Zuha Imman A2 blog

  Film production companies use their logos to tell audience about their filmmaking identity . The icons, colors, and typefaces they choose can brand themselves as indie or big budget, or denote a specific genre or filmmaking style. As a producer it was my role to ensure that the logo we were making should represent our identity as a production house and that is why Aiman and I decided to add our name's initials in the logo. We used canve for making few logos, and drafted three logos; In the end we like this one better and plan to use it for our final music video.

  After a year-long hiatus, we finally resumed shooting, but as a perfectionist, I found it challenging to capture the perfect shot. Despite mostly indoor settings, we managed to get some good footage. However, for the outdoor scenes, we faced a dilemma. By the time we got to shooting, the sun had already set, and the atmosphere didn't match the vibe we wanted for our music video. Although we managed to take some outdoor shots, they probably won't make the final cut because they lack the level of perfectionism we aim for. Shooting Haya's performance on the road was particularly challenging due to the constant stream of people passing by, making it difficult to get a clear shot without anyone in the background.

 Simultaneously with shoot we captured few pictures for our promotional package. We captured artist's solo pictures at every set so we may have a variety to choose from while making our digi pack. These are few of the pictures :

  Arranging the set was my favorite part during shooting ,as a producer it was also my part during the shot to make sure that everything was there and looked good in the camera. Aiman did the misesnscene arrangements with me.  During solo shots both of us worked together behind the camera , here I am holding the light and Aiman is working with the camera. This is the beauty of duo team work that you share roles whenever feeling comfortable.

  Couldn't make time lapse for outdoor shots as we were trying multiple spots on the same  according to the Golden hour lightning in camera so that rapid moments could not be captured. However we used Child walker to bring stability in our orbiting shot in the dark room, this creative idea helped us achieve an amazing shot.

 Music promotion is the main goal for our project, so we have to plan and start working on it beforehand. Firstly we have to make a social media page for the artists promotion. Haya s the artist and we are planning to make an instagram page for her song- RIBS. We will follow promotional strategies like I will make pre release posters and easers on the insta page to anticipate the curiosity among people regarding the release of music video. Due to the privacy concerns most probably we will keep the instagram page private .The behind the scenes would be posted before hand to keep our limited followers hooked up to the release of the music video. This would be a promotional strategy followed before the distribution of the music video. Through posts regarding artist we can attract more audience by reels and share links on stories  for more audience.

 Today was the first day of our shoot after ages of planning. We went to Aiman's house and had two indoor locations. One was Aiman's house other was a different aesthetic apartment few minutes drive from her house.  We shot first few scenes ; The first few scenes of black room with depressed lights were shot.  These are few BTS of  our this scene We took multiple closeups and mid closeups and took a whole performance video. Red Light was suiting  greatly the depressive and melancholic effect which we want for our Music Video (MV). We also shot few outdoor shot of Flashback of both friends coming back from school, as Young kids. playing. Because Aiman was acting so we had to collaborate after saying cut. Explaining  each other the shot sequence, moving accordingly the storyboard. This was a successful day, hoping the same for upcoming shooting days.

  It was a meeting where both of us discussed availability of props on our set. These props included different customs for haya as its a music video and we have to shoot multiple scenes showing a timelapse of one friend missing the other. As they grew up and departed. We discussed how different aesthetics would match ambience of the scene. For example the depressed  scenes, with dark clothes on and the scenes where both of the friends are together with colorful and bright clothes. This prop and custom planning was already done but we had to make it more perfect.