THE PRESENTATION DIARY
February 9, 2011 (Wednesday)
We have had a hard time choosing what topics should be incorporated in our play. The topics were not yet chosen so obviously the play has not yet been decided also. Gem chose the three topics which we thought was easy and we all agreed to it. Shiela (wearing the skirt) aired suggestions like doing a Mara Clara drama. Everyone was okay with it, no glitches. So we decided to take it. We started making the script and assigning roles to everyone. We also decided to make a theme where we could base the whole play and we chose a "living room theme". So, the program flows as follows:
1. Introduction (Living Room themes)
2. Mara Clara
3. Spongebob Squarepants
The props were made during lunch breaks and some volunteered to do them at their respective houses. A lot of effort was contributed and some of us even went to school on a VERY rainy day just to make the stage props. (Gwapo kaayo among props. Makita man sa presentation. Haha!)
On the day of the presentation, February 18, 2011, we went to the room thirty minutes earlier so we could set up our props and so we could prepare the things that need to be prepared like the chairs and tables.
Everybody in the group was like running around, getting tapes, cutting cartolinas! Everything was just so messy dinagdagan pa ng mga classmates namin who were loitering around, taking pictures, stepping on our backdrops and pulling off our "television"! *sigh* A stressful yet fun day it was!
THE INTRODUCTION
The living room theme was planned thoroughly by the members. Since it's all about economics, we tried to infuse the subject with our theme like we talk about supply and demand of products in Economics so we used the television theme to show the demand for television programs and how huge network companies (like GMA and ABS-CBN) supply programs for the masses.
The role play was started by an introduction made by Janine Rose Lumanag, presenting the group and greeting everyone a good afternoon. Then Shiela entered the room, sat down on a seat, got the remote and turned on the television. She switched the program to Mara Clara and...
MARA CLARA SCENE
The Mara Clara Scene script was made by Shiela Lelis, Gem Perez and Rizka Lafuente but all members contributed as they were asked to make ad libs and off cuffs lines.
THE CONCEPT:
The said scene was all about Cost of Production. Clara returned home from school then threw her bag to Mara. She commanded the poor girl to wash her bag and the latter followed as commanded. She washed the bag and her mother came in the scene and helped her. Susan, Mara's kinikilalang nanay, pitied her and asked forgiveness for she cannot give what Mara needs and what Mara wants just like the trendy bag Clara asked her to wash. There, Susan told Mara about her dad losing his job and being put to jail. Her dad joined in a strike because of a layoff that happened there. In the said scene, we can see that the layoff was due to the diminishing marginal product. The workers were too many and the production was not efficient anymore so the company had to do it or else, it shall lose its business or will gain no profit at all.
SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS SCENE
The concept was suggested by Janine Rose Lumanag. She chose who will play the major roles. Lei Therese Lames was the one who downloaded all the music needed for both scenes.
THE CONCEPT:
The second scene highlighted the deadweight loss/tax and competition and forces of supply and demand.
Mr. Krabs went to his supplier to purchase buns and other ingredients to make Krabby Patty, the best patty under the sea, only to find out that Poseidon had already imposed a tax. Mr. Krabs did not know what tax was and his supplier explained to him what it was and how it would affect his operations (we showed a graph of the deadweight loss). In our example, Krusty Krab, the best patty restaurant under the sea, sells krabby patties, the best patty under the sea, for P10.00 and the demand will decrease linearly from a high demand for free nails to zero demand for nails at P20. In a perfectly competitive market, producers would have to charge a price of 10 pesos and every customer whose marginal benefit exceeds 10 pesos would have a krabby patty. However if there is one producer who has a monopoly on the product, then they will charge whatever price will yield the greatest profit. For this market, the producer would charge 60 pesos and thus exclude every customer who had less than 60 pesos of marginal benefit. The deadweight loss is then the economic benefit forgone by these customers due to the monopoly pricing.
After that, we also explained what happens to the tax paid by the buyers. The tax goes to the Government which can be used in improving the country like making roads, schools, bridges and other buildings or playgrounds which can be used freely by the public or for public consumption.
We also introduced the competition and forces of supply and demand. Krusty Krab, the best patty restaurant under the sea has seen its biggest competitor, the Chum Bucket owned by the tiniest organism under the sea, Plankton! Under the sea, all fish(and I mean all kinds of them, as well as octopuses and squids!) crave for krabby patties and Plankton has decided to compete against the best patty restaurant under the sea, the Krusty Krab so he has been developing new technologies just to make his patties taste better than the Krusty Krab's. So, both restaurants were like attracting customers through advertisements and freebies. As the demand increase so was the competition. Since both restaurants differ in how they advertise or promote their product, the one who had the most appealing commercial has the greater chance of winning the competition, of winning the customers' attention.
THE CAST
Arliz Katrina Pusta Clara (1st scene)
fish (second scene)
Stephanie Placer Mara (1stscene)
fish (second scene)
Shiela May Lelis Playwright (1st scene)
Director
Girl watching the t.v
Lei Therese Lames Clara's mom (1st scene)
fish (second scene)
Musical director
Rizka Lafuente Playwright (1st scene)
Supplier (Second scene)
Joan Pajarillo Clara's friend (1st scene)
fish (second scene)
Gem Louise Perez Props director
Spongebob (second scene)
Edzel (I forgot the full name sir) Clara's dad (1st scene)
Mr. Krabs (second scene)
Edzel's friend (I forgot the name of Edzel's friend sir)
Squidward (second scene)
Janine Lumanag Playwright (second scene)
Photographer
Synthesis
Director
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