SYNTHESIS

Due to technical problems while shooting this video, the beginning of the act was not successfully captured. We sincerely apologise for this problem.


Our group presented 3 scenes set in a flower shop market that depicted how the market reacts under certain situations.

Scene 1 is when a perfectly competitive market was described using the conditions we visually presented. The actors, in addition, explained further the characteristics of such a market in their dialogs. A perfectly competitive market, as we tried (and hopefully succeeded) to depict, is a type of market where there are many buyers and sellers and which has homogeneous products. The actors' dialogs highlighted these and some other traits of this market. Our background, presented using a set of flower shop pictures and animation, showed the uniformity of product prices (if you noticed the price lists in the pictures) within the market to show that buyers and sellers have negligible impact on market price. Furthermore, in this scene, we decided to have dialogs in different languages to emphasize our cultural differences and our unity as a team, and to imply universality of a perfectly competitive market's characteristics (meaning such markets exist around the world).

Scene 2 was designed to show what surplus is and how it affects market price and vice versa. It showed that in the presence of surplus, market price drops. Once again, the dialogs played a huge part in showing these concepts. 

Scene 3 was crafted to explain shortage and its effects to market price. We showed that shortage causes price to increase to reach equilibrium. The scene touched a little of the concept of equilibrium to help illustrate the reasons why price adjusts for both situations (shortage and surplus).

The last scene was purely for entertainment :)


Production

The storyline, proposed by Donnavie Geronimo and James Angub, was inspired by the nearing Valentine's Day and was later developed into a script by Kevin Milo and Donnavie. Because it was difficult to show the concepts, the scriptwriters focused on the actors' dialogs to inject the concepts into the story. As suggested by the scriptwriters, the production team, prepared a number of props such as the paper flowers and bouquet, and the visual and music effects on the background to compensate for the overemphasis on dialogs.

Donna, Maricris, and Joy preparing for the Flower Props...
it seems the three are enjoying themselves... just look at Maricris' wide grin :D

Leong, Maricris and Hyeyoon practicing their lines...
and James and Donna discussing the script..
ooh~ Our Director Donna is hardworking as always

The whole class is busy for the role play...
we were all probably exhausted after the presentation
but we had fun, anyways...

The team had been very busy preparing for the presentation. Everyone helped for the props and at the same time prepared for their lines. 

Explanation of the Perfectly Competitive market

setting the set?... it looks like it... but we're actually tidying up in this picture
as the next group prepares their stuffs

Production Staff / Cast

	Scene Roles	Production Roles
Angub, James	Buyer #3	Location Manager
Arce, JA	Buyer #1	Synthesizer
Capocao, Rovi	Flower vendor	Cinematographer
Caralos, Jill	Understudy	Art Director/Special effects supervisor
Clarin, Joy	James’ girlfriend	Production Manager/Props master
DelaRosa,Migs	Buyer #2
Esgana, Maric	Korean Flower Vendor	Cinematographer
Geronimo,Cha	Narrator	Script writer/Director/Narrator
Kim Hye-yoon	Korean Flower Vendor
Jeresa	Understudy	Props master assistant
Lim, Karen	Japanese Flower Vendor	Visual/Music Effects Producer
Leong	Ms. Capocao's understudy
Milo, Kevin	Understudy	Script writer/casting director
Reyes, Alvin	Waiter