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“Mangatyanan” Official Trailer
dir. Jerrold Tarog
2009 BigTop, Cinemalaya, & Metric productions |
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Hey everybody!
mackiegalvez.com is finally up and running! This site will serve as my online ShowReel / DemoReel. A DVD copy will be available soon.
As of today, this site contains:
Thanks to Miko, for designing the site!
Coming soon are my works for pelicola.tv, my AVP work, and the trailer for my first feature film, Mangatyanan!
Spread the word, people! Be a part of Marketing Mackie '09!
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Damn, have the gas prices risen! It's almost doubled since first year college and it doesn't seem to stop! So. As a sign of the times (and of my age), I've decided to only use my car for shoots and oculars. It doesn't make sense to pay for toll, gas, and parking anymore. It's just too much to spend on! So it's back to commuting for me. I'd gotten a good groove with it in Cebu, and I'm sure it won't be that much of a lifestyle change for me. It'll be more hectic and there're way more routes to be learned, but what the hell.
I'm saving for my future, and a future with her. Time for a lifestyle change. It's for the both of us. |
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I found this while randomly checking files in the PC.
Couldn't resist posting it.
The things we do for fun... |
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The music video...
Dir. King Palisoc ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) hoykingcoy.
Assist. Dir. Jeck Cogama.
DoP. Mackie Galvez potatocoatedair.
Prod Design. Marco Ortiga .
Prod Manager. Adi Lopez adiohead.
Styling & Make-up. CD Dy & Hannah Kim.
Editing & Colorist. Maui Mauricio kangkungan2001.
Talents. Pupil, Patricia Portes.
sporkFORshort 2008
...and the High Five (taken from lightrefraction)
( My personal debrief. )
Feb. 2nd, 2008 @ 10:13 am
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| » Laying all my cards down. |
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Pupil's Monobloc music video shoot's in seven hours.
I've taken lots of notes, I've studied all the pegs, and I've planned out my lighting diagrams as well as i can. I'm using all the tricks I've learned over the (gasp!) three years since I decided on cinematography as my career. Pulled out all the stops. Every project is supposed to be another rung on the ladder of skill. No matter what lights you're able to use, you should incrementally get better. And this project's definitely one of those rungs that have been sawn through close to breaking. That one rung that you've got to tread lightly on, lest you snap it and come tumbling down a few feet.
I've got a lot of professional pride riding on this, and I will not allow myself to fail. The outcome of this project's gotta be a step up from my previous work. The best even. It just has to be. ANd it'll be there for everyone to see. As best said by Vaughn Cruz in our thesis film, "This is me, this is all of me."
Jan. 23rd, 2008 @ 10:45 pm
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| » I wish you were part of our world. |
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I know that as a DP, I should be biased towards dance, but I think voice is so much hotter that motion.
Dec. 29th, 2007 @ 07:53 am
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| » All it takes is a little back and forth. (4/8) |
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He: It's over, isn't it?
She: Yep. End of the line.
He: Huh. Thought we'd make it.
She: Everybody else seemed to think so.
He: Well, it was fun while it lasted. You can't deny that.
She: True.
He: .
She: .
He: I'll always-
She: Me too.
He: Maybe we're making a mistake.
She: Maybe.
He: But why do i find myself running to the finish?
She: .
He: .
She: Because i've already crossed it.
Dec. 12th, 2007 @ 03:20 am
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| » Christmas Gifts! |
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Hello everyone!
Maan & I are selling stuffed toys and pillows that we made ourselves!
Check out http://popjunklove.multiply.com to see the details!
Dec. 4th, 2007 @ 05:55 pm
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| » Irregular Beat |
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Sometimes your heart beats a little bit faster, or is it a little bit more? You tell yourself it's just something you ate, your body's chemical reaction to a tangible cause. You tell yourself to give it no mind. But deep inside, you know something's the matter, that you're not at equilibrium. Difficult thoughts run through me, and I'm scared of what's been hitting me.
Nov. 30th, 2007 @ 01:39 am
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| » On being back. |
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It's funny being back, albeit for the fact that it's a not-so-permament few months. It's got that extremely esoteric feeling of deja-vu attached to it. Everything's familiar in its own right, but it's changed, matured, over the past year. You feel attached yet detached, by no one's fault, mind you. The disadvantage of distance and time really has played it's role. I'm still clinging on to October of last year, and I'm still in the process of catch up.
It's funny being back and still missing everyone.
Nov. 4th, 2007 @ 12:54 am
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| » NBE. Non-Biological Entities. Try to keep up with the acronyms. |
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Oh-my-fuckin'-Lord!
Who woulda thunk that a Michael Bay and Steven Speilberg collaboration woulda worked so.fucking. well.
First of all, you can't go wrong with the same guy who made Armaggeddon (my asterisk in My Personal Top Ten). But to have a Michael Bay film with Speilberg elements from E.T. in it. i.e. "Stop he's a friend!"; the moment when Bumblebee was freed and he flashed the guns at all the soldiers; Transformers trying to hide from parents. That is just pure unadulterated joy.
Everything in that film was tribute. Tribute to an original cartoon series that every kid, male or female, watched. This has got to be one of the best rtibute films. Ever.
This is what's cool about the movie.
( Bee-otch )
Everybody has got to go see it. Please. For your own good, watch Transformers.
Jul. 2nd, 2007 @ 03:41 pm
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| » I miss Rick Moranis |
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"What have I done? My brains ang going into my feet!"
Jun. 29th, 2007 @ 10:17 am
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| » The Three Cards |
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Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord.
I've posted my 9 peso book finds, my Mickey Mouse money, but nothing will ever beat the 150 pesos I spent on the original VCD of the 1960's version of Tatlong Baraha. Yes, people, not the 2006 MMFF dark horse contender, but the inspiration behind that.
Many critics believe that doing remakes of classics just proves that the industry has no more ingenuity left. They are truly, completely, correct.
The 2006 remake cannot stand up to the original. On any level whatsoever.
Lemme list down the reasons why: (Spoiler Warning)
1) First of all, 1960 was directed by Manuel 'Lito' Lapid. The man himself. But funnily enough Toto Natividad was one of the editors of the 1960.
2) Instead of Leon, Julio Valiente and Zigomar, 1960's leads are Leon, Julio Valiente and Geronimo, a Indian, people, an American Indian! An American Indian in Spanish-occupied Philippines!
3) 2006 only had a fusebox and electric ceiling fan to boast of for it's historical continuity boo-boo, but 1960 has a billiard table, air conditioning units and bicycle tires.
4) The Lapid family butt naked bathing in a river, spashing water at each other only to end up chasing each other naked down the water.
5) The best intercut dialogue sequence ever. Twice.
6) An American Civil War Officer leading an army of Mexicans in hats and ponchos sent to hunt them down.
7) A training sequence featuring knives, whips and guns, only to be handed those very same knives whips and guns in the very next scene as presents to help them fight injustice.
8) A torture sequence that has them tied to the wheels of a kalesa, whose only possible persuasive effect is nausea.
9) The best, and I mean best, freeze frame ending in the entire history of film.
You cannot believe how entertaining this film was. But believe you me, it is.
Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord.
Jun. 26th, 2007 @ 04:27 pm
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| » The Return of the Comeback |
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Once again, the story of Jamie and Red will be told.
May. 10th, 2007 @ 11:47 am
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| » (No Subject) |
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Wrote this three years ago:
You get scared when your body finally catches up to what your heart says. In each heavy beat, your chest aches with the most soothing of pains, the most excruciating of joys. You wonder how long your heart's been that way, or if you've only begun to notice it now. Curling up inside yourself, on your side, hugging your knees close, you feel each beat in every corner of your body.
Nothing explains the smile you can't help craft. Or maybe you've always been smiling, your lips comprehending your heart's words at last. Maybe your heart's beating the way it had always been meant to.
Full.
Loud.
Strong.
Fast.
A tremor waking every cell of your being, beginning in your soul, flowing into your chest, and out the very tips of your fingers. Everything electric, familiarity is forgotten, everything a discovery.
Touching, yet Untouched.
Untouched, yet Involved.
Not, yet Is.
What has your heart known that your body is only beginning to express?
Maybe you're in Love.
You just might Be.
Yes. I believe I am.
Im in Love.
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I feel this poem course through me every now and then. I don't remember the words, but I know it's this poem.
I realize now that you don't need to be scared when you don't feel this every single hour of your day, because it stores itself within you, and then it lets itself out so unexpectedly, in one strong, slow motion wave that engulfs you.
Only. You don't want to reach up for air. You want to be caught in its cool weightlessnes and swim in it forever.
But. You eventually must.
So. You kick and kick and kick back to the surface at the last possible moment. You climb back up unto the breakwater.
And. You wait. You wait for the next wave to come.
Apr. 29th, 2007 @ 11:35 am
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| » Norwegian Blues |
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I am the Toru to your Naoko. Turn to me whenever you need help.
And you are the Midori to my Toru. Help me find my way back.
[A hug to whoever's able to guess which book I had just recently read. I'm sure we share the same heavy feeling after turning that last page.]
Apr. 2nd, 2007 @ 12:16 am
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| » Is this my montage? |
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Is this my montage or my crisis/es?
Every flight back home is greeted with elation and excitement. Every trip to Cebu is accompanied by a hanging feeling of dread, of loss, of unfullfilled opportunity. Which poses the question above.
I want my Cebu eductaion to be my montage. I want a series of Raimi-esque cross dissolves over a black screen: calendar pages being blown off by the wind, a clock in fast forward from screen right to left, me in a classrom taking down notes, close up of my pencil scribbling "mis-en-scene" on a legal pad, me looking up from the XL2 viewfinder giving a thumbs up sign to the director, a DV tape rolling,Final Cut Pro rendering footage, etc.
But it doesn't seem to be that way.
Every decision to fly back to Cebu is an arduous one, testing me more and more. Every flight back home I'm greeted with the reasons why I dreaded leaving in the first place.
Dilemma. A character's conflict. Two possibilities which a character cannot have at the same time but must choose between.
I wish that I could time lapse myself into graduation. Montage skill into me. Popular inspiring song myself into a dream project. Jump cut myself into the ASC.
Mar. 25th, 2007 @ 10:46 pm
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| » Prod Love |
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"After years of preparation and shooting, a movie is made. A movie that somehow miraculously reflects that original vision you had long, long ago sitting by yourself with the black screen or piece of paper. And maybe all over the world, people will sit in dark rooms and watch something that once existed only in your head. And they'll be moved, or entertained, or enlightened, or touched... and a part of it will stay with them and become a piece of their memories, a piece of their life. And this movie that you imagined and that is the product of so many people working so hard for so long, this movie that against all odds... turned out pretty good... this movie that bears your name... will outlive you. You will have succeeded in leaving something behind with the power to touch people. Something that says... I was here. And I tried. And this is what I did when I was here."
--Phil Alden Robinson
Mar. 12th, 2007 @ 05:16 pm
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