*Rolls up sleeves*

bring my script to life! moooahahaha!

actually doing work can do wonders for the way one feels about... well, work. after an indignant email from my boss and a bit of going back and forth from project manager to boss to client, i'm back on the job i signed up for. i'm a writer again!

i can almost feel little kinks in my brain ("writing muscles"?) flexing, stretching and popping bit by bit. it's slow going at the moment, but it feels great. and pretty soon, i know i will be immersed (or is it obsessed?) with a show again.

the setup on the left is for a series of plugs charlie and i thought up. the interesting thing about it is that the storyboard and the shoot came before the actual lines, which i'm just about to write.

we shot the series last friday in this cavernous warehouse where dust and grease attack you the moment you set foot upon the premises. i went home at 230am with awful eyeluggage, dirty toenails and at least three new zits. but to see this all elaborate rigging, artistas literally bending over backwards to bring an idea -- our idea! -- to life was definitely worth it.

from a vague idea to impromptu instructions shouted by our director, vince ("you're lonely!" "you're suffering!" and my personal favorite, which came out of nowhere, "tell me your story!"), to the extremely goodlooking cast of six whose faces are seared into my little tapes, and now to me. i get to give them their stories; i get to savor the thrill of deciphering their expressions frame by frame, and of choosing words for each of them, and of imagining.

it's times like this when i really, really love my job.

more photos from the shoot, plus our cast pictorial two weeks ago, here. my favorite shots are the ones of i took of philippine cinema's iconic celia rodriguez. i love her!