Everyone thinks this is just a field trip. Some thinks that
this is a awarding ceremony. And some a competition. Well I expected all of
this. And unlike them, me and Michael are the most excited person in class. We
like documentary stuffs. I like everything with relations to my course. Well in
fact that I haven’t had sleep thinking who will show and to what will happen.
Going to school at 4 o’clock when the set time is 5 is very much excited. At
first I didn’t know where AFP is but then when we got there. It all reminded me
that it’s the armed forces of the Philippines.
After registering and signing our attendance our prof told
us to go inside the theater. It’s not as big as I imagine it but its feels
great to be there. After 30mins of waiting it finally started. And from a
silent crowed miss Susan! Of GMA7 came out to speak. Everybody was amazed OMG
its susan! And then she finally talked and eventually she is the host for the
whole program and so as Mr.Mark Salazar. After having a prayer and singing our
national anthem they started the program.
For the first part they announce the top 3 qualifiers who
join the documentary competition. The top 3 documentary films are “Dapit hapon”
“Pusod” and “batang padyak”. These guys were great. Mostly
the ones who made Dapit hapon. Sadly our college didn’t make it in top 3 but I wish
they all played the videos of all the competitors. The speaker said that the
winner of the competition will be announce at the end of the program.
The first guest speaker is Ms. Marites Vatug. She tackles
about the use of ethics and the risk of investigative journalism. She even introduced her works. She is a writer
of books about laws and politics. After finishing her talk she entertained some
questions from the panel of judges and the student audience. This topic is
important you see we needed to be ethically good for our viewers. And at the
same time now the risk on doing a documentary. Being a filmer or a field
reporter is a dangerous job. After the question and answer they gave us coupon! For lunch! having finish
with lunch we came back to the hall. Then a dance number from la consolacion
Universtity and a song number from Ms. Dana Salvador of Urdaneta city
university. The singer was great she even had an encore.
The second speaker is Mr. Ed lingao. A multi media editor in
TV5! His lecture was tagalog but everyone was able to learn from this. He showed
us a documentary film about the ampatuan in Mindanao. After his talk he entertained some questions
from the judges and the students. The third speaker is Ms.Rowena paraan the
head of bayan mo patrol mo at ABS-CBN. Then after the talk and questions a
performance from different students.
