MEDIA-BASED ARTS AND DESIGN IN THE PHILIPPINES

• Photos means light and graphos means writing
• Focusing a camera at a s subject and clicking the shutter is photography as process
• 2 distinctive characteristics of photography

  1. Immediacy
  2. Detail
• Photographs are vital tools in communication fields such as journalism, advertising, education, and even in courts of law.
• George Tapan is an award-winning travel photographer who has won the Pacific Asia Tourim AAssociation Gold Awards, an ASEAN Tourism Association award, and first place in the 2011 National Geographic Photo Contest.
• George Tapan highly acclaimed work has been published infive travel photography books
• John K. Chua is best known as an advertising and commercial photographer, with over 40 years of experience in this field and numerous local and international awards for his works.
• John Chua has applied his photo artistry to showcasing the beauty of the Philippines
• Another art form which risen to tremendous heights within the last century is film
• Kinetescope is a peepshow cabinet with an eyehole through which these earliest "movies" could be viewed one person at a time
• The French developed the cinematographe a hand-cranked camera, printer, and projector all in one that was lighweight enough to bring outside the studio
• Nickelodeon is a movie theaters charging a nickel for entrance
• There were the silent films starring Charlie Chaplin  titled A dog's life
• Slapstick comedy films of Buster Keaton and later Laurel and Hardy
• Gangster movie genre as well as horror and fantasy films took advantage of the sound technology that was newly available that time.
• Sound plus color then allowed for further developement of animate feature films, as well as what became the major American genre of the 1930s—the movie musical.
• A special genre known art films ("indie" or independent movie) catrs to a small group of viewers and critics, consciusly concerned with the artistic merits of a motion picture.
• Beginning with the turbulent 1970s, however, progressive Filipino directors emerged to make movies dealing with current social issues and examining the Filipio characters.
• Filipino directors who make movies dealing with current social issues and examining the Filipino character

  1. Lino Brocka
  2. Mike de Leon
  3. Ishamael Bernal
  4. Peque Gallaga
• Outstanding female diectors have likewise made their mark in Philippine cinema

  1. Laurice Guillen
  2. Marilou Diaz Abaya
• Laurice Guillen earned international acclaim at the Toronto International Film Festival.
• Guillens' Tanging Yaman won Best Picture in the Metro Manila Film Festival
• Guillens' American Adobo, Santa Santita, and Sa 'Yo Lamang, all gined her recognition among the current generation of Filipino moviegoers
• Guillens' American Adobo, Santa Santita, and Sa 'Yo Lamang, all gined her recognition among the current generation of Filipino moviegoers
• Marilou Diaz Abaya captured the attention and respect of the viewing public with powerful films.
• Abaya's Jose Rizal, perfectly timed for the centennial celebraion of Philippine independence
• Abaya's Muro-ami, which bravely exposed the deadly pactice of using child-divers to poud for fish in the Philippines' coral reefs
• Abaya's Bagong Buwan, wich dealt wit the human cost of the Muslim-Christian conflict in Mindanao.
• Crossing over easily between projects form televisions and for the big screen is veteran film director Maryo J. delos Reyes.
• The heartwarming drama film Magnif won for Maryo the best Director istinction at the 203 FAMAS Awards
• Brillante Mendoza was originally a profuction designer for films, commercials, and music vdeos, and started directing films in 2005.
• Mendoza's film Kinatay won him the Best Drector award at the highly prestigious Cannes Film Festival of 2009.
• Animation Council of the Philippines Inc. (ACPI) is a nonstock, nonrofit organization that aims to create an identity for Phillipines within the animation industry, making it one of of the preferred sources for animation services worldwide.
• In 2013, TESDA and ACPI began offering 2d and 3d animagion scholarship to interested high scjool graduatesz between ages 18 to 45.
• The showpiece of ACPI is Animahenasayn, an annual festival and competition featuring the works of Filipino animators.
• The ACPI grants the annual "Outstanding Emerging Artist in Animation Award" for outstanding young and fast-rising cartoonists and animators in the country.
• It also confers the Animahenasyon's "Lifetime Achievement Award" on notable animators and other contributors to the Philippine animation industry.
• The Philippine Animation Studio Inc. Was established in 1991 and has since collaborated on numerous animation projects and series with foreign partners.
• Urduja, an animated film adaptation of the legend of the warrior pincess of Pangasinan.
• Urduja is recognized as ghe first fully animated Filipino film, created by an all-Filipino group of animators using the traditional(hand-drawn) animation process with some 3D effects