Thesis season
This time of the year, graduating film students are busy working on their theses, including me, of course. At the beginning of the semester, even during thesis proposal phase, I wasn’t too hyped up about it. I think I was even more excited when I helped out on a handful of thesis short films when I was a freshman, than when I’m actually doing it myself now that I’m a senior. I’ve shared something about this already, in this entry, where I said I sort of lost a passion in creating moving pictures.
Needless to say, right now, almost all of my film friends are busy with their own theses. Sigh. You know, there’s something uniquely engaging in film students’ theses. I’m not sure how thesis are exactly done in other courses, but I assume it’s largely an individual or a pair effort. In film, however, unless you’re doing an animation, an experimental of some sort or a written thesis, you will barely survive if you work alone or by pair, even. A graduating film student actually works on a number of theses, in varying degrees, for his fellow film friends. Well, unless you’re an absolute altruist, there’s this slight expectation that your film friends and other friends will help you out in your own thesis, as your production manager, your director of photography, your casting director, assistant director, production assistant, even as talent. Most of the time, all the work is pro bono, but it’s not the material return that’s important. Shooting film students’ thesis can be quite fun, aside from being stressful.
That’s just the shooting part. There’s still, also, the pre-production, post-production and the research and written thesis phase. Anyway, good luck, fellow film friends!
These pictures were taken last Wednesday. I was also trying out a relatively cheap / bottom-of-the-line zoom lens I acquired a few days beforehand. The pictures below are from an UP MCO members-applicants’ acquaintance gathering in Mass Comm last January 14. I wasn’t expecting myself to be able to attend because I was on an ocular trip in Manila, but turns out it was still going on when I got back to UP so I decided to drop by.
Tapos na ko sa Thesis ko nung third year pa. Kaso ngayon yung Transcultural Nursing Prof ko nagpapagawa ng malathesis na project proposal naidedefend din sa isang panel… magaadopt ako ng isang community at tutugunan koyung isang problema nun. Naisip ko yung community na lang na sinurvey ko nung second year. Tapos magpapatayo na na lang ako ng community CR dun para madali. Nakakatakot nga lang bumalik, baka habulin pa ko ng taga. hehe
Good luck sayo.
FYI, the plural of thesis is theses.
Hey Bikoy.
Don’t lose the passion for filmmaking.
We need better Pinoy films.
Good luck, man. Your thesis sure sounds like a lot of fun. Making videos or small productions even? I would love to do one of em someday.