mil q2 exam Flashcards
(116 cards)
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What goes on behind the screen. Most tedious process.
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PRE-PRODUCTION
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STAGES OF FILM PRODUCTION
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pre production
production
post production
distribution
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○ Generating ideas for the film.
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Brainstorming/Conceptualization
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○ Writing the screenplay.
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Scriptwriting
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○ Visualizing the story through
sketches.
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Storyboard making
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○ Finding actors
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Casting
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○ Finding shooting locations
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Scouting for location
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○ Planning the timeline and
finances
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Scheduling and budgeting
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Called principal photography phase because the entire thing is part of the _______
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production
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○ Preparing the set and
equipment
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Setting up
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○ Organizing actor movements (blocking)
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Directing
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○ Filming the scenes
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Actual capture
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○ Visual and sound effects
○ Cutting and arranging the
footage
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Editing
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Reviewing
○ Producers, directors, and scriptwriters review the film
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Reviewing
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○ Saving the film in its final format
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Rendering-saving the film in its final film format
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○ Showing the film in theaters or online
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Screening
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A _________ is one that lacks originality because it is like every other story on that topic
● Overused, predictable plots
● Challenge is to always create films
with a different twist (Korean films excel at this)
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cookie cutter story
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● It is an unnatural or unreal character that is more like a piece of cardboard than a real person
● Characters lack depth or development
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CARDBOARD CHARACTERIZATION
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● Mainstream: Commercial,
big-budget films
● Independent: Small-budget films
with more creative freedom.
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MAINSTREAM VS. INDEPENDENT FILMS
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● Universal film standards, often Western-dominated
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THEHOLLYWOODSTANDARD
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Oversimplified
characters based on societal biases ○ as seen in the appearance, the
manner of talking, and with interaction with others.
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Stereotypes
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: An actor is repeatedly given the same kind of role
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Typecast
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● R.A. 9239, or the Anti-Piracy or
Videogram Regulatory Board (Optical Media Board), is assigned to regulate the production of optical media in all its forms and impose stiffer fines and penalties for its illegal reproduction.
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PIRACY
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what is the ra for piracy
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R.A. 9239
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● Women are still often represented as subordinate to their male counterparts— emotional, noncompetitive, domestic, and sweet natured. In contrast to these types, other women are represented as unattractively masculine, crazy, or cruel.
MALE GAZE
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● Consist of signs that have meaning and interpretation
CODES
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____ are the essential “ingredients” for crafting content, especially for television shows
Codes
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● Reflect what is beneath the surface of what we see in media text
● Implied meaning; not explicitly stated
Symbolic Codes
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● The time and place where a narrative or story takes place.
● Conveys messages through place and time
Setting
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● Used to describe all elements in a frame, including their arrangement.
● Includes set design, costume, props, staging,
and rules of composition.
Mise en scene
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: Positioning of
characters
Blocking
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Perspective and
positioning
Camera Angle:
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: Body position
Posture
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: Outfit and
appearance
Costume
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Portrayal of a character through gestures, facial expressions, body language, movement and vocal qualities, among others.
Acting
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Includes speaking style, mannerisms, and body language that convey character.
Acting
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● Cultural in nature with connotation and underlying messages. In studying media texts, are notes of dominant colors, themes, contrasts, and symbolisms of colors used.
Color
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Use of dominant colors, themes, contrasts, and color symbolism to convey tone or emotion
Color
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involve filming techniques and methods such as shot types, angle, movement, and editing, most of which are specified in the film language section above.
Technical Codes
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Ways in which equipment is used to tell the story these exist only within each kind of media output and not outside of it
Technical Codes
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This refers to how the camera is operated, positioned, and moved for specific effects. Aspects of camerawork include positioning, movement, framing, exposure, and lens choice.
Angles, kinds of shots, and camera movements
Camera work
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● _____ is the manipulation of natural or artificial light to selectively highlight specific elements of the scene. Elements of _____ include quality, direction, source, color.
● Description of lights to be used in each scene
● Sets the mood and tone
Lighting
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● _____ is the process of choosing, manipulating, and arranging images and sound in a media product. _____ is done for four different reasons: graphic edits, rhythmic edits, special edits, and temporal edits.
● Transitions and directions in putting together various elements
● Arrangement of shots to create narrative flow
Editing
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______ is the expressive or naturalistic use of sound in audio-visual media products.
● Dialogue, music and sound effects
● Sound effects, music, and dialogue enhance mood and support the storyline
Audio
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● Neutral perspective
Eye level shot
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● When the character is going through something psychological - psychological tension
● Also used in comedy
Dutch tilt
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● Camera is on top
● Used to make the
characters vulnerable and
weak
● Shoots down, shows
powerlessness/ vulnerability
High angle
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● Portrays strength or superiority
● Shoots up, shows power/size
Low angle
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● If the character is minute
● Pet character
Worm’s eye view
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● To establish a scene
● Wide view from above
● Landscape, establishes a scene
Bird’s eye view
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● Moves in or out
Dolly
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● Following the subject
Tracking
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: Camera moves
closer to the subject
● Dolly In
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: Camera moves
away from the subject
● Dolly Out
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● Moves up and down
Tilt
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● Moves side to side
Pan
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○ Subject is more prominent but still with the environment; head-to-toe show.
○ Shows the subject from top to bottom for a person, this would be head to toes, though not necessarily filling the frame
○ Subject is closer compared to extreme long shot
Long shot
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● Subject shown in relation to the environment; often used in outdoor scenes
● Sets the scene., establishes the shot, usually exterior, little detail
● The subject is there but not necessarily the focus
● Outdoor shot
Extreme long shot
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Shows subject from the knees up
Medium long shot
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● Shows subject from chest or shoulders up
● Headshots for beauty pageants , mugshots
Medium close up
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● Shows subject from the waist up
● Profile pictures, graduation photos, portrait shots
Medium shot
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● Shows subject’s face
● Used in cosmetics, to show
emotions
Close up
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● Shows subject’s facial features
extreme close up
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are the rules or norms that define the form, content, and structure of media
Conventions
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➔ Waysinwhichaudiencesexpect
codes to be arranged
FORM CONVENTIONS
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Are common structures and understandings in storytelling
● STORY/NARRATIVE CONVENTIONS
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: Exposition, inciting incident, conflict, rising action, climax, denouement, resolution, and ending
Structure
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First person, second person, omniscient
Point of View:
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Man vs. Man, Man vs. Machine, Man vs. Nature, Man vs. Society, Man vs. Supernatural, Man vs. Self
Types of Conflict:
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➔ Are common use of tropes, characters, settings, or themes.
GENRE CONVENTIONS
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____ literally means “I hear” in Latin. The term pertains to any signal, sound, or waveform that can be heard
Audio
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● Oral tradition
● Acoustic experiments
- caves, trees, etc.
● Any sound made using
the environment is acoustic.
PRE- HISTORIC
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● Town criers - messengers
● Philippines: Umalohokan (local town criers)
MIDDLE AGE
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● The invention of telephone is credited to Alexander Graham Bell in 1876
● In 1887, Emile Berlliner patented the first in a series of inventions that would result in the first commercially successful disc record and the gramophone
INDUSTRIAL AGE
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● The RISE OF RADIO NETWORKS: Guglielmo Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio. After the war, large businesses saw radio’s potential profitability and formed radio networks.
● THE GOLDEN AGE OF RADIO: It occurred between 1930 and the mid-1950s. Radio provided an inexpensive source of entertainment that replaced other, more costly pastimes, such as going to the movies.
● Cassette Tapes and CDs
ELECTRONIC AGE
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● Apple introduced iTunes and the legendary iPod. Podcasting started in 2005. The music streaming sites (e.g. pandora, iHeartRadio, iTunes Radio, Youtube Music, and Spotify), and its streaming compatibility with phones changed the way people produce and consume audio media and information
● Voice assistants - Siri and Alexa
DIGITAL AGE
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AUDIO CLASSIFICATION
DIEGETIC AND NON-DIEGETIC
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➔ Occurring within the context of the
story
➔ Ex:Characters’voices,sirens
(depends), cars passing by, applause, etc.
DIEGETIC
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➔ Doesnotoccurintherealmofthe
story
➔ Ex:Music,narration,soundeffects
NON-DIEGETIC
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○ Dialogue
○ Voice over
○ Direct address
● The first thing you would use in media platforms
Human voice
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○ The noise around you
○ Ex: Reporting the traffic in
your area
Natural sounds
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● Can be artificial
● Ex: When you go to a spa,
they can have wave sounds which are artificial
Ambience sounds
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: Readily playable sound effects
○ Popular in the 90s when softwares and applications weren’t popular
○ Pre-recorded
○ Paulit-ulit
Canned
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The original
instrumental music composed for a production
musical score:
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Includes all the music used in the production, sometimes including the score, songs, and other audio elements
Soundtrack:
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: Making sounds using improvised materials
Foley
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● the length of time a pitch, or tone, is sounded
Duration
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is the quality that makes it possible to judge sounds as "higher" and "lower" in the sense associated with musical melodies.
Pitch
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is the speed at which a piece of music is played or sung.
Tempo
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● The combination, balance, and control of multiple sound elements
Mixing
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● The time control, editing, and order of sounds
Pacing
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● Effects to ensure smooth flow; describes how you get from one segment or element to another
Transition
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● One element stops, the next begins (“cut” in film); no interruption in between
Segue
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○ One element fades out (decreases volume), the next fades in (increase in volume), and they overlap on the way
Cross-fade
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● Pop music is characterized by catchy
melodies, relatable lyrics, and
repetitive hooks
● Rock is characterized by very loud
and metallic sounds
MUSIC GENRE
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● Opening spiel, episode duration, outro/cliffhanger
PODCAST STRUCTURE
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● V-Fade with some silence between elements
Fade to black
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➔ Is a singing voice synthesis
technology that allows users to create computer-generated singing by inputting lyrics and melodies
VOCALOIDS
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● Intro, verse, pre-chorus, chorus, bridge, outro
SONGS
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● creating a website that allows users to download music for free without any permission from the copyright owners
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT
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Such as in eavesdropping or wiretapping, can lead to ethical dilemmas, particularly when done without appropriate legal authority and oversight
2. MISUSE OF AUDIO SURVEILLANCE
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The rise of technology for audio manipulation, such as deep fakes, raises concerns about the authenticity of audio content
AUDIO MANIPULATION
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this is a kind of journalism where the reporter attacks a person in order to collect money from that person’s rival or enemy. The same journalist then defends the person originally attacked, also for a fee.
AC-DC (attack & collect - defend & collect)
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Refers to a practice in which reporters receive discreet and regular payoffs through their ATM accounts
ATM JOURNALISM
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Money making
Mantra of media is a business
■ Give what audience want than what they need
■ E.g. iPhones
Media is mostly business
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■ Acquire or merge
companies in the same production path to save cost
■ In sardines, can fish and packaging
■ Production path
■ Paper and printing
company for the magazines
Vertical
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■ Banks merge kasi
pantay sila ng level
■ Disney acquiring pixar
● Same lang silang animation
company
● The term is
monopoly
Horizontal integration
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■ E.g. hello love again: the first installment is star cinema only but the second one is GMA and star cinema.
■ Reach larger market trying to produce one product
Co-Production and joint ventures
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➔ Falseinformation,noharmmeant
➔ Hindi sinasadyang makasakit o
makasira
➔ E.g.falsealarm
MISINFORMATION
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➔ False information, aims to cause
harm
➔ E.g.Fakenewsandpropaganda
➔ Normallypropagatedbytrolls
DISINFORMATION
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● True information but aims to cause
harm
MALINFORMATION
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The trend now is _________
○ E.g. reels, Tiktoks and shorts
○ Does not mean that long term
videos (tv, cinema, film) will be gone.
short formed videos
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One character looks like an extra or has no bearing on the plot but turns out to be a major role for the plot twist
CHEKHOV’S GUN
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○ Appropriateness of film
Movie and Television Review and Classification Board (MTRCB):
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○ incharge of piracy
Optical Media Board:
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○ E.g. Filing for a media commentator na nagmumura
Kapisanan ng mga Broadcaster ng mga Pilipinas (KBP):
