IF YOU LOVE FILMS YOU WILL LOVE THIS…

The Communications Department of the University of Nicosia will celebrate film making in Cyprus on Wednesday the 2nd of April at 7:00 p.m.  The upcoming screening will be in Cine Studio in association with the International Short Film Festival of Cyprus (ISFFC) and the Friends of Cinema Society.

The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus was launched in 2011 and is the official short films festival of Cyprus, organized by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Cyprus and the RIALTO Theatre. ISFFC aims to promote the art of cinema, presenting a variety of short films coming from Cyprus and around the world. Continue reading →

March 26, 2014 /  

A Christmas in the Middle East

In this article I am going to share with you something that has no relation to technology or design. This winter I had the opportunity to spend my holidays in the Middle east. I saw and felt traditions and culture much different from the ones we have in Europe.

I spent my holidays in one of the fastest developing countries in the world over the last few years- Qatar. The country is located in west Asia occupying the small Qatar Peninsula. The neighbor countries of Qatar are Bahrain, Iran, United Arab Emirates.

I spent  2 weeks there. 2 weeks for which I managed or at least  I tried to taste as much as I could from the Arabic world and culture. To be honest I didn’t know a lot about that country before I went there. I knew it is something like Dubai but a lot smaller. Well I was almost right about that. The city centre was like Hollywood for me. The giant buildings in American style, with all those fancy and shiny lights, and animations all over them managed to amaze me from the first day. Continue reading →

March 20, 2014 /  

One Billion Rising – UPCOMING!

Mediazone Volunteers consisting of staff, lab assistants and from our pool of casual volunteers were all at the Mall of Cyprus on Valentines Day for a very special cause!

1 Billion Rising  shares the message “Rise for justice” supporting women around the world.

Mediazone is working hard to produce the video that documented a coordinated effort in the form of dance! Stay tuned to watch it all here on our blog!

In the meantime take a look at Mediazone in action!

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March 13, 2014 /  

Leave Color Effect

Last year I had a project on a course called Theory and Practice of Cinema. The lecturer wanted us to write a script and create a short film 5 to 10 minutes. At the beginning I had difficulties finding a topic, but with the help of the lecturer I decided to make a short film about me having trouble finding ideas for the project. Obviously it was a comedy, at least I tried. The way I thought that the flow of the story was going to be, was me talking to the camera saying what were the difficulties I faced and what were the Ideas I was changing all the time because of these difficulties. I have done the script and the production and the last step was the editing. I was trying to find effects that will help me keep the interest of the viewers so they won’t get bored. Looking around YouTube I found out an effect called ‘Leave Color Effect’ (Adobe Premiere Effect). This effect allows you to choose which colour you want on your video or picture and then makes all the others black and white. Most people refer to this effect as ‘The Sin City Effect’ because of the constant use of it at the actual Hollywood movie. This effect makes you focus on one colour of your screen showing you what is important on this image/video and what not. The way I wanted this effect to work in my case was similar to the sin city movie, keeping the interest of the viewers with a cool, unusual and amazing effect that everyone will wonder how this effect was added to the film. Well, to help some of you who want to use this effect I created a tutorial with Camtasia Studio 8. Hope you like it.

Andreas Papatheodoulou – TV / Audio  MZ Lab Assistant

March 6, 2014 /