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(11/20/05)
ANTONIO GABRIEL
ABAD ABAD IV
Address:
Apartment G
Pinaglabanan
E-mail:
[email protected]
Cellphone:
(0917)5346853
CARREER OBJECTIVE
To obtain a communication arts related job with personal and professional
growth potential.
To be recognized in the field of mass communications and/or film production.
LONG TERM OBJECTIVE
To be able to
contribute in sharing Filipino Culture and Mythology through
Film or Television as a medium.
WORK EXPERIENCE
SENIOR GRAPHICS ARTIST / ART DIRECTOR
- ABS-CBN GGLOBAL Limited
Part of Advertising creative team for designs of
fliers, websites, logos, banners.
Designs OBBs and logos for shows and
specials. Conceptualized, storyboarded, art directed, and assisted
in direction of numerous television commercials as well as
audio-video productions.
Previous Work
JUNIOR GRAPHICS ARTIST- ABS-CBN
International
Graphic artist for print and video materials.
MANAGEMENT TRAINEE CUM
CASHIER -
TELEPHONE MYSTERY CALLER
- Bank of the Philippine Islands
Served as the “Telephone Mystery Caller”, a project of the Total Quality
Department of Bank of the Philippine Islands for three consecutive years.
Successfully created awareness for
the new project of monitoring the way employees answer the telephone.
ARTIST / COLORIST - Sarrangolla
Magazine
Colored artwork for the children's
magazine.
Also assisted in the layout and design of posters used in Saranggola Party.
EDUCATION
1999 -
Intensive Film Workshop held in
Made 3 short films using 16mm within a span
of 4 weeks.
Made an additional 3 other personal shorts
within the same span of time.
Films currently still in 16mm format. No VHS copies available.
1994 to 1999 - DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY
Bachelor of Arts degree in Liberal Arts.
Major in Mass Communications, March 1999.
Dean’s List:
1st Term 1995-1996
2nd Term 1996-1997
1990 to 1994 -
Awards:
Consistent, Conduct Award.
Loyalty Award
OTHER WRITING AND VISUAL ART RELATED ACHIEVEMENTS
CURRENT OCCUPATION
Numerous projects require visual skills: Storyboards,
Concept design, Advertising campaigns. Television teasers, Product plugs and AVP. Recently accomplished a
musical ad campaign that garnered One Billion Pesos worth of revenue in
POET - Poetry.com
Submitted poem selected to be included in book published.
Book released internationally.
POWERPOETS - Powerbooks
Poetry Events.
Organized and hosted poetry reading events for Powerbooks for a little over a year.
THIRD PLACE
14th Annual De La Salle University Literary Awards
Won Bronze medals in said categories.
GUEST SPEAKER (BASIC
CARTOONING) - PHILIPPINE INNOVATIVE EDUCATORS
Gave a lecture on basic cartooning and the importance of the visual medium in
teaching to various teachers and educators from through out the country.
HONORABLE MENTION,
ONE ACT PLAY IN ENGLISH
13th Annual De La Salle University Literary Awards.
Only one to win an award in said category.
MULAT, FREEHANDS VISUAL
ARTISTS’ CIRCLE
Multi-media presentation of the Visual and Practicing Arts’ Unit held in
Assisted in stage design and musical
accompaniment using ethnic and tribal instruments.
ARTIST and WRITER - BEST
STAFFER AWARD, MALATE LITERARY FOLIO
Wrote short stories and plays for publication.
Attended basic creative writing workshops and lectures on fiction, poetry,
feature writing.
Assisted in directing poetry readings and
play productions.
Illustrated various works.
OTHER ACTING ABILITY
ACTOR and ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. - TATLONG PASADA
Acted and assisted in direction of a trilogy of plays.
Two runs, both filled at peak
capacity.
Handled creative direction of props and
stage design.
Assisted in training and blocking of
actors.
Won BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR in Dramafest.
PLAYWRIGHT, ACTOR and ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. - MASKARA
Acted, wrote and assisted
direction of a trilogy of plays.
Assisted in direction of actors.
Headed musical direction to be used.
Handled creative direction of props and
stage design.
OTHER SPEECH OR
ORATORICAL RELATED
CONSISTENT FIRST PLACER during ELEMENTARY and HIGHSCHOOL
YEARS in various Elocution, storytelling and oratorical contests.
SPEAKER - I SHALL
RETURN: Martial Law Open Forum
Initiated and hosted an open forum on Martial Law.
GUEST SPEAKER (BASIC
CARTOONING) - PHILIPPINE INNOVATIVE EDUCATORS
Gave a lecture on basic cartooning and the importance of the visual medium in
teaching.
SPEAKER, SPIRIT QUESTING
Asked to be a Guest Speaker
on Spirit Questing and the unknown for CLA WEEK
LAYOUTING AND EDITORIAL SKILLS
CURRENT OCCUPATION
Numerous projects require lay-outing skills: Monthly
TV Program guide, Annual reports, fliers, billboards and
website design.
ASSOCIATE EDITOR,
BOSCONIAN JOURNAL - DON BOSCO TECHINICAL INSTITUTE
Wrote numerous columns, began awareness on Administration-Student views and made camera ready layouts
for the School Paper.
TICKET and POSTER DESIGN, - TATLONG PASADA
Handled publicity and artistic design of marketing materials
for a play trilogy.
SEMINARS AND TRAINING TAKEN TO SUPPORT OBJECTIVE
Grievance Handling Seminar
July 2005
Service Quality Seminar
March 2005
September 2004
DIRECTORIAL
APPRENTICESHIP
Under Director Ipe Pelino, GMA - 7
ATBP TEAMBUILDING
SEMINAR
“7 Habits of Effective People”
MALATE CREATIVE WRITING
WORKSHOP
Antipolo, Rizal
MALATE POETRY READING
“Latay-Panulaan sa Karimlan”
3rd MALATE ORIENTATION
SEMINAR
Pansol, Laguna
BASIC CARTOONING WORKSHOP
Attended a basic cartooning
workshop held in Louie’s THX.
ATTENDED NUMEROUS SEMINARS AND TALKS ON VISUAL ART, SHORT
STORY, POETRY AND FEATURE WRITING.
All held within campus, De la Salle University
HIGHSCHOOL EDITOR’S
GUILD OF THE
Focused on effective editorial writing, newspaper layouts and the
like.
COMPUTERS, ON-LINE AND MULTI-MEDIA EXPERIENCE
DILIMAN online comicbook
at http://www.geocities.com/dilimancomic
Independently produced online comic. Began
last October, 2002.
Currently
ongoing with existing fan following.
WEB-PAGE DESIGN, Kumusta Kabayan
Designed website for Kumusta Kabayan,
a television show for North American Filipino viewers. Site no longer online
WEB-PAGE DESIGN, created on-line site for ATBP.
TICKET and POSTER DESIGN, created tickets and posters to market play. Site
no longer online
PERSONAL WEBSITE found
at http://surf.to/tobie
Received numerous AWARDS and was featured in STARTING POINT.
FRESHMEN AND TRANSFEREES’ ORIENTATION
Assisted in the Computer and LAN-related presentation of the
Orientation to incoming students of De la Salle University. Received a certificate of MERITORIOUS HONOR FOR
ATTENDANCE
Held in
SOFTWARE PROFICIENCY
MACROMEDIA FLASH 4
ADOBE PHOTOSHOP 7.0
ADOBE ILLUSTRATOR 10.0
MS OFFICE 2003
COREL DRAW 5.0
ALDUS PAGE MAKER
ADOBE PAGEMAKER 6.5
WINDOWS98
NERO
IMAGE READY
INTERNET EXPLORER
NETSCAPE
HTML PROGRAMMING (using Notepad)
Uses both PC-Compatible and Macintosh G4 (OS
9.0)
REFERENCES
Available upon request
PERSONAL BACKGROUND
Born on April 25, 1977 in
Interests: Drawing,
Writing,