Sunday, May 17, 2009

How To Become A FCM (Faculty Of Creative Multimedia) Student

How To Become A FCM (Faculty Of Creative Multimedia) Student

Creative Multimedia is a two different meaning words that combined together and become a single meaning that is more powerful and more commercial . Creative means that the ability to think differently or to produce a new or a better product than the existing one . Multimedia means the media and content that utilizes a combination of various different content forms such as video , sound , animation and more . The faculty of Creative Multimedia integrates academic study with extensive creative digital technology production work . In the Faculty of Creative Multimedia , there is 5 majoring that one can choose from that is Film & Animation(FA) , Media Innovation(MI) , Digital Media(DM) , Interface Design(ID) and also Virtual Reality(VR) .

As the preparation to become a FCM student , one should have be prepared mentally and physically to walk the journey as a FCM student . Some outside world people will look us as the weird one or maybe the crazy one but that is what will make us become more strong and succeed in the future later . There is a few factors that we have taken count as the factors that one should have to becoming a FCM student . Examples of the factors are friends and family , mind , money , time and entertainment .

Let us start with the most important factors that someone really need to become a FCM student that is the MIND . FCM student need not only a strong mind but to be creative as much as he or she can . A FCM student need a very strong and creative mind so that they could survive in the working society when they are graduate later in the future . They must be ready to accept rejection of ideas and thoughts because creativity is a very subjective matter that everyone has their own perspective view on it . They shouldn’t give up easily and the mind has to be set and alert all the time . Rejections and critiques has to taken as a motivation so that they can learn from the mistake and learn not to commit the same mistake anymore . Besides that , FCM student has to have a creative mind so that their ideas and end products will stand out from the others . Creativity in this term means FCM student need to have the courage to do and think something that is different and be able to produce a quality product later on .

The next factor is the time factor . As a FCM student , they have to be aware that time is always the problem for them to submitting their assignments and tasks . So , in this case , it is clearly seen that time management is very important for a FCM student to know their time and being able to submit their assignment on time . It is normal to sacrifice time with their friends and family because it is their responsibility as a student and they must be ready to face all those situation that will happen . Besides that , a good time management will make sure the student are able to experience the real working scenario so that they are well prepared before they graduate and enter the working world later on .

Entertainment is one the factors that a FCM student should have in them . Entertainment her e means that the element of the entertainment that a FCM student should have such as loving animations and graphics and most importantly they really have the passion on this field . Without the passion and love for this course , certainly the person will never enjoy the process of the learning and it will be a waste of time . Knowledge and experience about those software and about media are more focused because it is one of the factor that can lead to a better FCM student .

One should have the passion on animation and multimedia

Money is also one of the factors that is needed by someone to become a FCM student . Money here means that one should learn to save and manage their money well . In FCM , most of the assignments will need their students to do printings and also different kinds of submission for their assignments and here is where the money factors is counted . Besides that , as FCM student , there is also a few gadgets that they should have such as a DSLR camera that certainly not cheap at the moment . They have to learn to save and manage their financial well so that they will not faced any problem later on . It is a good start for a FCM student as they will learn to manage their money well and in the future later on , they will learn to spend wisely .

Money management is one the important factors

Friends and family is the last factors that FCM student should be aware with . As time passed by , they will learn to know their friends personality and good with bad times will go with the flow . Jealous , backstab , hate and hypocrite will happen and they have to used their maturity to judge and learn to choose a good friend . Times with the family will become lesser and they will have to bear with it because it is their responsibility to excel in their studies .

Backstab

In the conclusion , to become a FCM student is not that hard but certainly there must be the passion and courage to become a FCM student and they have to fulfill the criteria and the factors that have been mentioned above .

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This is the original essay

Monday, May 11, 2009

sketches

As you all can see, these are our sketches for the design statement-''unlock your destiny''. Here we done a lot of sketches to define the design statement.





Final output of assignment

FINALLY~!!!!! This is our final output of this assignment. We decide to do 3 canvas of painting to define and show our design statement which is “UNLOCK YOUR DESTINY”. Each canvas show one meaning which are theory, practice and practical. Below is the photo of our canvas, enjoy...=).Based on our long essay that tells out basically how to become a FCM student



The process


And The Final Output

The Thinking


The Practice


The Pratical
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Basically this 3 canvas tells the audience that what it takes to become a FCM student and at the path that we will go through

Scary Cat

Last week, we were given a task to draw a scary image or picture that will instill fear among people trough out the ages. The drawing Images must be a part of the cat or kitten body , such as the eye , claw , nail , ears and others. Its all depends to ourselves which part is we think that is scary the most.

I turn this …….



into this.........


Poem

Mr Radzi give us another activity that is to combine two words to make up a phrase...Ok..the first task is to combine Love and Chilli.


+

And this is the phrase i come out with

Your CHILLI red lips make me feel hot and i LOVE it
I LOVE being CHILLIED by your sexy body


Next is to combine SPORT CAR and LIFE

+Life

And this is what i come out with :

The headlight of your sexy car flashing up my life
You are the only person that i like
Turn to left and turn to right
I will give you all my life


And the last one was a bit funny where we are to asked to create a new phrase by using Garbage and Woman ( for male students and vice versa for female students)

+Woman

And this is i come out with :

Woman are like garbage
Stinks like sewage
And rots like cabbage...

Hahaha...no hard feeling to all woman in the world okay..it is just for education purpose..and this is for Creative Studies class...where creative is everywhere and there will be no wrong in it...

^_^

PEACE

Juxtaposition

After we learned about juxtaposition,as usual our lecturer gave us a task about juxtaposition.The requirement are....first,pick 3 sets of number between 0 to 99...next,match the numbers with the sets of objects given..then,build a sentence for the combination...lastly,draw that combinations to describe the juxtaposition.Below are the sets of objects given...

Set 1
1. Flower
2. Lightning
3. Ice
4. Light
5. Fire
6. Duck
7. Dog

8. Oil
9. Leaf

0. Fly

Set 2
0. Head

9. Rain
8. Wood

7. Tree
6. Spider
5. Root
4. Mountain
3. Wind
2. Rock
1. Water

And the lucky numbers
are:
54- Fire Mountain
67- Duck Tree

19- Flower Rain

The sentences....
Fire Mountain - The captain asks his squad to fire the enemy camp that located on the mountain
Duck Tree - Oh God...how come that
duck can lives on the tree?.
Flower Rain - The rose flower is wet because of rain.

And these are the drawing


Fire Mountain



Duck Tree



Flower Rain

From dictionary.com...the definition of juxtaposition is an act or instance of placing close together or side by side, especially for comparison or contrast and the state of being close together or side by side.

Juxtaposition is a new word for me.But after I learned about it, I can say that juxtaposition is combination of two elements/objects/sub
jects that not related each other yet can produce something creative and great to see.

Here are examples of juxtaposition....






Devil Me

For the class activity about mindmap,lecturer asked us to create mindmap about our DARKSIDE..hehehehe(devil laugh).And this is my evil personality....



From dictionary.com...mindmap means a diagram used to represent ideas or information branching from a central key word or idea
and used as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.There are 2 types of mind map....LOGICAL mindmap and ASSOCIATED mindmap.Logical mindmap is where all the words or informations through the links are connected to the main topic.Associated mindmap is where the main topic evolves as many random words as it can.Sometimes the words dont have any connection with main topic but the good point is we can think and create new 'crazy' connection between the random words and the main topic.For me,mindmap is good learning plan and we can see how our brain works through the paper.It is also an effective way to study difficult stuffs rather than reading a book with thousands of words.These are examples of mindmap...





Bill Gates



This is what the picture looks alike in metaphors if you ask me to describe Bill Gates.

Avatar

After lecture class,we got an exciting activity from our lecturer.The rule is simple...get your partner and asked 10 questions to him/her.After that,we must draw logo/symbol of your partner based on his/her answers.I choose my friend,Wafi to became my partner and the questions are...

1) What is your favorite TV show?
program with military and combat scenes


2) What are your favorite color?
blue and white

3) What are your hobby?
movies...games....painting

4) Your zodiac?

Leo

5) What time do you sleep?
2 a.m.

6) Your favorite film genre?
action


7)How many siblings do you have?
6 and I'm second last

8) Are you talkative?
not really

9)Which one do you prefer...image or text?
image

10) Are you staying in the city/village?
City(Damansara)

And for the symbol/logo,I'm not taking all the answers to draw..I only use 3 or 4 answers given and this is WAFI's logo done by me...And the result is....



Novelty, Innovation, Invention

Novelty

According to http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelty, the meaning of novelty is something new or unusual, the quality or state of being novel : newness, a small manufactured article intended mainly for personal or household adornment —usually used in plural and something (as a song or food item) that provides often fleeting amusement and is often based on a
theme —often used attributively.

In my mind, novelty means something new which create my human. Below are some picture which make us understand more about novelty.


This is light



Pendrive

Innovation

According to http://www.answers.com/topic/innovation, the meaning of innovation is the act of introducing something new or something newly introduced. In marketing dictionary, innovation means Product, service, or idea that is perceived by consumers as new. There are differing magnitudes of innovation. Adding bran to an established brand of breakfast cereal is considered a continuous innovation in that it constitutes a small change to an existing product with little market impact, as opposed to discontinuous innovations like the personal computer, which caused great societal impact. The public outcry against the "new" Coca-Cola belied the relatively small continuous innovation that it was. An innovative strategy uses continuous innovation to stay one step ahead of the competition.


My personal thought for innovation is market had introduce something that new and fresh to the user. Below are some pictures.

Hot_cool wet towel maker

Octopus-studios-silverfish-aquarium

i-bear mp3 player

Invention

The meaning of invention is new scientific or technical idea, and the means of its embodiment or accomplishment. To be patentable, an invention must be novel, have utility, and be non-obvious. To be called an invention, an idea only needs to be proven as workable. But to be called an innovation, it must also be replicable at an economical cost, and must satisfy a specific need. That's why only a few inventions lead to innovations because not all of them are economically feasible.

In my mind, invention is some new process or idea coming from some place such as book.



Bed

OMG!!..

The cute one..

Haha...is easy for us


Creative and Creativity

CREATIVE

Creative is the ability to create. Imaginative, innovative, artistic. Characterized by being original or new. Formed by a new process. Having the ability to create. Designed to stimulate the imagination.

Creative Thinking
''Specific thought processes which improve the ability to be creative. Being in an optimal state of mind for generating new ideas. To think deliberately in ways that improve the likelihood of new thoughts occurring. To maximize the ability of the brain to think of new ideas. The ability to think of original, diverse and elaborate ideas. A series of mental actions which produce changes and developments of thought. The process of exploring multiple avenues of actions or thoughts.''

( Quoted from http://www.brainstorming.co.uk/tutorials/definitions.html )

here are some examples.




From this picture, what we can see is he is hang up by the ceiling but actually he is lying on the chair.



The designer is trying to use smoke represent the coffee is hot and by the same time he giving an introduction



Apple USB in future~

CREATIVITY

Creativity is marked by the ability or power to create to bring into existence, to invest with a new form, to produce through imaginative skill, to make or bring into existence something new. Human beings are creative animals. So we can think various of creative ways to create something new and we use to apply it with different purpose such as creating logo, typography, advertisement, etc.

Nowadays, english alphabet is not only for using on communicating with other people. It can also use in decorating or other design. In this post I showcase a number of creative ways to display the English alphabet. Some fascinating works of art. Let us see how creativity they are.



Type in the sky alphabet

The hairy Futura typeface



Human crafted typeface



The alphabet in light writing