Logo Design Re-Make

I have decided to revamp my logo. My past logo did not have much meaning to it and did not really explain much. I needed a slogan, and better visuals.

First, I found an action board clip art, as it links in with media. I then thought it would be a good idea to add some type of film roll in there just to complete the whole "film" theme. Also, I made the slogan "Through A Camera Lens". This slogan could mean that people are not really aware of the processes that films are made, all they see is the result. The subject media is basically the process. I decided to place the slogan at the bottom as it is sort of "continuing" from the title.  My company name is "TA" and so I thought that would fit perfectly right above the slogan and next to the film roll. TA stands for the first two letters of my last name. In addition, I also thought it would be right to add a light shadow at the bottom, as it gives an effect of spotlight. A spotlight is used when the focus should be on one specific person or object or in other words, Fame. 

Cashew Nut Project

Our new project is to make a character out of cashew nut. We had to describe the cashew nut as it's a human, we had some questions for our cashew nuts and we had to answer them by lookin at our cashew nuts.

The questions are:

1) How did it get the marking it has? 

2) Is it damaged or in a good shape? 

3) Why is it the size it is? 

4) How old is it? 

5) Is it poor or rich? 

6) Where is it from? 

7) Is it male or female? 

8) What kind of house does it live in? 

9) What kind of Job does it have? 

10) What does it do for fun? 

11) What kind of personality does it have? 

12) Name

13) Family

14) Habbit

15) Greatest wish or need

16) Greatest fear

I had to keep on looking at my cashew nut to be able to answer the questions.

These are my answers.

After we had finished making our notes we shared our characters, then we had to choose a partner to work with for the characters we have created. 

I'm working with Ashely, she's a drug dealer and she ran away from her house. I chose her, because I thought that Ayaman and Ashely will be a perfect match, because Ayaman is strong and he can help Ashely to better a better person by falling in love with her.  

Me and my partner had to go and make up an opening story. 

These are our notes that we (me and my partner) made.

It was difficult to create a character from a cashew nut, but if you look at it as a human not as a cashew nut, you can easily describe it as a person. 

Logo Design

I had to design a logo for my company. 

This is my logo design. I made it as a circle because I always have this quote in my mind which is " What goes around comes back around ". In my circle I have lots of blues, that's because blue is my favorite color, my happiness color and my  success color.

 The reason why melon is on my logo, is because I'm a person who loves watermelon and as soon as I eat watermelon without doing anything, I don't think about anything except how good is this watermelon. However, when I'm doing something and I need to think I eat watermelon, because I feel like it helps me to think more. 

I have TA on top, because I wanted to include some parts of my name in my logo and it's my company, that's why it's on the top. TA is the first two letters from my last name. 

Napoleon Dynamite Project

For the past couple of weeks we have been working kn filming and re-creating our version of the opening. We had to analysis the actual video, we had to watch it four times. The first time we are not allowed to make any notes, after the first watch, we are allowed to make notes and we will have a bit of time after each time we watch the video to me notes. After we watched for four times we had to make a storyboard related to each shot.

As a group we decided to do an opening that represented a girl in the Middle East, specially from Qatar, because we live in Qatar and we know about this country more than the other Middle Easten countries. The video was called International Students in the Middle East.

After we had finished making our storyboard, we had to choose ten shots and five compulsory opening credits. I never knew that there was compulsory credits and that it had to be in order, that was a new thing to learn and it was helpful. 

The first point of view shot was an iPhone. We had to slide the lock screen to unlock it and then there was a picture that was about the production company. 

Our production company was called ARALA, because ARALA is an acronym of the first letters of each of the members in the group. We chose an iPhone, because most Qataris have iPhones. The iPhone screen we used for our shot was cracked, because Qataris do not care if anything happens go their phone, because they can always buy a new one. 

I was really proud of the team. We managed to bring all the props that we needed in time, and we managed to sort things out as a group. Also, I was proud of the lighting, because it gave the props a really nice effect. 

This is an example of how the light gave a different effect to our background.

We struggled with the focus of the camera, because we had small props and it kept focusing on the background. We had to make some of the props bigger to make the focus clearer. 

For example, this makeup brush was small for the camera to focus on and it refused to focus on the brush,we had to change it to another bigger prop. Some of the props we could not change through, because we could not find any better prop for the shot. For example we had a shot that was about dates and the dates were small, we could not find anything else to replace the dates. 

What surprised me is how long we took to film one shot. Also, the camera video we had to hse a make-shift rig and it shocked me how serious it was. No one was allowed to remove it so we did not lose our angle.  

We tested the camera and the focus before we started filming anything. 

In future, it will be important to remember to focus the camera, carefully as that was one of the main troubles we faced. 

We also have to finish/start filming before time so we could have more time with editing, because editing takes time more than anyone excepts. 

Overall, for the future, I should remember to manage my time and to keep my blog updated. Also, I need to keep on taking photos of the process to allow me to document the process clearly.

https://youtu.be/hjrUcsAbn2o this is our video.

Why Our Media Homework Is The Best

Best thing about our media homework is to watch movies. I'm a girl who really enjoys watching movies and do not mind watching movies all day. 

This is the type of movie nights i really love. 

Specially when I have soft drinks, ice-cream, snacks and pizza around me. Come on, who would not love to do that all day? Well... Some girls would not because they think they will get fat. I really don't mind my body shape or my weight, as long as I'm happy and I have food to eat. 

Lego Metaphor

For this project, we had to make a Lego piece representing ourselves. I decided to make this one, this would represent me because at the beginning of my medIa course I thought I can get away with it. That's why had a small space before my red block, but as the weeks passed I started to struggle and I saw that there is many directions. The green block is the how I think I will be at the end of the year in media. I'm already improving in media. Hopefully I will reach to the green block. 

Double Lesson - Dice

I enjoyed our last double lesson because we learned something new. As a class we decided on the plot of a film. Each student had one die, then we had to choose a number, the numbers were from one to ten. One of the students chose the number one and he/she was the director responsible for choosing the settings and genre of the film. Starting at number two, each student had to roll the die and make the story according to the picutre on it, each part of the story had to make sense and fit the setting and the genre. The following number had continue the story and so on. I learned to use my imagination and stick to the same story to the same story that we started with. I think what we learned in the lesson will help us in the upcoming tasks such as movie making, movie opening and directing. It was difficult to remember the beginning of the story and the genre, maybe in the future and with lots of practice it won't be that hard. I surely enjoyed this lesson and I can't wait to docit again.

These are the dices that we used

Dukhan State Of Mind

For the last two weeks we were watching Jay-Z and Alicia Keys ' music video Empire State Of Mind'.  However after watching the original video multiple times, we analyzed a parody of 'Newport State Of Mind'. It was a new experience as I did not know what a parody was. The parody is a funnier version of a original video. 

Our task was to make a storyboard of our own parody version related to 'Empire State Of Mind' but we had to choose a part of the scene. Our group had three people which are Sublah,Mahmud and myself. We thought of places in Dukhan that was related to the part that we choose from the video. We choose the last thirty seconds. We had to fill at least nine boxes . 

This is our storyboard.

Snapshot After Reediting

https://youtu.be/ylvrofuiGfA

I reedited my video. 

I had couple of mistakes in my past video which are, some of my clips was landscape I had to change it to portrait. This will help the audience to watch the video straight without turning their heads. 

I also made a mistake in the texts that I enterd. Some the texts were going into the other clip, it would not let the audience read the texts clearly. I left small spaces between each clip for the text. Now the the audience won't have trouble reading my texts. 

 

Snapshot

https://youtu.be/RWlZ1ltO6AY

We had to make a video about ourselves for 1-2 minutes. We had the choice to be in the video but I used my friends instead. However, there is few videos that i’m in. 
I decided to do this video about what i enjoy to do, what I love and what I do with my friends. 
I made mistakes in this video, but I will reedit the video again.

Visual Presentation

I choose 10 pictures that are not that obvious about myself because I want people to think about who am I and I want to see what impression they have about my presentation. We were told that we are not allowed to be in the pictures and it could be from the internet or taken by us. I took all the pictures from the Internet.