Media Studies: Opening titles - Final - screen shots

Rejected Logo for our final film

As we decided the production name for our film to be AFAS which was the first letters of our intials:
A- Arif
F- Fatmah
A- Arika
S- Sama
 We decided the shape of our logo to be a rectangle where each corner of the rectange shows one of us each group member. This was to develop the idea that we are as united and  important for each other as the 4 corners are for the rectange to stay in shape. The colour combination gives the idea of a colour fliud movement which actually indicates the transfer of ideas of one of us to another.

From the basic shapes in Adobe Illustrator, to adding filters and blending colors in it, this was the final shape we chose was :

We decided that on a black screen this logo would appear on the screen rotating then the text showing the name of our production would appear which would fade out and this logo will go rotating the other way, similar to the way it came on the screen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-563zJtvew&feature=player_embedded

The duration of this clip is 5 seconds. To make it look more professional, we used a lens flare effect moving on two sides forming an L. This showed that the logo shines after stopping due to the light. 

Budget and softwares used

These are some of the Softwares we used and the estimated cost we encountered.

S.No	List OF requirements	Cost per object	Number of objects	Total cost/Rs	Use
1	Mini  DV	300	2	600	For the Handy cam
2	DVD  - R	100	1	100	To keep backup of final and preliminary video
3	Photocopy of Questionnaire	2	250	500	For the questionnaire’s to be distributed amongst the students
	Total Cost			1200

List of equipments and software’s used

Adobe after effects CS4

Sony Vegas Pro 9.0

Adobe Premier CS4

Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator

Canon SD1200 10 MP camera

Tripod

JVC handy cam SD

Garage band

Xilisoft Media converter

Schedule

1:00 PM	:00	Reach at Arif’s house .
	:15	Set his room for the shoot.
	:30	-
	:45	-
2:00 PM	:00	Discuss the mise en scene.
	:15	-
	:30	-
	:45	Discuss the shots to be taken.
3:00 PM	:00	-
	:15	-
	:30	Set the camera and tripod.
	:45	-
4:00 PM	:00	Begin the shoot -
	:15	First shot should be finished in 15 minutes. (alarm clock)
	:30	Shower and bathroom scene
	:45	Mirror scene
5:00 PM	:00	Cupboard scene
	:15	End mirror scene
	:30	BREAK
	:45	-
6:00 PM	:00	Flash back shots – computer scene
	:15	Fired scene
	:30	Look at all the shots if anything is missing or we need more material, take extra shots.
	:45	-
7:00 PM	:00	Wrap up
	:15	Leave Arif’s house.
	:30
	:45

This was the schedule we followed , so we can have raw shots and can edit them and come up with a solution of what more shots we need . We did this in a hurry so we will have time for corrections and any changes if required

First attempt for our Final Movie.

We had a script in mind that there will be a girl who will wake up late for her school and will get ready in a hurry in a haphazardly and a funny manner. We decided to choose a morning routine because of some reasons:

1.       We went through many opening title videos on youtube and noticed that mostly the successful movies show the morning routine in the opening , atleast the types of movies we considered.

1.      2. Our age group usually gets late in the morning , and it would seem realistic. 

3.3. It would be termed in the Genre Drama , which would help solve the Suspense and Comedy dispute that arose in our group indirectly.

 4.All of us mutually agreed on this one, without other suggesting it as a suitable idea

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dThe shots were all taken but they were on a Tape and could not be edited that we decided to change the location and the characters. We then decided to make a movie about a boy who is lazy and is a looser at everything he does. The location would now change as now we needed a boys room.
the mind map we did is as follows:

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The story board for our film was as follows:

The location we decided for our film was a room with very limited furniture.

The first attempt for our movie produced the result

Personalizing my Blog

Today i decided to personalize my blog.
A friend of mine , has a very good collection of Camera's , i made him hold it and i took the picture in such a way that it would come on the side of the blog text and the text would seem like it is coming from it.
When i uploaded the picture it didn't turn out the way i expected it to be.

My blog at the moment , looks like this:

A close up view of the blog on 7th January 2011

Other possible pictures i had considered as a background were;

After i was done with  the background, i used Abobe Photoshop Cs2 to make a heading for my blog. I decided to use the Photoshop to put in the text in it , instead of typing the  text through the blog.

Background for the Heading

I came up the the Background above by experimenting with the shade of Blue and pink as the background of my blog background picture was blue so i decided to use the same blue mixing with the shade of pink to give a soft look.

Then i added text inserting a new layer , i changed the glow and shadow and texture of the font and it gave a satisfactory look.

Applying affects to the text

The header with the text.

When i resized it according to the blog requirement, it looked a bit different then my expectations.