortalizing in front of my very eyes.

And where else but in film school would I be able to help on an enormous lists of production works via my classmates’ own projects! Thanks to Jesse (who has been present on almost everybody else’s projects, thanks for making me as your Assistant Director in your music video), Jedd, Gerry (I became his script supervisor), Jules, Tessa (Yours truly as her scriptwriter) for letting me help on your prods.

On Wednesday is the final judgment day for Film 112. This is my first time to see my creation in the big screen. I am nervously excited and I don’t know what’s at stake two days from now.

Oh my God, before, I am constantly reminding myself that there are at least four more semesters before I call it tops, before I walk up the stage again to receive another diploma. Now, I am excited with all the things that’s waiting for me at UP Film that I realized that grduation is too soon. Of course, I want to graduate in time but I don’t want to think about it now. I am currently enjoying the moments.

Dramachine

Thank Yous:

UP Film Institute for having the responsibility of nourishing my hunger for transforming my ideas to sensical moving pictures

Angelica Tolentino, Ann Margaret Bunyi and Bryan Jhonson Lim, for transforming the characters in my mind to real flesh, to human beings with hearts. I love you people!

Gerry Roxas for the house, the one big factor that made my interior shots very… beautiful. And thanks I hope I didn’t cause you any trouble from someone you-know-who

Achilles Gonzales for composing my musical score for free despite the fact we barely know each other and Maricor Reyes of the band Matilda for performing Achilles’s composition. You two are heaven’s sent. I promise to give justice on your hardworks.

Grace Perez of Himlayang Pilipino for unselfishly instructing me with the sign language, my heartwarming thanks. I can’t figure out how to repay your kindness. Who would have known that after my endless search for someone who’d translate my script to sign language and I’ll be meeting the one in my shooting location?

Himlayang Pilipino love the sunset, love the wind, i love everything … hopefully it’s not that soon but I like to be buried here someday, if I’d not be cremated … but either ways I’ll be happy

Cineforce yup, that dolly thing did a lot of magic in my short film

UP Asian Institute of Tourism for letting me use its widespaced, almost empty parking area which has been very suitable for my shoot

My Bosconian friends Johanne Thelmo for offering his hands to teach Angel the violin to the last minute, Francis Cuevas and Rolando Baluyot for cheering me up while I’m shooting in the comatosing heat

Stephen Valena and Jomar Mislang of iWebMasters who have equated ny passion for this project. Thanks for all the help

Jesse Baban, Charmaine Jimeno and Jed Medrano for lending your time to halp me in the shoot, despite the heat, despite the hungry conditions, you’re all there.

Shugo Praico for reading and criticizing my script and for lending a mind to improve my storytelling techniques. Your suggestions and teachings has made my passion stronger in writing my own films in the future.

RG, the best DOP in the world. I think we already are a tandem.

Mr. Lyle Sacris for pushing his class out of the limits. Who would ever believe that we have made four short films and one music video in one semester?

Mommy, Daddy, Ate, Kuya for letting me do this. I’ve been waiting… And thanks for the support

Kwerdas

My short film, “Kwerdas” – my final project for Film 112 class, will be shown at the UP Film Center (Cine Adarna) on April 4, 2007 (Wednesday), alongside with my other classmates’ works. There will be thirty 7-minute short films to be exhibited on that day, from 10 AM to 5 PM.

See you there guys!

“KWERDAS” (2007)

Written/Directed/Produced by: David Corpuz
Cast: Angelica Tolentino, Ann Margaret Bunyi, Bryan Jhonson Lim
Original Score Composition: Achilles Gonzales
Original Score Performed by: Maricor Reyes
Cinematography: Rosendo Concepcion
Film Editing: Rosendo Concepcion, David Corpuz
Casting: David Corpuz
Production Design: David Corpuz
Art Direction: Stephen Valena, Jomar Mislang
Set Decoration: Jesse Baban
Make-Up: Jed Medrano, Angelica Tolentino
Poster Design: Michelle Lao Baun