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

Taxi fare hike up starting Monday

From: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/breaking-news/taxi-fare-hike-starting-monday

Friday, January 21, 2011

THE P10 increase in flag-down rate of all taxicabs in the country will be implemented starting Monday, January 24.

The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has increase the flag-down rate from P30 to P40 for the first 500 meters and from P2.50 to P3.50 for every succeeding 250 meters.

The LTFRB based its decision on the petition filed last January 22 by the Philippine National Taxi Operators Association (PNTOA) stressing that "since the last taxi fare increase was approved on September 30, 2004, the costs of living, fuel, spare parts, vehicle maintenance and labor have increased."

The decision, however, states that taxi operators need to comply with conditions to charge the increase, which include the use of taxi meters that issue receipts, payment of the P510 filing fee, proper resealing of taxi meters, and at least three uniforms for each driver.(Sunnex)

Reaction:
This move by the LTFRB will not only hurt the students like me but will also hurt a lot of taxi drivers. I interviewed a taxi driver and he said that this increase will hurt him specially because he has an old taxi cab. He said that old taxi cabs will now have lesser customer than before (thinking that as of now they have much lesser customer than those good new taxis) because of the fact that people want something worth their money and will not settle for an old cab (unless in a very odd situation). I as a student will be having a hard time with this one because of the price which is very high. I do think that the one who would benefit the most out of this increase are the jeepneys, given that a lot of students like me would start to think of the expensiveness of hiring a taxi cab. That's all and by the way the one that I interviewed was my uncle and he's a brilliant taxi driver whose taxi is as cool as Alaska. God bless us all.