Thursday, October 6, 2011

Basic Photography

Photography Guide 

There are many basic film photography tips and techniques for beginner photographers that will help to create some stunning images. Knowledge of these basic tips and full control over your film camera, including 35mm, medium format, and large format cameras, will help you achieve the correct exposure and create photographs to impress. To jump right into some of these techniques, please use the menu on the left side of the page to navigate your way to the specifics.

Composition in Photography TermsComposition is perhaps the single most important film photography technique and separates the mediocre snapshots from the professional photography. Composition must always be considered before capturing the image to film. It involves proper balance of shapes, diagonals to maintain interest, cropping, and bringing the subject to the foreground.

Depth of Field

Depth of field is the amount of distance between the foreground and background of the subject that remains in focus. This basic photography technique is handled with the aperture setting of a film camera and the focal distance of the subject. In short, a shallow depth of field involves clear focus on your subject and out of focus areas around it while a great depth of field will have everything in the frame in focus.


Motion Photography

Motion photography captures motion. There are various photography techniques for capturing motion using various shutter speed settings. For instance, you capture frozen motion photography with a fast shutter speed where the subject is captured during movement but is perfectly sharp and in focus. You may also wish for a blur motion photography where a slow shutter speed will dictate blurred motion.

Night Photography

Photography at night requires long exposures and even more patience. It is also one of the most difficult photography techniques to figure out the proper settings of your shutter speed and aperture. Most 35mm film cameras will not have a light meter to that give accurate readings for night photography. As such, it is suggested you have a handheld light meter.


Landscape Photography

Landscape photography requires sharp detail through small apertures and slow shutter speeds. While most landscape photography follows a simple rule of composition with a foreground, middle ground, and background, the possibilities are almost endless. Every good landscape photographer will be willing to walk to different spots and have patience for the right lighting for fall on the scene.

Wildlife Photography

Wildlife photography will likely use very fast shutter speeds using a handheld camera. A long camera lens is also necessary to take close photographs of the wildlife without getting too close to startle them or cause any harm. A zoom lens will also be very advantageous for birds, as they will likely be higher than you. With a lot of patience and quick reflexes you can create successful wildlife photography.

Winter Photography

The bright whites of winter photography will cause a few complications for any film photographer. Essentially, your camera and light meter will naturally darken the white of the snow as it measures a mid gray point. You will need to overexpose your film in this case to bring out the white of the snow. Of course, different grades of snow will call for different changes in exposure.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Eraserhead's Disbandment

For starters, here's the irony: "It might be long before we get another surprise from them" was my closing line in my review of the album "Carbon Stereoxide", which the Eraserheads released in 2001. Well well, surprise-surprise.

For the diehard E-heads fan, the news of the bands' break-up was so tragic that there was a significant sense of loss. With all due respect to the fans, it really was such a huge and sad thing. The music of the Eraserheads is so classic in the sense that it reminds us of carefree high school days and of tambayan songs that weren't corny.

But in reality though, the break-up was bound to happen. Buddy Zabala admitted, "Ang dami nang instances na dapat na kaming nag-disband. Or ang dami nang circumstances na going towards disbandment na. I count three or four…and we've never disbanded because of so many things. Basically, because we like what we're doing. We have fun doing the songs in the studio, promoting it, performing live. Lahat may element of fun…"

Maybe too much fun. As Raimund Marasigan confessed, "For the past few years, the past few albums—nag-cru-cruising lang kami. Wait for the shows. We rehearse twice a year." Buddy agreed, "Familiarity breeds contempt. Ano kasi eh, complacency rin…It's bound to happen, we've been doing it for 12 years. So you get used to things...All of a sudden, something happens totally unexpected…ako, di ko na-expect…Shocked ako—what's happening, diba?" The guys wanted it clear though that "There was no big production when Ely left. Walang sigawan…walang confrontations."

Marcus Adoro summed it up best when he pointed out, "Yung attitude ng banda, sabi ng mga matatanda na, selfish naman kung hanggang matanda na kayo, ganun pa rin."

"Wagka sanang magtanong at magduda…"

The best thing about the Heads' reaction is that they're being realistic. Although at first, there were "mixed emotions," according to Raimund. "Una, negative diba. Pero…sinusubukan namin positive yung negative. Kasi kung negative, pwedeng wag na. Wag na nating ituloy, umuwi nalang tayo sa probinsya" (Buddy: "Sige!" Raimund: "Teka! Soli ko lang CDs mo.") "Pero baka pwedeng positive kaya sinusubukan naming positive yung maging effect. Ibig sabihin magtratrabaho kami…" Buddy claimed, "We've rehearsed more this month than the past six years"— especially since they had to up the chords by an octave to accommodate the voice of the new Eraserhead, Kris Gorra-Dancel of Fatal Posporos.

"Ngayon, parang bagong band, bagong songwriting experiments so medyo exciting, medyo nakakapagod, medyo masaya. Medyo fresh," Raimund said, which was very much apparent on the evening of April 19 at the Hard Rock CafĂ© in Makati, where the guys introduced their new lead singer and performed two of their new songs. In a month, the "new" Eraserheads had come up with 6 new songs. So, oddly enough, Ely's goodbye episode must have the best thing that ever happened to the guys after all. "Everybody gets a kick in the ass," Buddy said, going on to explain that "Everybody's forced to work, everybody's trying their hand at writing…at making music. It kinda speeds up the growth process."

"Dahil ang puso ko'y walang pangamba…"

Raimund did a private text survey among their friends and came up with a divided result—half encouraged them to go on, the other half advised them to give it up. A particular columnist of a widely-read broadsheet even suggested that the guys should just disband. It's been 12 years, after all. They already have a revered place in the history of Filipino music and society. But the most irritating thing about it all, probably, is how some people initially pulled back their support for the Heads because, for them, Ely Buendia IS The Eraserheads.

"Yung ganoong klaseng assessement, warranted naman yun eh," Buddy said. "Kasi, Ely has been writing…for the longest time. He really is a gifted guy...Kung mawawalan ka ng lead songwriter sa band, that spells a lot. Those are big shoes to fill. So, we have our work cut out for us. We don't try to let those things get to us. Because, people will always have their own subjectivity about it."

Raimund went to prove that sack of truth. "If we believe that ganun nga yung case, siguro Heads lang yung banda namin. Diba, we won't be doing anything else kung wala kang `self-preservation instincts'. Si Marcus nag-produce ng album. I worked with Sandwich. Buddy's been producing albums for other people. We've been playing for all the
other bands."

Suddenly, Kris is put in the spotlight. Can SHE fill in Ely's shoes? Undeniably, Kris is a talented songwriter as well. The guys deserve a slap on the back for making a good move. For starters, Kris should be commended already for working as hard as she did during the month before she was finally introduced. Secondly, it's cute to see Kris still gushing about being an Eraserhead. She had the widest smile, tinged with a shower of kilig, when she said, "Kami po ang The Eraserheads" at Hard Rock. And lastly, Kris has an appeal that is riddled with candidness—not to mention the fact that she's one hot momma—that really got the crowd glued to the band.

Kris is living the dream of so many, and she had almost missed it by a wink. "I heard about it (Ely's adios) nung tinawagan ni Raimund yung husband ko (Vin Dancel of Twisted Halo). Naglalaro kami ng baby ko dun sa tabi ng phone, tapos…nakita ko yung sobrang surprise ni Vin. Siempre nakinig na'ko kung anong nangyayari. Tapos nagulat ako…speaking as a fan." Raimund said he originally intended to invite Vin to be their new lead singer, but "mahal." (Buddy: "Mahal talaga yun. May lawyer's fee." Kris: "Eh kung ako, di nyo na kailangang magbayad!")

But in fairness to Kris' musical talents, it really was a stroke of genius that was immediately put into play. Buddy relayed, "Kasi for the past two shows, wala si Ely. We had two shows, we had to finish our commitments—one in Ilocos Sur, one in Baguio. So, rush rehearsals and everything. We got a session drummer and we got Rand to play guitars, so si Raimund nag-front. After two shows, Raimund decided to play drums." Raimund said, "The drums part for the Eraserheads' music) was designed to be played by me, so I want to play it. Just get a new singer…" Right after his phone conversation with Vin— Ting! The proverbial lightbulb lit up. "Tinawagan ko si Buddy. Sabi ko `Buddy, si Kris kunin mo. Tawagan mo.'"

Sure enough, Kris is having the time of her life. "Sobrang ibang-iba maging Eraserhead kaysa sa [Fatal Posporo]. I feel pampered! Not because I'm a woman, but because yung management nila iba mag-alaga. Rock and roll!"

"Na tayo'y mabubuhay ng tahimik at buo, Ligaya"

So, rock and roll, the Eraserheads did. The change was well-received and a lot of enthusiasm has been reborn in their fan base. The band displayed a hefty pack of talent that made for a really good show.

It's mostly interesting to see that the three original Heads in the new band have been together since their late 80's college dorm days in U.P. Raimund reflected, "That (friendship since college) contributed to us continuing kasi, kahit na nag-iba-iba na kami ng barkada during the Heads, meron pa rin kaming common college friends na nagkikita once or twice a year. I mean, mas barkada kaming tatlo. I'm sure may connection din yung barkada ni Ely at ni Buddy, yung barkada ni Marcus at ni Ely. So meron din kami yung kami lang tatlo…nagkataon lang na si Ely yung umalis." "Co-inky-dink," Buddy chimed in.

So, enough about Ely. The new Eraserheads is busy with interesting experiments. As an example, Raimund pointed out that "We've never written for a girl's perspective…it's our first time, kaming tatlo at si Kris siempre. She's been writing for herself." Buddy added, "This is the first time she's gonna be writing from a guy's perspective."

Raimund recalled, "May inimbento kami ni Buddy na lalaki yung lyrics pero pambabae yung kanta. Parang bading minsan, pero astig eh." (Marcus: "So, ngayon yung bading rock.") "Or si Kris— switching of new lines from classic songs, nag-iiba rin yung perspective diba? Pag kumanta kunwari si Kris ng `Magasin', tapos lalaki yung kinakantahan nyo, parang iba rin yun diba… strangely familiar, but with a twist."

The guys will, of course, still play the old Eraserhead songs we went through high school and college with, and loved. But for how long will they keep it up and will they try to come up with a somewhat new image? Buddy said, "We're pushing on for another 6 months. Realistically, 6 months, to see if it works." "Ibig sabihin, we'll try to record an album, we'll try to play more shows…and still try to play music and make music," Raimund explained. "If that doesn't happen in the next few months, we'll be realistic and do whatever. Pero diba, it's worth the shot." "Ako naman ngayon, mas forward-looking," Kris said. "Sana matuloy, na sana ok yung response ng mga tao."

This time, it really won't be long before we get another surprise from them.

My Happy Tree Friends

HTF Characters: Cuddles
There’s nothing softer than this cute rabbit’s fur. and unfortunately there’s always lots of it flying around in every Cuddles episode.



  HTF Characters: Giggles
Shy and sweet, this little chipmunk’s trademark is her bubbly personality and giggly attitude. You’ll want to squeeze her to death!



HTF Characters: Handy
There’s no job too big for this amputee, beaver carpenter. He’s always eager to lend a helping. limb and proves that you can do anything with the right attitude.



HTF Characters: Toothy
The only thing bigger than this freckle-faced beaver’s tail his big ‘ol buckteeth. He always ends up biting off more than he can chew.



 HTF Characters: Nutty
This jittery squirrel with the wobbly eye always gets into sticky situations because of his sweet-toothed cravings.



HTF Characters: Petunia
This sweet smelling skunk never raises a stink. You won’t have to hold your nose around this friendly critter. (Note: wears a pine scented deodorizer around her neck.)


HTF Characters: Sniffles
This brainy anteater loves to eat ants! Any way you add it up, he’s always getting his nose into trouble.



HTF Characters: Splendid
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s a. flying squirrel! This hero of the skies is always ready to swoop in for the rescue. Not knowing his own strength, he always does more wrong than right.


HTF Characters: Flaky
Whenever there’s prickly situation, this dandruff-laden porcupine is sure to be far, far away.



HTF Characters: The Mole
Keep your eye out for this blind mole. He manages to work his way out of the most perilous situations. (Note: The Mole actually has a mole.)



HTF Characters: Disco Bear
This funky bear has soul to spare! Always groovin’ it’s trouble when he’s movin’.




HTF Characters: Russell
Batten down the hatches when this sea otter pirate comes aboard. He’s got a great right hook!



HTF Characters: Mime
If actions speak louder than words then this silent deer never stops talking. His annoying actions will leave you speechless.



HTF Characters: Lifty
The other part of the kleptomaniac brother duo, this sly raccoon is the master of the five-finger-discount. He’ll steal your heart and sell it back to you!



HTF Characters: Shifty
One part of the kleptomaniac brother duo, this sly raccoon is always looking for a good deal… a good deal of stuff to steal!



HTF Characters: Cro-Marmot
Literally, the first “inanimate character.” This ancient mammal is frozen in ice but manages to get around the block.



HTF Characters: Flippy
Emotionally tattered, this bear veteran will warm your home and leave no witnesses.


 
HTF Characters: Pop & Cub
Pop, the fatherly bear, teaches us that there’s always room for “inability” in parental “responsibility.” Cub is innocent and cute. Pop has his hands full trying to keep this ‘lil tyke from crawling into trouble.


HTF Characters: Lumpy
Always the odd-man-out, this dim-witted blue moose is all heart and all thumbs.

Drawing Happy Tree Friends





Monday, October 3, 2011

Indie Films

INDIE FILMS SYNOPSIS

BAHAY BATA (BABY FACTORY)
BY EDUARDO ROY JR. AND JEROME ZAMORA

Synopsis:

Sarah is a nurse at a Public Maternity Hospital. The hospital is abuzz with pregnant mothers of all shapes and sizes in different stages of labor. The hospital is short on staff on Christmas Day so Sarah is forced to put in a double shift. Sarah observes the women coming and going in her ward, noting who is a first-timer and who is a veteran. Meanwhile, the wards are overcrowded : two women and their babies sharing single beds while those in labor are spilling unto the hallways. Sarah takes these all in stride, her heart and mind laboring over her own personal pains.
AMOK
BY LAWRENCE FAJARDO
 
Synopsis:

The bustling and sweltering rugged intersection of Pasay Rotonda serves as the main setting for this story of interconnected fate and destiny. As a raging man’s bullets strays into different directions, the fate of several different characters are sealed and determined. As the temperature rises, the tension escalates and the story unravels with unforgiving immediacy and explodes in the end as each one struggles to survive and escape their inevitable end.





ANG BABAE SA SEPTIC TANK
(THE WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK)
BY MARLON RIVERA AND CHRIS MARTINEZ

Synopsis:

Ang Babae sa Septic Tank chronicles a day in the life of three ambitious, passionate but misguided filmmakers as they set out to do a quick pre-prod at Starbucks, a courtesy call to their lead actress, Eugene Domingo, and an ocular inspection of their film’s major location, the Payatas dumpsite. Director Rainier, Producer Bingbong and Production Assistant Jocelyn are well-to-do, well-educated film school graduates who are dead set on making an Oscar worthy film. They believe they have a winning script, the energy and the drive to make their dreams come true. Like most filmmakers they know, they have devised a screenplay that will show the real essence of our culture: poverty. In the course of one day, they brainstorm and exhaust all possible treatment of their project: the story of Mila (Eugene Domingo), a mother from the slums, who out of desperation to survive, has sold her child to a pedophile. As they discuss the possible executions of the story, the movie-within-a-movie gets reborn in Jocelyn’s imagination several times. As a gritty no frills neo-realist film, as a glossy musical, as an over-the-top melodrama and as a docu drama using non-actors. For their last task of the day, they visit the dumpsite for the first time. As filmmakers gunning for authenticity, they get excited with the ”beauty” of the squalor around them. Soon enough, they are faced with reality as they come face to face with the real effects of their chosen subject. Babae sa Septic Tank is a comedy about misguided ambitions, the art of making art and the romanticization of poverty.




 CUCHERA
 BY JOSEPH ISRAEL LABAN

Synopsis:

Based on a true story, Cuchera is about Filipino drug mules, drug couriers and their recruiters. It follows the story of Isabel, a veteran drug mule, in her first attempt at running her own drug transshipment operation between Manila and China. Isabel’s character is based on the story of an actual Filipina drug mule who was caught with eight capsules of heroin lodged in her sex organ, 48 in the rectum and 11 in her abdomen after an x-ray was conducted by Chinese authorities. Cuchera presents an accurate depiction of how some Filipinos end up becoming entrenched in the world of illegal drugs. Currently, the Philippines leads all Southeast Asian countries in the number of nationals arrested for drug smuggling charges in China. As of 2009, there are currently 95 Filipinos languishing in various jails in Chinese territories---four of whom are on death row. Violators include minors who enter China with fake passports.



 I-LIBINGS
 BY ROMMEL ANDREO SALES

Synopsis:

A coming of age story about Isabel’s lessons and realizations on life and death as a funeral videography intern. Due to her family situation, Isabel is cynical and skeptical of everything that comes her way. When she enters the I-libings for her required college internship, she sees it as the worst internship her college adviser could suggest to her. Later as she accumulates her required hours, she realizes that the company is not just a place where videographers make money out of other people’s misfortunes but is a place where the dead and the grieving receive special attention. It all comes full circle when Isabel is faced with an unusual family tragedy. Isabel realizes that her internship might have been just 200 hours, but the lessons that the I-libings left her would last a lifetime.




 LIGO NA U, LAPIT NA ME (STAR-CROSSED LOVE)
 BY ERICK SALUD, NOEL FERRER AND JERRY GRACIO

Synopsis:

Karl Vladimir Lennon J. Villalobos, aka Intoy, is secretly in love with his friend Jenny, the most beautiful girl in the campus. Jenny is rich and quirky; Intoy is street-smart and ordinary. But this friendship is not simple, since Jenny has bestowed on Intoy some perks and privileges, including going to bed with her on the condition that they will not fall in love with each other. Before graduation, Intoy feels that he has to shed his pretensions of being astig and finally profess his love for Jenny. But he is devastated to learn that Jenny is pregnant. Worse, Jenny tells him: “Don’t worry, this is not yours.” Based on the bestselling novel of Eros S. Atalia, Ligo na U, Lapit na Me is an examination of postmodern love and relationship and the way this generation deals with their love and fear.

 



NINO

 BY LOY ARCENAS

Synopsis:

The once illustrious Lopez-Aranda family has faded. Celia, once the darling of Philippine opera, and Gaspar, a distinguished ex-congressman, lacked the shrewdness to maintain their once elegant status. Saddled with a failed marriage, a vanishing career and mounting debt, Celia sold her share of their house to Gaspar, now bedridden. She managed to stay for free in exchange for being Gaspar’s caregiver. Gaspar loves listening to Celia’s arias. This idyllic arrangement is shattered when he slips into a coma. His daughter, Raquel, comes home from the US, determined to sell the house to salvage her own economic woes abroad. This signals Celia’s impending homelessness. With only a few heirlooms to sell, she is at her wits’ end. A fervent believer of the Sto. Nino, she hopes for a miracle. She dresses up her grandson, Antony, in Sto. Nino robes to prepare him for the coming fiesta. She insists this will invoke a miracle that will awaken Gaspar and stop Raquel from selling the house. Antony’s father, Mombic, while processing his travel papers to work in Dubai, tries to strike a deal with Raquel in selling the property without his mother Celia’s knowledge. Merced, Mombic’s sister, reluctantly takes on the burden of taking care of Celia and a household sliding to ruin. The family members clash in a confrontation that reveals their weaknesses and their hopeless ideals. Mombic leaves his son to the care of his mother and sister, Merced, the only family member who quietly accepts her fate. As a final ditch to awaken Gaspar, Celia holds a tertulia, inviting her aging opera singer friends. They sing arias, oblivious to the ravages of time, crippled reminders of a glorious past. In the middle of a chorus, Gaspar quietly dies, sealing the fate of his sister and the mansion that once was called Villa Los Reyes Magos. Celia looks out into her once beautiful garden. She sees Antony, still in his Sto. Nino robe, playing in the garden, offering a little illusion of hope to a past that can never be rekindled.



TEORIYA (FATHER’S WAY)BY ALISTAIR CHRISTIAN “ZURICH” E. CHAN

Synopsis:

Teoriya is a story about loss that centers on the film’s main character, Jimmuel Apostol II. After hearing the news that his father has passed away, Jim goes back home to Zamboanga City after leaving ten years ago in bad terms with his father. He arrives in Zamboanga only to find that his father has already been buried and he doesn’t know where. Jim takes a journey around the Zamboanga peninsula and ultimately into his own self, finding the missing piece of his life.



ANG SAYAW NG DALAWANG KALIWANG PAA (THE DANCE OF TWO LEFT FEET)BY ALVIN B. YAPAN AND ALEMBERG ANG
Synopsis:

Ang Sayaw ng Dalawang Kaliwang Paa explores the intersection and divergence between feminist and gay concerns in the third world context, as it features the poetry of Merlinda Bobis, Ruth Elynia Mabanglo, Joi Barrios, Rebecca Anonuevo, Benilda Santos and Ophelia Dimalanta. When Marlon, a college student, stalks Karen, his literature professor, he finds out that she moonlights as a choreographer and dance teacher in a dance studio. Frustrated over his performance in her literature class, he plans to impress her instead by learning to poeticize his body movements and enroll in her dance class. He hires his classmate to teach him the basics of dancing. As Dennis, his tutor, teaches him how his body should move, Marlon begins to understand the intersections between the art of poetry and dance. This opens up his world to new insights about the life of Karen as s single woman who chose to live the life of an artist in a third world setting. Marlon begins to understand how the poems being discussed by Karen in class are testaments to her choice to stand by her art. Karen eventually finds out, through Dennis, that Marlon only enrolled in her class to be near her. She confronts Marlon about this and wishes that his interest for dance would survive his infatuation for her. Marlon feels betrayed over Dennis telling Karen. But it is also this sense of betrayal that tells him that he has already become close to Dennis, whom he now considers a friend. Up until then, Marlon and Dennis have become inseparable as they both tackled the complexities of poetry and dance. Sensing the coldness between the two, Karen set them up to help her train a group of dancers for a cotillion dance. Eventually, Karen trains both Marlon and Dennis to star in her dance adaptation of the epic Humadapnon, when she bags a grant. Marlon will play the lead role of Humadapnon, who becomes trapped in a cave full of women. Dennis’ character now has to rescue Marlon from the women, as he plays the role of Sunmasakay, the male incarnation of the goddess Nagmalitong Yawa. On the eve of their performance, in a drunken conversation, Marlon confronts Karen how he could not understand her poetry. Karen, in response, assures Marlon that he does understand her poetry. His mind is just unwilling to, unlike his body which already understands. Karen invites Marlon to dance with her, but in the middle of her dance, she passes him onto Dennis. Their drunken dance culminates with Marlon and Dennis taking on the roles of Humadapnon and Sunmasakay on stage.



 

Global Battle of the Band (Philippines)

Bluefish Asia Events & Media, Inc. as National Directors for GBOB Philippines brings you the world’s biggest music contest for ALL BANDS that play their own music, LIVE. A total of 28 countries are taking part in the Global Battle of the Bands.

This coming 2011, Philippines will again bring our finest band to compete at Europe representing our very own music and style.


The Global Battle of the Bands is a 4-step music competition:

1. Local Qualifying

2. Semi - Finals (Regional)

3. National Finals

4. World Finals (abroad)



GBOB PHILIPPINES (Global Battle of the Bands) kicked off last MARCH 2011,

Local Qualifying Heats will take place in NCR, BAGUIO, LUCENA, CEBU and DAVAO. The National Finals will be in Metro Manila. The battle is set on November 2011, Send off party for the Winner of the National Finals is on January 2012.


WHO MAY JOIN:

1) Amateur and Professional bands in the Philippines (Open to non-residents)

2) All kinds of genres.

3) Maximum of 8 people in a band.

4) All ages. There is no age limit for band members. However, below 18 band members should be accompanied by a guardian.

5) Bands with original songs. No cover songs and no use of pre-recorded music.

6) 2 original songs in English.



Bands can be signed or unsigned to management, publishing, record companies. GBOB International agreements other than the right to use their name, image and music for promotional

HOW TO REGISTER:

1) Make your band profile on GBOB

2) Click on the button here and fill in the electronic registration form:
      http://gbob.com/main/authorization/signUp?target=http%3A%2F%2Fgbob.com%2Fregistration%2Fphilippines
3) Registration is P2,000/per BAND. They can pay via bank deposit.

4) Deposit at BPI Account Name : Rameses T. Cervantes, SA 0219-0051-05.

5) Email the scanned deposit at gbobphil.reg@gmail.com.

Bands will be notified through their indicated contact numbers, we will email or mail an official letter before the Local Qualifying dates.

All bands must use the backline amplifiers and drums provided by the GBOB organizers.

MECHANICS FOR THE COMPETITION

LOCAL QUALIFYING HEATS


Live Performance (No cover and pre-recorded backing tracks/songs)
Maximum of 8 minutes performances during local qualifying heats.
Venues at: NCR, BAGUIO, LUCENA, CEBU and DAVAO

SEMIFINALS/ REGIONALS
If there are 20 or more bands competing in one area or Region, a Regional semis will take place, getting the best bands from the semis on that region to advance at the Finals
2 live song performance, maximum of 8 minutes during semi-finals.
Venue is at: METRO MANILA and VISMIN

NATIONAL FINALS
10-15 Finalist will compete for National Finals.
Venue is at: METRO MANILA

WORLD FINALS: Only one band will win the title of NATIONAL CHAMPION For GBOB Philippines 2011


PRIZES
NATIONAL FINALISTS:
Consolation prizes to the finals
NATIONAL CHAMPION: Php 500,000 worth of prizes includes the following : . 1.Band Development Package 2.Round trip flight and accomodation in GBOB World Finals.
WORLD CHAMPION: GRAND PRIZE – US$ 100,000 worth of cash and band development package in UK.

What is GBOB-BLUEFISH RADIO?



A weekly radio program every Mondays 10pm - 11pm at UR105.9FM/URFACERADIO.COM that aims to play the SONG ENTRIES and conduct Live interviews and Guestings for the contestants at GBOB Philippines. This is to give the contestants a chance to promote and use the contest as their platform to showcase their talent and their music regardless if they win or not.