A screenshot from a project a did before.
I graduated with a degree in Bachelor in Broadcast Communication in Polytechnic University of the Philippines - Sta. Mesa, Manila. Hindi ako nagsunog ng upuan. Here are some of the things I encountered kapag nalalaman ng mga taong graduate ako ng BroadComm. Lemme know if these or some happened to you, too (if you're a BroadComm slash course aligned to it graduate or student)!
1. Edi gusto mo maging reporter?
Ay, hindi po ba pwedeng gusto kong maka graduate muna? Well, that’s on my case. Syempre ‘yung iba ko sigurong kaklase and mga same course or in line sa course ko like Journalism, CommArts, gusto talaga nila maging reporter. As in ‘yun ang goal nila after college. Eh ako, gusto ko lang muna maka graduate. Honestly, hindi ko alam kung anong course talaga ang kukunin ko nung college. Ayaw ko lang ng Math. Then my senior from high school was taking up Bachelor in Broadcast Communication in PUP when I was picking up my choices as I applied for college. She said it’s good, the facilities are OK (wow!), Ted Failon and other media practitioners and personalities graduated from PUP so there I went! (Pero hindi ‘yun dahil kanila Ted Failon, o sa facilities, o sa ano pa man. Hindi ko lang talaga alam anong gusto kong gawin sa buhay ko. Yes, believe me. Pero mukhang naging OK naman ako. Ata. ‘Yung dose pesos per unit ata talaga nag pa Oo sa akin, eh.)
Kapag BroadComm ka o kaya CommArts, madalang ang magtatanong sa’yo kung gusto mong magsulat. Laging ‘yan ang unang tanong. Na susundan ng:
2. So peg mo si Jessica Soho/Korina Sanchez (kung babae ka)? Gusto mo maging si Kabayan/Mike Enriquez (Excuse me po!)/Ted Failon (kung lalake ka)?
Wow. Wala namang nagsabi sa aking may pamantayan po pala tayo rito. Hindi po ba pwedeng gusto ko lang maging ako? Medyo naka enclose tayo sa stereotyping culture which leads to:
3. Akala ko MassComm/Broadcasting ka? Ba’t ang tahimik mo?
Dapat madaldal ka! Wala kang imik, eh. I usually get that with our relatives every family gathering. Ako, madaldal? (Oo, online.)
4. Baka mapatay ka! Madukot! O ano pa man!
When the Maguindanao Massacre happened, that was the first thing my Nanay said. I was like, So ano po? Magpalit na akong course? Ano? Sagot! Chos. Hindi ko sinabi maski ano d’yan sa Nanay ko. Hindi pa nag aaway no’n si Paul Salas at Daniel Padilla. Hindi ako sumagot sa Nanay ko. Second year college ako no’n. Wala nga akong maisip na course bago ako mag college, lilipat pa ako? (Oo, after a year, hindi ko pa rin alam. Go with the flow lang.)
5. Sample nga d’yan kapag magbabalita ka!
Gusto niyo po ba marinig ang Do-Re-Do pattern ko? Pero syempre, sa isip ko lang ‘yan sinabi. Ngiti lang sagot ko.
Nung college kami, our professor told us about the Do-Re-Do pattern pero hindi naman daw kailangang ganun na ganun. That was the usual or the very basic. You can have your own style. Just like how Enriquez says Excuse me po! which back in the days of early broadcasting, coughing, stuttering, and all that, were mortal sins (as far as my memory remembers from our lecture. I might be wrong. Baka gawa-gawa ko lang ‘to. Fake news pala!)
Just because we took up BroadComm or MassComm or CommArts or Journalism, it doesn’t mean that what we want to do, automatically, is to be a newscaster or a journalist. Wait. Parang medyo specific pala ang journalism. Hindi sa pag i-stereotype pero mostly ATA (because I am not a Journ major), they want to write for newspapers, magazines, be investigative journalists. (Journ grads or journ students, lemme know! Correct me if I am wrong. Thank you!)
Some of us wants to write – for TV, for radio, for films, for magazines, for newspapers as well. Some may want to be directors, producers, master editors, sound technician, actors or actresses, videographers, photographers.
And as for me, which you prolly do not really care about (LOL, chos), I do not know what I want. As far as I know, before, I just wanted to write. But sometimes, writing is hard. You lack ideas, original ideas. You lack motivation. You lack whatever is lacking (or you’re probably just one lazy kiddo just like me) – sleep, perhaps?
So for those thinking of what to take up in college (wait. Do we still have college in K-12? Darn it. Yes, I am a BroadComm graduate who doesn’t have the nose for news.), maybe, just maybe, find something you love, like, or something which makes you see who you wanna be in the future.
And opo, hindi po ako reporter. Maski nung writer pa ako sa Bantay Bata 163, hindi ako nagpicture na hawak ko ‘yung mic. Ewan ko. Hindi ko ata talaga feel maging reporter on cam na nag i-stand upper o ano man. (Nangyari lang once kasi kailangan sa isang class ko before, yung pag i-stand upper. Look! Ang payat-payat ko pala talaga dati! ‘Yung gangstah photo ko sa taas.)
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