Nearly done with the Final Project

On the 13th of February 2011, we completed our editing phase for our final Media Studies Project. All that is left is a few sounds that need to be added. We have used music by Kevin Macleod, a professional musician who has royalty free music on his website and allows his music to be used for free without copyright. We have also used a track made by a local musician by the name of Danish, from Pyramid Studios, Karachi. 
All the group members i.e. Saad, Afia and I played a part in editing. Each of us took part in editing,  I mainly edited the soundtracks that we have used in our film. I have also made the logo and added sound effects to it. Since our project is nearly complete, we hope to upload our videos by the end of this week on our blogs and we are happy with the movie so far and I hope that our audience would also be captivated by our film and watch it.

Logo With Sound

This is the logo we designed previously but we have enhanced it by adding sound to it. We added sound to it on Adobe Premier Pro CS4 and we used different sound effects to make it sound the way it is.

Mediatronics: Group name and logo

We have finally completed our shooting and we are also nearly finished with our editing. All of us i.e. Saad, Afia and I, have contributed in making our film "Sweet Vengeance". We will hopefully submit our final video completely edited on the 14th of February. We also decided to make our logo, which we decided, would appear before the film starts. The name of our group is Mediatronics and we designed the logo on Adobe After Effects CS4 and all of us thought of the idea. We used different transitions and effects to add movement to the logo and we made the gear for Mediatronics and the text for it enter in two different ways on the screen and we made the rest come in together in a different way compared to the Meiatronics logo. This is the logo:

We also plan to add sound to it to make it look professional. 

Final Shooting

We have finally finished with our shooting and will begin editing by next week because we have to shoot a few shots again because they are not exactly what we need. We are also making a documentary for media studies which the school has asked us to do. The genre and title for our film are the same however we have changed a few things.
The beginning is the same as was before. Henry comes home after having spent the night somewhere else. When he comes home he finds the television switched on. He is surprised to see the television switched on as no one was in the house. He sits down and then starts listening to some messages that he plays on the answering machine. While he is listening to the second message he receives a text message from an unknown number telling him to look outside the window and after thinking for a few seconds, he does. He is shocked to see Ria standing outside, because he thought had killed her. He runs outside to see if she is there. He does not find her when he looks. He feels that he was probably just seeing things, but then Ria comes from behind as he walks back to the house and attacks him, and the shot ends as the title comes in. 

 

Surveys, Polls and Potential Audience

We carried out some online surveys and polls to get the views of audiences and their opinions and suggestions to our film and specifically the genre of our film. Since our group was supposed to have the same results from the surveys and polls, one of us had to make them. Therefore, Saad carried them out however all of us had made the questions. I have added the links of the surveys and polls to this post so that they might be viewed from my blog as well:

Links for surveys:

Survey 1

Survey 2

Links for polls:

Poll1

Poll 2

Poll 3

The Audience that we are targeting in our film are young people, both male and female. The age group we are targeting is from the age of 15 to 30 years old. Mostly males tend to watch slasher films because the female is the victim, but in our film the female is the killer so we believe that it will help us attract more females to watch our film. We have also used this age group for the potential audience of our film because we researched and found out that young people take more interest in watching such films than other age groups. We also found out that in such films young people are the main characters, either as the victims or as the killers. 

Trip to Mohatta Palace

On the 20 the of January, our Media class of A1's and A2's was taken to Mohatta Palace to see The Rising Tide exhibition. Being with Media classmates and friends, it was great fun, however, it was astonishing to see the awesome work by Pakistani artistes. Since art is not exactly something that I really pay attention to, it made it difficult for me to understand most of the work of different renowned Pakistani artistes. However, one of the art that I thought was creative and meaningful was The Flying Carpet by Abdullah Syed. He had made a small carpet (smaller then a real one) out of US Dollars and staple pins and it was hanging at one corner of the room where it was placed. The creative part was that the carpet seemed to have shapes in it that were either cut out or  left out and there were two spotlights from different angles shining at it. The two spot lights made two shadows at  the walls that were around it and each shadow had different shapes inside it which was really creative. I thought of posting an image as well to show his work:

A close view of both the shadows has some shapes in them. One has shapes of Minarets and such type of things, while the other has the shapes of guns and daggers and other types of weapons. The main art in this is the shapes made in the carpet and the perfect spot to place the spot lights for the right shadows. I have not seen art in this way before so I felt that it was a different way to show something rather than just painting it or sculpting it.
Abdullah Syed has basically made a point that money is used for good and bad. By using the US Dollar, he is depicting America, that is considered as the superpower at present. The flying carpet is a a mysterious effect in this art though, as there is no confirmation on what it would actually mean. I think that the flying carpet depicts the Arab countries and that being made out of US Dollars shows that America gets its wealth from the Arab countries and has used it and it uses the wealth for good purposes such as supporting religion and humanity etc. as well as bad purposes such as the making of weapons of mass destruction and other weapons.
The Flying Carpet as very creative in its own way, especially the way the artiste has depicted his thoughts. However, the art exhibition had other interesting paintings and other works of art. I am thankful to Miss. Fauzia, our media practical teacher, for arranging this trip for us. Despite the enjoyment that we experienced, the art gave me a broader view of media and showed me how Pakistani art is becoming popular and the artistes so creative. I hope to visit some other exhibition in the future.

This is our class with our media teacher, Miss. Fauzia, standing outside Mohatta Palace.














This is Mohatta Palace, where some magnificent works of art were displayed inside.

Kamran and Aarish's Prelim and JC LIVE Backdrop

I acted in this film for Kamran and Aarish's Prelim. Just thought I should put it up.

Kamran and I designed the backdrop for our school's "JC Live", a charity concert which has been organised by the school. The concert is on the 29th of January. We designed it on Adobe Photoshop using some pictures that the organizer gave us of our school band performing in a concert which was last year. I have posted the image of the backdrop that we designed.