Last January 27, 2014, the Junior Marketing Association organized a studio tour to ABS-CBN, participated in by forty-nine business students of CKS College. The tour lasted for almost two hours.

The tour started with an audio-visual presentation, introducing the company’s history and showcasing the works they have achieved throughout the years. From time to time during the run of our tour, our tour guides would tell us trivia, such as ABS-CBN has two kinds of locations: the on-site location and the studio location. On-site location is being shot outside the premises of the network while studio location is being shot in a studio inside the network. The studio location has two kinds: a temporary studio and a permanent studio. The difference between a temporary studio and a permanent studio is that a temporary studio is dismantled after it has been used by shows like ASAP, LUV U and others, while a permanent studio is not dismantled like the ones used by shows like Umagang Kay Ganda and TV Patrol. We first went to the studio of ASAP, a musical noontime show every Sunday, wherein we found out that it is the largest studio ABS-CBN has. It is a combination of three ordinary studios. We also went to other studios like the studios of Minute to Win It, TV Patrol, and LUV U. We also passed by the radio stations they have inside the network like DZMM, where we saw the actual goings on when they are live. We also visited the area where the costumes and the props are kept after being used. They have such wide array of costumes, used for intermission numbers in ASAP.

What amazed us during the tour was almost all studios are just small, and are far different from what we see in televisions. The guide told us that it is because of the camera they use. They normally use wide angled lens that makes the people and place they shoot 10 times larger than the normal size. Aside from the studios, we also saw quite few ABS-CBN stars like Kiray Celis, Miles Ocampo, Alexa Ilacad, Sharlene San Pedro, Amy Perez, and Teddy Corpuz, and others.

(Article by Jayzie Meach Brown)