CREATIVE MINDS OF FILIPINOS

GENALLI GRACE C. FRANCISCO ABMCB4A

CREATIVE MINDS OF FILIPINOS

We haven’t answered question #11 because we thought that it’s a part of the question in this reflection paper.

But if I’m going to answer it, I prefer films over rock music; and when it comes to films, I like more of the romantic-themed movies especially those films written by Nicholas Sparks.

Just like in Philippine TV, I see programs with romantic themes like in the movies that I prefer or choose to watch.

Examples are, the remake of “Mula Sa Puso,” the comeback of the prodigal son, Richard Gomez, who starred in “Walang Hanggan” and the likes.

But of course, I don’t like to be bias.

Action movies are now much-awaited by its fans. Especially with the comeback of “Asiong Salonga: The Kingpin Story” shown last Metro Manila Film Festival.

Another theme seen both in television and film is the hard work of a mother for her children. A good example of this in the film industry is “A Mother’s Story” and in television is an episode I have watched last night in Maalala Mo Kaya (MMK); both of which are Pokwang’s lead role.

I would also like to point out films and programs that showcases beautiful love stories that end up having third parties; mistresses to be exact. On film, we have my favorite (because of the lines of the actors in the film, “No Other Woman,” starred of course by Anne Curtis as the other woman of Derek Ramsay. And in television, I think that a concrete example is “Ikaw Lang Ang Mamahalin” in GMA starred by Michelle Madrigal as the mistress.

Another theme that I have put to mind is the “best friends turned to lovers” theme. An example of this would be the movie of Kim Chiu and Gerald Anderson entitled, “Paano Na Kaya?”, and Julia Montez with Coco Martin in ABS-CBN’s Primetime Bida, “Walang Hanggan.”

The themes that I have cited are just a few of the themes that are showcased in films and programs at present time.

But that’s exactly the point! These are only few and there are a lot more. It just shows how creative and talented Filipinos are! J

FINALS!

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

MARCH 03 (Saturday)

March 03- Final Meeting. Reading Circles & Final Group Case Reports (This is 40 Points of your FINAL CP!), Review Quiz

 

MARCH 10 (Saturday)

FINAL EXAM

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FINAL PAPER DUE (30 points)
SELF-REFLECTIVE ESSAY
What do you consider the most important thing you
learned in MC 110? Why do you think this is the most
important? Be specific in the topics you found
interesting and state why. Relate these with your
career plans or plans for further study.

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MARCH 10.

MANILA, Philippines - After a wave of online outrage over its March 2012 cover, men's magazine FHM has announced its recall, citing sensitivity.

In a statement released today, the Summit Media publication responded to criticisms of racism by saying its editorial board had reexamined the controversial cover.

A photo of the cover was uploaded to the magazine's Facebook page last Saturday, February 25, showing a fair-skinned Bela Padilla in a bright pink bikini standing against a background of 5 black women in dark bikinis.

The copy beneath the photo reads "Bela Padilla: Stepping out of the shadows."

After "a slew of comments on the supposed 'racism' of the cover image and cover line flooded the magazine page," FHM announced the cover
will not be available in print.

It is not yet confirmed if this is the first time the magazine has issued a recall, although Summit said the issue is yet to be printed in full.

The magazine's editor-in-chief Alan Madrilejos could not be reached for comment.

"When FHM hits the stands in March it will have a different cover. We deem this to be the most prudent move in the light of the confusion over the previous cover execution."

The magazine is the country's top-selling men's magazine.

Below is the FHM statement in full.

"On Saturday, February 25, we uploaded the March issue with Bela Padilla on the cover on our Facebook page. Just hours later, a slew of
comments on the supposed "racism" of the cover image and cover line flooded the magazine page, prompting the editorial team to re-examine
the cover so that we could put into context its execution and assuage the concerns of our readers and non-readers as well who've weighed in
on the issue.

"We took all the points into consideration and have decided to take the side of sensitivity.

"When FHM hits the stands in March it will have a different cover. We deem this to be the most prudent move in the light of the confusion
over the previous cover execution.

"We apologize and thank those who have raised their points. We apologize to Bela Padilla for any distress this may have caused her.
In our pursuit to come up with edgier covers, we will strive to be more sensitive next time."

Credits to: http://www.rappler.com/entertainment/1848-fhm-recalls-bela-padilla-issue

>>well, it's a good thing people notice a possible racial issue on this cover. it will be a bigger issue if this isn't reviewed soon.

This essay is from the PBS series "American Photography: A Century of Images" looks at the ethical ramifications of digital manipulation -- "which is as old as photography itself." At the PBS Web site, the essay on Digital Truthoutlines the problems associated with the "slippery slope" we risk sliding down when digital enhancement becomes the accepted norm. (Their adaptation of the famous "assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald" photo into "Oswald/Ruby as a Rock Band" is a fascinating example of digital manipulation. Show students the altered photo first, and ask them if they can identify the people shown in this different context.)-----http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teachable_moments/photo_truth.cfm

"Digital Truth"

It is true that The National Geographic moved two of the Egyptian pyramids closer together on a cover, to fit the vertical format. And, yes, the cover photo on A Day in the Life of America was manipulated to move the cowboy closer to the moon, again to fit the format.

Does that mean photographic truth is at an end? Who says it ever existed? Photographs have always been manipulated. Usually the results have not been big whopper lies, pictures that claimed something happened when it didn't, but less serious sins, touch-ups in ads and portraits. The tabloids have always used a bag of photographic tricks. In early examples, as when cameras were barred from courtrooms, scenes were staged and images created through cutting and pasting to show what happened. The tabloids still use photographic trickery to turn the fantastic into the supposedly realistic, showing Actor A with Actress B when they never met, or Elvis alive and well in Country C (or on the moon). With the tabloids "Believe it or not" can mean mainly "not"; seeing is not necessarily believing.

When will digital manipulation become a serious problem? We'll see. So far, no digitally manipulated image has provided the occasion for a major crisis in the truth-versus-falsehood department. It may happen tomorrow, or it may never happen as imagined, with someone creating a fake of something important and getting away with it at first, affecting public opinion.

Photography has always been awarded a special status for truthfully recording the world. But that doesn't mean all photographs, all the time. Digital imaging may pose a serious challenge to traditional photographic technology — film, cameras, paper. And it may eventually affect how people view the images they see in newspapers and magazines, or even in family albums. Right now it looks as if the digital effect on photography is more on transmission and handling than on image-creation. There was always darkroom trickery — retouching, double-exposure. It's just that such effects are easier to produce now, and less easy to detect.

The problem is that with digital manipulation of photographic images so simple, a slippery slope is created where minor cleaning up of an image can easily lead to major changes. It is not easy to identify a point where truth is lost and the picture enters the realm of fiction. In a world of images showing the most fantastic, imaginary situations in the most realistic, convincing fashion — think of science-fiction films, or the more exotic kinds of still advertising images — the balance may be shifting between traditional straightforward photographs and more spectacular kinds of images made through digital manipulation. It is possible that audience tastes and our sense of an image's credibility are shifting as well: do we still draw sharp lines between news photographs and the other pictures we see in newspapers and magazines?

There is one other potential problem with digital imagemaking. In the civil trial for the murder of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, O.J. Simpson cried "fake" when a photo turned up showing him wearing Bruno Magli shoes, the kind responsible for bloody footprints at the crime scene. The contact sheet (apparently) was convincing evidence and proved him wrong. That may be hard proof to come by in the future, when photos on digital cameras leave no tracks, as it were, and certainly no negative. In the past the negative was the key physical record of the photographic act and a guarantee of sorts for photographic truth.

Our sense of the truth to be found in images may be changing because of digital manipulation. But we still are waiting for our first great test case of digital truth, that is, digital lying.

Photographer unknown.Composograph of Alice Rhinelander in court, 1925.


In 1991 a photograph surfaced that supposedly showed three American Vietnam pilots alive after 20 years in captivity. Then the Pentagon found a 1923 photograph of three Soviet farmers that exposed the image manipulation.


George Mahlberg.Oswald/Ruby as a Rock Band, 1996. Adaption by George E. Mahlberg of original photograph by Bob Jackson, 1963.

http://homepage.mac.com/gapodaca/digital/digital.html

Greg's Digital Retouching Portfolio offers a sample image gallery where you can use your mouse to roll over images and display the original scan before it was retouched.

Broadcasting: Good Manners and Right Conduct

Philippine media is the most accessible information distributor in the country. Not every person has the privilege to use the internet while a television is the most common source of what is happening around the globe. Especially the current events in the country that everyone needs to know. So it is important for the media practitioners to follow certain standards, rules and regulations that will respect the rights of the masses.

                

            KBP or Kapisanan ng mga Brodkaster ng Pilipinas, is the forerunner in implementing the rules and regulations to be followed by the different networks for a more professional and ethical broadcasting practices in the Philippines. KBP also puts strict responsibility on what should or should not be broadcasted in different media practices.

            Based on their “Broadcast Code of the Philippines 2007”:

Part I: Program Standards, Article 1: News and Public Affairs, Sec. 3: Fairness and Objectivity,  

                                “3.a. News reports shall be fair, factual, and objective. (G)

                                3.b. Receiving bribes, gifts, privileges or any

                                Consideration to favor one side of a story, stop a

                                story from airing , or put any person in either bad or

                                favorable light is prohibited. (G)          

     

                                3.c. Side comments expressing personal opinions while

                                a news item is being reported or delivered are

                                prohibited to prevent the listener from mistaking

                                opinion for news. (S)

                                3.d. When presented as part of a news program,

                                editorials or commentaries must be identified as

                                such and presented as distinct from news

                                reports. (S)”¹

On what I gathered from the interview of Ms. Pinky Webb with Mr. Rene Saguisag on ANC,² there are times where she shows unbalanced interest on the issue on hand, which is Saguisag’s opinion on Chief Justice Renato Corona’s impeachment trial. There were times in the interview where she puts Mr. Saguisag on hostile grounds. For example, her line of questioning about the flag raising ceremony in the Supreme Court plus the Mass after, where nine justices were present is somehow biased in tone. She seems to denote that the presence of those justices was a misconduct and Saguisag must raise a contradiction or criticism about it.  Another one is where she asked Saguisag “…hindi ba magulo yun?” after where she asked about the prosecution’s plans on bringing the motions dumped by the Senate up to the Supreme Court. Again she wants Saguisag to go to a predetermined answer hence the question “…hindi ba magulo yun?”. Lastly, she suggested that the impeachment is either an attack to Corona or the judiciary system of the Philippines, Saguisag answered her by saying that she should not confuse the people about attacking Corona or the judiciary system because the truth is it is an attack to the case and misconduct allegedly committed by Corona.

             News and Public Affairs is about the people not the reputation of the station. If you are a station and you are worried of what you can and cannot ask in TV because it might hamper your reputation then you are not a fair station. You are also not objective. Why? It is because the objective of being in the industry of News and Public Affairs is to serve the people, not to popularize the station. News and Public Affairs is a public service, not a popularity contest.

References:

¹http://www.kbp.org.ph/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/Broadcast%20Code%20of%202007.pdf

² http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIl5w5zacc&list=UUE2606prvXQc_noEqKxVJXA&index=6&feature=plpp_video

When is the appropriate and right time to teach Media Ethics? First, Second, Third or Fourth Year?

When is the appropriate and right time to teach Media Ethics? First, Second, Third or Fourth Year?
This question suddenly comes to my mind when I saw the list of major subjects that I took-up for the previous years? Introduction to Communication, Theater Arts, Educational Technology, these are few of the subjects that we took up during our early years in this program, it seems that these are basic subjects to our course, but is Media Ethics not a basic one?
Based on your personal perception when is the right and appropriate time to teach Media Ethics to the future media practitioners? Find time to think about this.

ayy tignan nyo to naalala ko yung film viewing natin

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GROUP PROJECT Announcement and Guidelines

Group Topics: 
Group 1 - Corazon De Jesus, San Juan Demolition Coverage
Group 2 - Typhoon Sendong Coverage
Group 3 - Feast of the Black Nazarene 2012 Coverage
Group 4- Ramgen & Janelle Coverage
Group 5- Filipino Drug Mule Executed in China
Group 6- CJ Corona's Case


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SUBMIT IN PRINTED FORM ON OR BEFORE FEBRUARY 21, 4 PM ONLY

OUTLINE

TITLE PAGE

I. OVERVIEW (1 page)

II. SIGNIFICANCE (1 page)

Why did you choose this story?

III. PRINT/ ONLINE

·      You may focus on comparing two articles from two newspapers or news websites. Use quotes from these articles to support your claims.

·      You may differentiate examples of published photos

IV. RADIO

-       You may use quotes from radio commentary; indicate the date

-       Interviews

-       You may refer to KBP Standards

V. TV

-       You may focus on comparing coverage of two news channels/networks

-       You may use video grabs

-       You may refer to KBP Standards

VI. CONCLUSION

      - You may compare the scope of coverage in print/online, tv and radio. 

      - You may refer to Company Policies/Guidelines or the Journalist's Code of Ethics to support your assessment.

VII. BIBLIOGRAPHY

USEFUL TOOL:  Knight Cite, http://www.calvin.edu/library/knightcite/

PEER EVALUATION: 

Please assign your group leader. 

Everybody is required to grade his/her groupmates with 1-5 (5 as the highest) depending on each others' contribution to the project. Submit individually through email after submitting your paper.

Beauty in Advertising

Do you agree that what you always see in the television always tells the truth? Read this, I think this column has a relation from what we've watched last Saturday. Advertising, Is it true or just a false beauty?

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/08/08/swinson.airbrushing.ads/index.html