Sunday, July 31, 2011

Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa: Movie Review

In celebration of the 7th Cinemalaya 2011, our class were given a privileged to watch a Cinemalaya movie entry in the New Breed category. I choose the movie, Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa directed by Alvin Yapan.



The story covers the divergence between feminist and gay concerns, Dennis who is a college student at FEU aspires to get his Literature professor's attention, Karen. Then Dennis on the other hand finds himself enrolling to a dance class where Karen teaches, he asked for Marlon's helped, who is his classmate on Karen's Literature class. The movie features poetry of famous Filipino such as Ruth Elynia Mabanglo, Rebecca Anonuevo, Merlinda Bobis, Joi Barios, and Benilda Santos.
When Dennis strive to get Karen attention, he follows Karen at a dance studio where she teaches, then he later finds out that Marlon who is his classmate at Karen's Literature class also is a student at dance. Dennis asked Marlon to teach him what Karen teaches, but Marlon insist to help out at first but later on he accepted. 

Basically the story is a mixture of dance and literature, thought there are few love connection through out. The story of Marlon who seeks out to express how he feels for Dennis shows by dancing rather than verbally expressing it. They made the Humadapnon story in the last part meaningful it told not only the story but it told the story of sorrow of one's heart, the last part was my favorite out of all, the tear Dennis shed after their performance




By QUINLIN ANNE ROXAS :)

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Scenes from on and off the camera

It's every girls' dream to dress-up like a doll. They can wear beautiful clothes and put on a lot of make-up but not all dolls are cute and pretty. The film "The Doll Master" shows the possibility that dolls have a soul and can develop human emotions as time passes. They can experience happiness with their owners or feel anger at being outgrown and thrown away without a second thought...and eventually seek vengeance.


Our group choose this film because its not like your typical toy or doll-themed story. The plot is uniquely different.

The Doll Master
One of the challenges we faced during our brainstorming was our wardrobe. We wanted to look like dolls and do "doll-like" poses and still not stray from the film's plot. 


For this photoshoot we decided to wear our old clothes. It may not look like it but these costumes were our dresses when were kids!



We had a hard time in dressing up and even experienced some minor wardrobe malfunctions but we all managed to pull through and deliver a nice photoshoot.






Dolls are normally perceived to be sweet, pretty and cute and somehow it's strange that dolls can be portrayed as frightening and scary. Dressed up as dolls, we tried our best to put on scary faces. Although we struggled to create doll-like poses and positions, we managed to have different shots as dolls.


  
 
(From L-R: Charmaine, Quinlin, Annie and Tiffany)

The experience of having to portray different characters was very challenging and yet we had a LOT OF FUN! We were able to express ourselves through the photographs taken, allowed us to show our creative sides and gave us the chance to showcase our resourcefulness.

 

A big THANK YOU to Innah Andrea Corral and Eliza Luces for taking our pictures.