to play or not to play - part 2

the title

The production started without the play having a title. It took us a while to think of a good one for it that would capture the concept. Lando had to ask us again and again for the right one. It was only early in August that we were finally able to choose a few. The initial suggestions were bordering from comedy to heavy drama: Lorenzo at Laura, L na L, ang martir at ang biktima, maalaala mo kaya, maalaala kaya niya, ang manlalakbay, ang dayuhan, liwanag sa bukang-liwayway, sibol ng pag-asa, hamon sa gitna ng kadiliman, pangarap at tagumpay, piniling landas.

For myself, I came up with liwanag sa bukang-liwayway coz I wanted to have a sense of hope in the play that is so tragic. Meaning there was a sense from all their hardships. However, the selection still continued until five were finally short-listed. By then I was in Geneva and just following the discussion by e-mail, then I suggested a title mixing my title with Libay’s. Landas ng Liwanag, path of light. The group decided to include that last title in the short-list.

The group then decided to ask the community to choose which will be the best title. This was in the spirit of the Tropa activities where all the communities are always involved. The entries were also raffled and the person drawn was going to get a free ticket. The winning title? LANDAS NG LIWANAG.

the poster

This is another process that took us a while and took us in the Pasamba’s residence in Pech a lot of times. Gunter initially made a couple as draft until I was able to sit with him and brainstorm based on the feedback of Landz at the beginning. Since they wanted sunset, we took a picture with that and also the picture of the main characters: Lorenzo and Laura with the title at the top. Geez, it looked like a film poster from long ago although Gunter was saying it reminds him of Lion King. Hahaha. I guess its because of the color of the sunset.

Then a few days later after Landas ng Liwanag was chosen as a title, I thought of a picture with a path and there would be a source of light somewhere. So I came up a draft lay-out and sent it to the team for feedback. Then again another day was spent with Gunter and we found a photo taken by Gina in the forest near their place for the path. Then Gunter added a source of light. Libay wanted a photo with rosary because San Lorenzo’s life focused on his rosary. Luckily we found a shot of Ays wearing a rosary on one of the production photos and the lighting just fitted perfectly. Laura’s photo was trickier because we had to find the right expression and thank goodness for Photoshop, we were able to mix 2 photos together to get what we want. Then Libay wanted also Paul’s photo because he is also one of the main characters of the play, as Fr. Dominic connecting Laura and Lorenzo. We were able to add all these elements and voila! The new poster came out with a somber look, using sepia as a color theme and when we finally sent it to the production head, they were really happy with it. Another element of the play done. Whew!