LPAS: A Live-Action Animation Hybrid Short Film and a Website Promoting Filipino Poetry

Throughout the centuries, Philippine poetry, in its modern form, has made its way online with the rise of digital technology. However, an online article suggests that most Filipino poems are left on library shelves unappreciated. This lack of demand causes limited amounts of publishing. Thus, bookstores and publishing companies would not invest in these writers’ works. With this, the researchers investigated whether there is a lack of appreciation and promotion of Filipino poetry in today's generation and whether a hybrid short film is an effective multimedia outlet to promote the said field. All of the results yielded positive in that the participants showed interest in Filipino poetry after the film and had positive remarks about its technical aspects. Initially, the pre-test assessment showed that the respondents' interest in Filipino poetry gained a weighted mean of 3.67 out of 5 overall. In the post-assessment, however, gauging whether the short film helped pick their interest, there was a notable increase of 0.96 in the weighted mean, making it an average of 4.63. This project shows that the short film impacted the viewers regarding attaining the proponents' goals.