When the Film Development Council of the Philippines announce the celebration of the 50th edition of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF), which is conducting the MMFF x FDCP Student Short Film Competition, I took some time to think the story without a possibility of writing complex story in paper or script (except only a transcript as dialogues that allows to make the animation) with the theme "50". Starting on the halfway of the second week of October, the short film is developed with RPG Maker MV, a video game development tool that traditionally used for role-playing games and now used for adventure and horror games as well as "shorter, experimental films"; this later claimed these films behind Studio Moonchalk's Distortion and Love and Friendship, both developed and directed by myself.
I proposed the short film as the first RPG Maker animated film not only to be selected but submitted at the festival, as well as Studio Moonchalk's first short film to utilized fully voice-over in a RPG Maker.
Originally titled The Memory of Friendship, it tells the story recalled "friendship" (still retains the theme "50") about two people, Stefano and Constance, met for the first time and developed a close friendship (this was inspired by the first friendship between the main characters Steven Universe and Connie Maheswaran from the CN's series Steven Universe) until Stefan's death by accident, this left Constance traumatized by his death before the second friend, who is Stefan's girlfriend, comforts her and developed more closely as friends. Expanding five decades of Constance's daily life—from friendship to family and abandonment—older Constance encounters Stefan as a spirit for the last time and he tells her how he saw Constance every time he counts. He says his last goodbye to her and ascends to the afterlife. Constance is now reunited to his family, gracefully.
In a brink of social media addiction and depression over lack of development of a short film, this was scrapped due to reasons: First, it won't be qualified because of the rule about the runtime within just less than 5 minutes. I believed the short film will be more than 5 to 10 minutes, exceeding its story. Second, it lacks of hiring friends, members of Diwa Cinematiko, and families as voice actors due to their conflicts between schedules and work time. And lastly, the procrastination won't get away from interacting with social media and spending more time with listening music and watching films than working on a short film.
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