A Day Late and a Dollar Short Movie Reflection

            Family is the basic unit of society. Our family is the most important treasure given by God. Family can also be our weakness as what the movie a Day Late and A Dollar Short depicts. It is a family relationship that is based on reality. So as a viewer, I am very much touched on how the main character (Viola) manages her family. Challenges may push us to be weaker and weaker, challenges may pull us down but as long as we stay optimistic amidst of the problems and hindrances we will absolutely survive. It’s hard pretending to be okay especially to family matters. It seems that our whole being will be affected, our emotions, physical and also affects our mentality.

            How can we stay positive in amidst of these problems? Let’s just close our eyes and pray to God that everything would become okay. I have experienced a lot when it comes to family. I had lost my father, we’ve go through nothing but amidst of these is a smile on my face because I know that life is getting tougher and tougher day by day and I/ we have to be strong day by day. In my case, my family is my life. I’m striving hard for them to give them a brighter future. They are one of my everything. There are really instances that we have a disagreement with our family but one thing is for sure, after the rain, there is that sunshine that gives light to a new beginning. Life has many things to offer. Sadness, happiness, experiences, name everything. That is life. As I was watching the movie there were questions built in my mind. What is my purpose living in this world? Am I just a nobody? Or I have a mission that should be fulfilled? I’m sick of questioning about life because at the end of the day I know that these questions will remain as questions. Questions that keeps on bothering me day by day. Yes, life is cruel but it also offered us the happiness that gives us the satisfaction that we long.

            My family is my life. Because of my family, I could feel the essence of life. Let’s take a review to the main character, she knew that if she will be attacked by asthma, she will die. But before she would leave the world, she has her mission. It is again to reunite her family. She wanted that when she dies, everybody is in good terms and everyone is in good condition. By this summary alone, it has been showed that family couldn’t be replaced by anything. Family is where our lives evolve.

BEE-II

                                                                                                            -JULIET  A. ORIGENES

Basta uyyyy :'(

I loved him once, I loved him twice, I loved him thrice. I moved on as I loved him many times. What if I'll be cursed by my own feelings? Can I throw a revenge ? There's this guy whom I knew. He's perfect I guess. Hahaha He courted me once and I really don't know how to react. How pathetic I am to ignore him? Life again </3 Damnly sucks! It was yesterday ( June 7,2016 PS. What's really with seven ugh! This number seems so VALUABLE<3 ) This is the very moment that we had our closure. We  never had an "us" but yes we had our closure just what had happened yesterday with our instructor. Hmmmmm I don't know what to react. If I would be happy? Disappointed, hurt or what. Because he said that he don't like me anymore and that his feelings for me had gone.  I also said that my feelings were gone too. So that's what happened. We ended it up knowing that we don't have feelings for each other. There's that feeling that I couldn't express. A wound I guess. I had a question to myself. Hmmmm if my feelings were gone, why am I hurt? Am I being selfish? I don't know. I really don't know. I'm being OA again, goodbye Philippines! HAHA

Every Second of Every Thing

Experience is our best mentor. It is a guiding light that enlightens our whole being to be a better one. It gives a strong bond and builds rapport to the persons involve and most importantly, our experiences give color to our visions in life.  Who would have thought that everything would end to be such a success? Let’s take a flashback. Weeks before, I was so busy, we were so busy. The first thing we did was making our props. We spent many hours in doing such. We then took our shootings every places that suits the theme of the scene. We have to prepare our costumes so that we would look better in the camera and that we could portray exactly the character as exact as possible as it should be. We didn’t expect challenges and hindrances in making our video. We thought that it just a simple thing to that could be done easily but what we expected is the exact reverse for every scene and setting that we are into has it’s hidden meaning. Meanings that are beyond compare. Meanings that turned us into a person that we didn’t expect. 

We didn’t notice that day by day we are getting mature. We are able think better for we’ve done brainstorming. I ask ideas from my group mates on what things should we do and so glad that each one of us offered their cooperation. Our main journey starts at Barangay 5, Talakag, Bukidnon in the Yellow House, White House and in the forest. We had also that setting in the Municipal Hall. And our last stop is at Roan Beach Resort. Here, unexpected moments takes place. We to stable our minds that we are far from home.

 We have to take care of ourselves and we have to be responsible of our actions. Cooperation with one another took over. We thought that we won’t make it because the first thing that make us weak is the boat. We have a hard time just to rent a boat used in our movie because our time using the boat is limited. We have to maximize our time to the best of our ability. As what we’ve expected we failed our expectations that we would finish the shootings for one day. In fact, it extended to one day because every scene took several hours to finish. The next morning, we woke up early to take those scenes that we weren’t able to perform the day before gladly, we finished our shooting at the beach on that morning. We decided to go home. We then had a stop over at Macahambus cave for our last shooting. We were so enjoyed. We were so happy that time. 

Every second of every thing with my group mates seems so irreplaceable. It is an irreplaceable treasure that isn’t exchangeable by a ton of gold or any other treasures. We’re done with our shooting but the pressure had just started. The video making had just started. We still have to give our time and efforts in making such. The video making is so critical, we have to have patience especially in trimming and cutting the videos. The insertion of the sound effects is the hardest part for me because we have to repeat playing the video to know that the sound effects suits the movie setting. We must have the timing because if the timing of the sound effects goes wrong it will affect the whole production of the movie.

There are times that we’re about to give up. We already have lost that we will finish the movie but I’m so thankful that I have my group mates that are very optimistic. We strive the hardest effort in making such movie productions. With all those hindrances we’ve shared to each other, at last we’ve done editing the video, but sad to say there were sound effects and narration that weren’t inserted because some of our file corrupted. I want to cry because it’s very hard for our part that in just one glance some of our files had corrupted that made our  efforts useless. Gladly, we thought of a remedy until we finished our movie with all our hearts and our souls!