What to Peg?
Movie Peg… is the immediate solution when movie studios reach the static end of creativity. The search for an easy way out is always the desired solution. A rumor once circulated that a big movie studio in the Philippines collected several short stories with the hope of putting the said stories together in order to come up with projects for the creative pipeline.
Movie Peg is a neutral device. In fact, it has the potential of developing skills in terms of upgrading the ability to construct well-crafted stories and detailed- 3/dimensional characters within the context of genuine innovation. This means, one must be well-versed with the art of material deconstruction and unit development and management.
But the problem arises when innovation begins to disintegrate in the midst of wholesale plagiarism by desperate creative teams. Changing the gender of a character or changing the atmosphere of a story does change the over-all physical and emotional narrative lines of an outline. Cosmetic changes are not structural or substantial innovations. These are blatant act of plagiarism.
By: MELCHOR DF. ESCARCHA