want to join LFC and make your own films, too. At the end of the day, you have this feeling deep inside: you are glad that you have enrolled in Ateneo. In the months after, you'll come to know the unparalleled joys of film production--from conceptualizing and writing the script to creating the shot list and opsched to carrying camera equipment and props all over campus, moving from one location to another as your team hurries to film as many scenes as they can before the sun sets. You'll come to know the exhaustion of packing up immediately after each scene and rushing towards the next, of having to do retake after retake because the shot angle was off or the audio intercepted by someone talking on set, of waking up extra early for call time and crawling into bed late at night. At the same time, you'll also come to know the thrill and satisfaction of watching your film come to life, from the sheer joy of seeing your characters lifted off the page to shooting and eventually, post-processing, where the cinematographer, scorer, and editor work their magic. You'll come to cherish the joys of working together with your film crew--the short lunch breaks interspersed with laughter, the onset of panic when the camera dies and
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