We were invited by the Cutting Edge Production for a blog tour and party inside their studio in Makati, and also this is my first ever event to attend and tour inside a animation studio, The big part is that everyone is operated by Filipinos. The Cutting Edge Production is busy today in finishing their animated movie entitled "Dayo", an all digitally produced animated movie that will be shown in all theaters this December 2008, and also an official entry for the Manila Film Festival 2008. My tickets will be reserved and at last I'll be falling in line soon to watch the Dayo movie this December 2008. ( Read more below to see my story, photos and videos)
about the movie
Dayo is an animated movie and story about an 11 year old kid who met a friend from the world of the elementals and seeks help to rescue his grandparents after being abducted and sent in to the world of Elementalia, a world were Filipino mythological creatures live outside the real world of the humans.
The characters were voiced by popular actors such as Noel Trinidad, Nova Villa, Michael V., Nash Aquas, Katrina Legaspi, Pokwang and Peque Gallaga.
about the film makers
The movie is directed by Robert Quilao under Cutting Edge Productions, the production team is composed of powerhouse animators, creative directors, writers and sound engineer and composer. The movie is treated by its state of the art and modern digital animation tools and software, all are in level with the quality and treatment we know from foreign animated blockbuster movies. The main planning for the movie took 2 years in the making and a 1 year post production work for completing the scenes of Dayo.
about the music
The music is composed by Jessie Lasaten, he is the Executive Producer of DAYO, and at the same time, the musical director. He composed lots of musical scoring for the movie and now they are under the recording with FiLharmoniKa, a full orchestra set for the BGM and original musical scores to be used in the Dayo. He composed also the lyrics theme song with the writer of the film, The music theme song was done in two kinds of version, one is interpreted by a rock band, Roots of Nature, which the music is now playing in NU 107 and soon to be made music video for the band. And also another interpretation by Lea Salonga which is one of the most mind blowing theme song ever in our local animation movie. We heard the two version of the songs, and It was like I was going to shout a song "A Whole new world!", the song is entitled "LIPAD", recorded in full orchestra by FILharmoniKa conducted by Gerard Salonga, and soon a music video for Dayo will be released in all music tv networks. The Dayo OST CD will be produced and also be distributed a month before the actual screening of the movie.
the audio, Sound supervision is done by Mr. Mike Idioma, Sound Design by Mr. Whannie Dellosa
Here's my video blog
about the tour
I was there with other fellow bloggers and we really enjoyed the studio tour, and the people of Cutting Edge Productions is really on the big push to promote and show that the Filipino can do more like we see in other foreign animated movies. This is the original content for animation that we are waiting for and we should support it with all of our hearts. I really like the story concept of Dayo, I saw this trailer last year during the screening of Animahenasyon, and before that festival, many people are already talking about the launch of Dayo. I really like the idea of an 11 year old kid make a friend with a girl who is a "Manananggal", a mythological character we know that it detaches its body and flew with wings and eat humans as their main food, it will sound like our own version of vampire monster.
Jesse Lasaten said that this is only the beginning and we know that everyone in the animation film industry will follow its foot steps and start to learn more on how we can bring our world class original animation content to the entire world.
I'm really excited to see the movie and also the upcoming merchandise as well.
Dayo will hit all Manila theaters this December 25, 2008
more photos in my album at Dayo animated movie - bloggers party and tour
