I'm currently shooting my second movie.

Haha!

It's as if I'm the star but not really. Let's say I am again part of a movie of which I am kind of a star in the way the plot of the film goes. I'm the horror of the movie.  I'm not the lead girl to get chased at or ring her lungs out but i get to have a lot of shots that make the life of the star scary. I'm the multo. Again i'm wearing prosthetics, and it takes somebody like me to wear one for most of the shooting since basically I'm a 'just do it' girl. Hindi ako maarte and i'm not prone to rashes. This is the second time i get to be a multo(ghost) on film but i've been one on some TV shows. The pay is good and it puts food on the table. I get to have minimal acting and the most acting i can do is to shake myself as if crying.  You just won't see my face because i'm supposed to be a decaying bride of a cult leader with a slash on my neck. I'm not complaining really but i ask myself--- when can i see my face on film? My real face. It may take long i guess but i know i will. I'm not really the artistahin type with a small beautiful face fit for mass consumption but, in all honesty, i can act. And i know i'm friekin good at it. 


SOME THOUGHTS:

1. I wish the system of filmmaking here in the Philippines would change for the better. Crew and staff wouldn't be so overworked so they could still function properly and creatively. Kasi how can you create something when all of you are so dead tired and sleepy?! Crew and staff for films work for more than 24 hours!! I mean, we should get a life sometimes.  In the US, film people are paid per hour basis and that you have to work for 8 hours only. They rehearse every detail of the scene and reserve a day just for scenework and rehearsals so that come shooting day things will flow as smooth.

2. I wish everybody in the film crew knows what they are doing or have an idea of what should be done for the lights, the props, the set. I noticed that film crew are just ordered what to do; place this light here and then dim it or put this kind of prop there make it look chic etc. but i don't think they know the intent or purpose of doing what they were ordered to do. If they have an idea of what is to be done then they would be more professional and saves time.

3. I wish that someday there will be  a really big studio as big as a town so local films can recreate scenes inside the comforts of a studio. Like a real street, or a real town, or a real forest  and a real beach all inside a studio.

4. I wish for an actors union in the Philippines. A legit one.

5. I wish that drama/social pricking film genre would be produced more. Nowadays, most films are horror and that romantic comedy stuff all named after some cheesy song. I wish for more movies like Ligaya ang Itawag mo sa akin, Tuhog, Hihintayin Kita sa Langit, Scorpio Nights et al.

6. I wish that some people wouldn't be so yabang or feeling artsy just beacuse they're so into this indie-indie thing and they're filmmakers and so high art that they only hang out with people of their kind and project as if they're some Quentin Tarantino.  They exist and they're the type of people of who wouldn't be caught dead hanging out with common people who are not into arts! Come on you people!! Give yourselves a fuckin break!