Posts Tagged ‘robbie tan’

After the storm part2

Friday, April 3rd, 2009
by ana agabin

Here I am, resolved to never again make another indie film in my life.

As I mull over the events of the recent shoot, I get a text asking me to call Robbie Tan, head of the Cinemalaya monitoring committee.

“Robbie, I’m not done with shooting. I scheduled eight shooting days. I shot for ten days, I still didn’t finish it.”

Robbie assures me that it’s perfectly normal and encourages me to keep it up. I explain that I didn’t want the quality to suffer just because I’m pressed for time or money. He says that that’s the way it should be.

They expect a rough edit soon. I reply that I’d get to it.

By golly, I’ll get to it… and remember the pains we went through to shoot it? (more…)

Test party

Saturday, February 28th, 2009

I got feedback yesterday from Robbie Tan regarding our test shoot. He’s the head of the monitoring committee for Cinemalaya and the one who’s really nakatutok on what the 10 filmmakers are up to. He said that the result of the shoot was generally good. He nonetheless gave me a few comments and suggestions on how to improve. The main gist of it was to have a lot of coverage so that we would have enough footage to choose from during editing.

I have to admit, I initially thought the test shoot was a huge hassle. Especially since I found out about it only this February, when I was already planning a (more…)