October 2011 Online Meeting: Team Photos from 8,000 Miles Away

Another online meeting after the initial May 2011 presentation (presenting stories, progress reports, updates...) 

"Presenting My Story and Treatment from 8,000 Miles Away: So This is What Happened..."

"Presenting My Story and Treatment from 8,000 Miles Away: From the Other End of the Line... The Manila Perspective"

Another Presentation via Skype on the Way...

There will be a project meeting with the directors of the "Folktales Animated!" project with the Tuldok producers and CICT this Oct. 1 (Philippine time). I'm almost done with my presentation. Just have to add a few more images and things will be all set. Will be testing the online presentation with Mon soon. :)

Nostalgia... Past Meets Present

I'm trying to finish my script. So I thought it's nice to go back to the past and view this old work. This film was primarily shot in the same location as this new Bernardo Carpio film. Although not directly related to this new project, I thought of watching this trailer and the film itself to hopefully get rid of a creative writing block I'm currently encountering (sigh...). It's been a rough few months with all works and almost no play for me... :s

Also, in line with the ever-evolving means to keep things archived and readily accessible, and as people start encouraging me to create "Movie" pages for my films via Facebook, here's the link to that page (where you can also check out more pix and videos). Enjoy!

August 2011 Works and Developments

Our FB Group has been very busy for the past weeks. Lots of concept studies and developments. This FB platform is really very helpful with our production set-up. Plus, we don't need to always print out materials and the documents and photos always come in handy any time. :)

Here's one photo I found while doing some archiving of my old hard drive and finding some old pix along the way. This photo was an ocular we had in Montalban from many years back -- the time when we were about to shoot my film "Aninag" (Light's Play). So I readily took the uploaded photos in our FB group for references for our backgrounds.

Who would have thought that after a number of years, after shooting a live-action fantasy children's film, I'll be going back to this very location to shoot a new short?

It's actually an animated film about the Legend of Bernardo Carpio, but there are minimal live action parts in the script. So, see you soon again, Wawa Gorge! :)

Rough Works and Juggling Around... May 2011

I've been working on the sequence treatment for the film, finalizing it, actually. And at the same time, I've been juggling in between researches, preliminary sketches, concept artworks, character designs, and background designs. All those on the side since professional works are really piling up (need to pay the bills!!). So I've been pretty much working on my free times for this indie project. It's very much like how the rest of the team are working. Like the rest of other Tuldok projects, it's always been a "virtual office" set-up given our limited resources. That's not something to stop you from doing things anyway ;-)

So far, I've been working online with my previous production designer for most of my other live action films for initial ideas on the costumes. I am also regularly working with the project's concept artist/background and set artist. I've been giving some updates and asking for creative inputs from my editor and art director/storyboard artist as well.

I'm starting to pile up on lots of materials from documents to artworks. Looking good!!

It's really a work-in-progress... but it's definitely taking some shape now. Ayos. =D

Presenting My Story and Treatment from 8,000 Miles Away: From the Other End of the Line... The Manila Perspective

So here are the events that happened from the other end of the line... Thanks to Frank Aldana for sharing the photos! =D

Working out the kinks:

Finally! Connected!!

Pitching session!!

I'm definitely missing here... =p

Presenting My Story and Treatment from 8,000 Miles Away: So This is What Happened...

After a couple of Internet issues, iChat and YM blocked by the office network in Manila, troubleshooting, iChat started working but screen sharing disabled! Thinking fast... Screen sharing via Skype worked! Took a few good minutes. Well worth the wait, at least I was able to present on my own and not with the last option of having video conference then Mon is gonna click the Keynote presentation for me from there -- as I look on the video for the cue for the next slide to show.

Took a few shots. Here they are: