TEAM BEAT

#1

When we heard about this year’s ideas that matter competition we were ecstatic. But as soon as we got the brief we felt kind of unsure. Doing an integrated marketing campaign is definitely not an easy job and doing one for classes A,B,C  promoting Original Pinoy Music is tragic.

            For our first meeting we talked about research. Xyla designated works for each of us. The paperworks were dreadful. It was so hard to do the team was still doing it hours before the presentation pass the actual executions.

            We were off to a very slow start and the other teams already had a head start. We started to doubt if we could pull it off with the competition date closing in on us. But alas, with team work, dedication and hours of bugging people to answer our surveys, we somehow did it.

#2

                I still remember the group talking over facebook up until around 4:00 or 5:00 in the morning.  Everyone was doing something and passing it over to Xyla. . Enzo did the posters, Cathy and Alexis tallied the survey and so on and so forth. Every hour there’s a notification in Team Beat’s private group. Facebook literally bled. Call time was around 7:00 and we’re still working on it around 5. We chased time.

            Fast forward to 7:00 am. We agreed to meet at Starbucks to finalize everything. Everyone was dressed up with heavy eyes and blank stares. Bangag as they call it. We we’re so worked up we forgot to buy even a single bread or a small cup of coffee. Pinagtambayan lang naming ‘yung Starbucks. There we read the script and assigned reading parts. Everything was okay, not what we expected.

            All teams were put inside a holding area. 2 was our number. When Team Melody went to present we felt the nerves. As they left the room to present our team started reviewing everything. As in last minute we we’re still figuring out a lot of important things (advertising statement to name one). It turns out we still had some air to clear. The minute the host called us our anxiousness intensified.

            With wobbly legs and shaky hands we presented. It is almost impossible not to look at the judges while presenting. Their faces were very hard to read. Q and A came and we we’re actually surprised with the jury’s modest questions. We were expecting to be humiliated but the jury was actually satisfied with what we did. We even got a ‘congratulations’ in the end.

            After all presentations, results were announced. We came second out of three teams. Team Rhythm definitely deserves the win. As for us we are grateful for the experience and for our prize, a pen and a pencil. J

#3

            Video production can be both heaven and hell – Heaven; when your shoot goes according to plan – the actors arrive on time – props are complete, equipment is ready and the location is set and the weather – nice and peachy. Hell when the actors are nowhere to be found, when props are missing and malfunctioning, equipment is faulty and the location and weather just don’t seem to be cooperating.
           

            Our video shoot started out a bit rough, to be honest, as only part of the cast had arrived. We managed to find a location, we set up and started shooting the parts that we could and I decided that we could just go back to the same locations when the cast was complete. A few hours later, the cast was complete and we could begin shooting properly – admittedly, we were off to a slow start but we picked up the pace when everyone was very enthusiastic about the shoot. We kept on shooting, enjoying every moment of it that we could spend with our newly made friends and team members. Appreciating each other’s company.

            At the end of the day’s shoot, we felt tired – but we had a sense of accomplishment not only because we were done shooting, but because we have made new friends and that we worked together to produce the video. But after all the waiting, the awkward moments and ugh.. the walking… (SO MUCH WALKING!! D:) we realized that it was all worth it in the end.