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1. Composing the team: Undoubtedly
the easiest part of the project. The “team” was already constructed even before
news spread of the contest. The team was made up of friends that had been
together from the start of their high school lives. With their independent
minds, they chose to join the contest even without the supervision of a coach
or teacher. The team already knew what had to be done, who was needed for what,
and after convincing the unsure minds of some of the members, the team and its
objectives was set into motion.
2.
Brainstorming for the Topic: Being
in a group of students from IV-Einstein, a science section of where only the
elite students from 1st year
to 4th year, it was
somewhat difficult to take into account all of the great ideas that were
offered. Debate after debate the team talked about the project nearly day and
night giving rest only when something was more urgent or necessary. Through
constant discussion our minds were both stimulated and challenged to find ways
against the short time, low resources, and even the lack of support from the
required sources. But our determination and intelligence managed to live up to
expectations, and even more so. We were able to formulate a plan that was the
most efficient and effective way of gathering our data.
3. Research/
Gathering of Data: Divided yet united
was the ideal plan for this long and fairly difficult step along the process of
making the project. Each member had his or her own task that needed to be
finished on a specific date. We were disciplined in achieving our task and if
one was having difficulty, then the whole team was damaged thus it was only
right for the entire team to fix the problem as well. Multiple websites, books,
and interviews were gathered with each important detail taken letter for
letter. Along the process, we understood more and more about each other’s
ability and limits. We researched about our topic and about our teammates.
Using our various researched references we finally got concrete data about the
cause, effect, people concerned, and the governments help concerning the
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| on our way to Panamucan |
4.
Trip to Panamucan: Panamucan,
being a remote area with hardly any visitors aside from the farmers working on
the fields was extremely difficult to gain access. This was a huge roadblock
for the team since they needed to gather information about the whole story
concerning the strongest flood experienced in Bukidnon. Our persevering
thoughts kept us going even if the odds were stacked against us. We asked help
from the Baranagay officials themselves to take us to Panamucan, but it wasn’t
without a price. The path to Panamucan is a hard and treacherous one that if
you were to walk, it would take at least an entire day to reach. The road was
muddy, steep, rough, and unlit.
At the site itself the people seemed to not be surprised of being interviewed.
But we knew that it was still difficult for them to retell that tragic day. We
finally found one woman willing enough to share her story. After the various
interviews, and picture taking we called it a day.
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| interview with the flood victim |
5.
Editing: Coffee cups could be seen everywhere,
droopy eyes that only opened because of the determination of the mind, laptops
placed on every part of the area, opinionated voices that could not be
neglected; this was how the editing of our team was like. Due to the lack of
time we worked on the project almost all night long. Voice recordings, video
cutting and picture imaging, rewriting of scripts papers it was utter chaos to
most people. But for our team, we knew exactly what we were doing and we knew
that it needed to be done. This was not the longest step but it was truly the
most frustrating one. But we held our heads high and lowered our pride because
we knew that we shared a common goal, and the only way to achieve it was to
work together and so we did. Opinions were given and respected, fingers were
hurting from all the typing and writing, and people were so sleepy we needed to
keep each other up from sleeping. But it was all worth it and the final edits
came out beautifully.
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| over time |
6.
Conceptualization of Blog design: This step in the
process was actually all up to our trusted leader. He led nearly every concept
of the blog with the help of his opinionated teammates. We already knew of his
capabilities as a computer literate, and we were confident in all his
abilities. He was our team leader and with good reasons no doubt. But although
he already had a thought as to what the blog would look like, he took into
consideration all the ideas given to him. During this stage, our minds went
free knowing that our blog be anything we wanted it to be. But we tried to
limit ourselves to the true importance of the message we were sending out, the
importance and destructive capabilities of our environment. And so the rough
design of our blog was agreed upon and we felt confident in the way it would
look.
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| busy |
7.
Blog designing: The blog came out great but our
leader questioned his work on whether or not it was good enough. We gave our
constructive criticisms and aided our lead blog designer with whatever help we
could offer. We started researching again on different blogs hoping to get
ideas as how it should look like. And so after much deliberation the blog
design was generated and fully accepted by the group. The hardest part
was actually the title of the blog, but we believed that we came up with a
meaningful and concise title.
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| reenactment |
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| Panamucan |
