NBSB (No Boyfriend Since Birth) is a 2016 romantic teen comedy web series written and directed by Cloyd Winstanley. The main cast Includes MOST Models Amanda Grunwald, Pamela Bagares, Andrea Ebajay and Bonjour Adaza. The mini-series is about 3 best friends Kathlyn (The Narrator), Kassy and Karla who never had a boyfriend in their entire life and fell in love with a handsome senior Caleb. The 3 K’s, as they are fondly called, decided that it’s about time for them to be in a relationship and vowed that they will never break their friendship especially for a man. When they saw Caleb, the three fell in love with him and started to keep secrets from each other for the first time. All cast members are first-time actors and the web series will mark as the first of its kind in the Visayan dialect.

 

Directed by: Cloyd Winstanley

Produced by: Phoenix Multimedia and Metro Oro Ventures

Written by: Cloyd Winstanley

Project Manager: Alvin Adaza

 

Based on a concept by: Che Roa

Starring:

Amanda Grunwald - Kathlyn, "The Religious Nerd"

Pamela Bagares - Kassy, "The Emo Actress"

Andrea Ebajay - Karla, "The Sexy Flirt"

and Bonjour Adaza - Caleb, "The Campus Crush"

 

Cinematography: Cloyd Winstanley

Edited by: Cloyd Winstanley

Production company

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• Phoenix Multimedia

• Phoenix Films

• Metro Oro Ventures

• Metro Oro Stars and Talents

 

Distributed by

• Salida.net

 

Release dates

• December 5, 2016 (Pilot)

 

Running time

Approximately 10 minutes per episode

 

Country

• Philippines

 

Language

Visayan, English

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Development

 

In 2013, Cloyd winstanley had a casual meeting with blogger/photographer Che Roa. Che shared a concept and expressed that she wanted to make into an indie film, entitled NBSB (which she is also currently writing a blog about based on her experiences), about three girls who never had a boyfriend and regularly meets at a coffee shop and discussing their future. Cloyd expressed interest in it saying he would like to help with the production. The project was never realized.

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In December 2015, Cloyd met with Sacred Heart of Jesus Montissorri School students Anastasia Neri, Anamar Neri (Basul 3), and Mikaela Salvador during a debut shoot. Cloyd said that they would be perfect to play the 3 characters and would help on the production and the script which was supposedly going to be Anthon Neri’s directorial debut. The Project which was targeted to be shot in the summer of 2016 but was never materialized.

 

After election period in June of 2016, Cloyd accidentally met with friend Alvin Adaza after a photoshoot with MOST models. Cloyd expressed interest in casting some of Alvin’s models in his next project. After a series of meetings, Cloyd and Alvin planned to make a web series based on Che Roa’s concept and make a website similar to Netflix which would be a hub for Visayan indie films and documentaries. Cloyd asked permission from Che for the rights to her concept and he developed the idea in a few weeks.

 

Production

Cloyd and Alvin went to a series of Casting, workshop and meetings for the correspondent roles for Kathlyn, Kassy and Karla. (Cloyd took these names from his real life friends 1 2 3). Amanda Grunwald was chosen to play the Religious Nerd Kathlyn. Miriam Sia was supposed to play Kassy and Rhoda Lompon to play Karla. After script revisions and a series of meetings, Pamela Bagares was set to play the "Emo Actress" Kassy and Andrea Ebajay to play the "Sexy Flirt" Karla. Miriam and Rhoda will then be reserved for future projects. Bonjour Adaza got the part of the "Campus Crush" Caleb.

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Controversy

During the casting period in July 2016, A private message by Miriam Sia and notorious columnist Mark Francisco was posted in public and revealing the project which was still being kept a secret that time. The post resulted to an exchange of harsh remarks between Mark, Cloyd Winstanley and Alvin Adaza thru text and facebook posts. Mark Francisco refused to delete the post thus resulting to a heated argument therefore jeopardizing the secrecy of the project.

 

According to Alvin Adaza in a private interview with a blogger:

“We wanted to keep the project a secret lang sa from the public that time kay wala paman gud mi naka shoot ato. Di man gud mi gusto nga ang among idea ma bal-an sa uban kay unya awatun na hinuon. Ma gansi na nuon mi. kami gud naka una ana nga idea.”

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Alvin added that the controversial facebook post resulted to Miriam Sia pulling out from the project.

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“Gipa kalma lang sa namo ang situation kay init kaayo. Naapektohan ug ayo si Miriam to the point nga dili na sya ga reply sa ako and dili nasad sya interesado sa role. Nag leave sad sya sa group chat and it really made me sad.”

 

Cloyd also expressed frustration and anger to Mark siting that he “posted a private message of a minor and betrayed her trust.”

 

“Wa man ko’y labot if ma bal-an sa tanan ang among plano total nag binogok naman sya (Mark), di man sad niya tangtangon iyang post bisan unsaon nakog pakaon ug insulto…ang ako lang nga minor man gud si Miriam.”  Cloyd added.

 

Shooting

The team started shooting some of the flashback scenes on July 10, 2016 at Pane e Dolce and went back on July 31 to shoot the main scenes and “The Making of NBSB”. Cloyd said he liked the ambiance of the café and loved their food and coffee and expressed that he will be going back there to shoot more scenes.

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On August 6, 2016, The cast and crew shot additional scenes at Liceo de Cagayan University.

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Soundtrack and Photography

Most of all the episode's soundtrack were done by Independent musician Mitch Tabor of Happy Zounds.

Photography for the posters and website were done by Vincent Udasco.

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Press Conference and Episode 1 Release

On November 20, 2016, Cloyd announced through a facebook post, releasing the final and official poster design, that the first episode will finally be released online on December 3, 2016 (It was moved from November 27). The complete cast of NBSB, Cloyd, Alvin and some of the episode's guest held a press conference on December 2 at Pane e Dolci and were joined by some of Cagayan de Oro's press and bloggers. The event was culminated by a special preview of NBSB's Episode 1.

 

The Next day, December 3, Episode 1's supposed release, Cloyd travelled to Davao City for a video shoot with Pepsi. Due to the busy schedule of shooting, re-editing of the Episode 1 video and slow internet connection which caused uploading errors, Episode 1's release was delayed. It was finally uploaded on December 5 at around 8:30 in the morning.