Manenaya

Reflection Paper: “Manenaya”

Manenaya is a short film written and directed by Richard Soriano Legaspi. Manenaya is a Kapampangan term for “waiting.” The film depicts about a person waiting for her husband’s missing body.

In the composition of the film, I noticed that there are different symbols that were shown. Each symbol was depicted in different scenes. For example, in one scene, it focused on the coffin while in the other scene, it focus on the other parts of the house like the windows, the stairs and the sampayan. Since the film has a lot of symbols, the viewers can draw their subjective interpretations. And each scene in the film was neatly cut.

Not only were the people focused in each scene but it also showed everything in the background; it focused on the mountains, the clouds in the sky, the flowing of the water in the river and the sandy road. I also think that it has a good exposure because in some parts it maintain as much detail as possible in both the very bright parts and in the very dark parts of each scene.

Another is the camera angles; there were different kinds of camera angles. There was the close-up shot, the establishing shot and other type of shots. Since it was in a dialect-form of language, it made a bigger impact on us, the viewers, because it makes us feel like we are part of the scene.