Evalution Questions

Here is, my evaluation on my Advanced Portfolio, through the compulsory questions mentioned in the syllabus.

Ancillary Task: DigiPak

Our final product has been constructed. It was placed and edited in Adobe Photoshop CS6. It was rather than amusing task. Our teacher had given us a few lectures on operating this software, so this task was simply easy. Byzantium Records presents to you, last but not the least, it's final form of the DigiPak.

The template we had used. 

Feedback

We have posted our final work on Facebook and this is the feedback we've received. We've gotten both positive and negative criticism and it is clearly helping us give the right type and amount of final touches to our product.

Ancillary Task: Website

Ever since the introduction of Web 2.0, it's become tremendously easy for those with access to not just receive but share information too. This is so far the most developed and efficient period of ultimate exchange, and we've used it adequately to promote our Artist's exclusive new single. Posters, magazines and boulevards market a product just as beautifully, but no feedback is received at the back end at the end of day, so my group and I have generated a website using wix.com. It has a variety of templates available, the one we chose specifically focuses on our Artist and her work. Our host address is as follow. As being our Artist's producers and not managers, we believe it is more suitable to generate a website with a direct link to our Record Label Name in its host address. However, we had planned to use a close up image of the Artist, though of her looking away, so it gives off a natural vibe and to brand her beauty along her work just as beautiful. We had also planned to add a little comment box at the extreme end of the website for comments, and we have successfully achieved our goals of this task.

https://byzantiumrecords.wixsite.com/aurorarunaway

Post Production

As little as it seems, today we began a foremost task of Our Music Promotional Package, positioning our clips chronologically in Adobe Premiere Pro CC. It was a fairly challenging task as we had made quite a few distinctions from our storyboard.  My group members and I had begun the work in school and continued it on Skype.

Shoot Day 4

Today is the last day of our shoot that we’ve scheduled at our school. We’ve taken extra clips of our actress lip syncing just in case we’re short of some good content filling in remaining seconds of our video.  We also had to display a rainy day, we could’ve easily done that through Adobe After Effects, but it wouldn’t give off a raining effect on our subject, that’s why we had to generate synthetic rain in our school garden through a pipe. It was rather a amusing task. We also operated a Go Pro to capture a bird’s eye view of our actress.

Shoot Day 3

Shoot so far has been going smooth, we've been able to get beautiful shots, We've added picturesque shots of the scenery. It adds a cosmic element, it is suggestive that anyone can get lost in the alluring beauty of nature. It was once again a sunny day, so we followed the same pattern for the settings of the camera. Shah Allah Ditta was an under developed place, and this gave off a favorable less fabricated, synthetic vibe.

Shoot Day 2

Our Second day of shoot has been a tiring day, we've videotaped at Rawal Dam, but since there was no clean water there, we could not create the story we had planned in our storyboard, we had to make slight chances. We shot rest of the scenes sketched at the designated place and have planned to add a few more shots for her lip syncing,



Since our shoot was outside and there was a lot of natural light available, we used 30 and 18 to 140 mm lens with the camera settings at ISO 200 and f 1.8.

Shoot Day 1

 After checking the weather forecast plenty of times and waiting for one reasonably sunny day, we had planned to schedule our first day of shoot at F-9 park today on the 16th Feb 2017. All the planning was easily put forth into directions with the help of our storyboard and planning scheme which we kept on paper with us at all times. Today's shooting involved the child's scenes too, it was somewhat a sensitive task but we all managed to handle it quite remarkably. However, a few of scenes couldn't have been shot unfortunately, so we've left them for another day when our child star happens to be free.

Since it was a bright sunny morning, it deemed proper to set our camera at IOS 100 with f 1.8. We also used a 30 mm lens and happened to give us excellent results.

 A clip we've recorded while sitting in the trunk of the car using a stabilizer.

Location

We shortlisted four different locations to outline the different aspects of life revolving around in the character's head. We plan to show each location representing a a symbolic seasonal thought and how it takes a flight to another dimension accordingly. For instance, if she's in a location with bare trees which represent Autumn, symbolising emptiness and the hindrance of growth, she happens to recall a memory she clings onto her sleeve to escape her present. Similarly, if she's in an green area, she once again thinks of a memory, but this time her perception is different. She's happy right before she's about to give up. Each scene concludes to same tiredness and desperation to escape, but each place brings a slight impact on her perception. All the story adds up a great height of confusion, but you'll have to dig just as deep as our 'lost girl' to understand the story of her thoughts.

Here are few shots of our locations:

BYZANTIUM RECORDS

In a group meeting held today specially for the purpose of concluding a record label name. After putting our heads together at it for a couple of minutes, it popped into our heads, a person once said philosophy won't help us with Media anywhere, and there we had something, something just as adequate as to describe us and prove him wrong beautifully; Byzantium: A lost island.

So here we are, the Byzantium Records. 

Media Fest 2016-2017

While working for our project, we've across an inter school event; BMI Media Fest. It seems like a brilliant opportunity to put our talents on stage. Therefore, we've decided to take part in in the category "Public Advertisement." Our idea is simple as it focuses on the consequences of smoking, but we want to highlight the waste of money that could've helped someone worthy or in need of it. We bring on screen a young boy who begs for money, but our hero, refuses and decides to risk that cash on his health. Our word pitch is simple a it follows.
"We don't pay to save lives, but to destroy our own"

Our Storyboard

Cast

In constructing our Music Video, we've paid the most heat to our target audience, which is the teenage. To them, an appealing subject would be what they could possibly relate to, so we bring in limelight a tragic genre. This tragedy circulates around a teenage girl who is a victim of our own thoughts; and those fearful, frightening thoughts are triggered by the society and the role of a women in it. For the character of the lost girl we chosen Sabrina Khan, who seems to perfectly fit and excel at it and to play the younger version, we've chosen her very own little cousin, Michelle Khan.

Sabrina Khan