!! CG3 Flash assignment !!

In this assignment, I use Adobe Flash to create my dynamic poster.

1) In the very beginning, I move the map of Malaysia and use fade out effect on it.

I move this by using simple classic tween.

about the fade out effect, I adjust the Alpha level of the image to zero.

And then add a classic tween.

2) Both Malaysia map combine together.

 

First, it's just a simple tween also.

The transition, I use 3 frames and combine to make it looks like blur transition.

3) Rope that tie up Malaysia.

Again, it's just a simple classic tween that make the rope move. But due to some technical error, I have to divide them into more frames.

4) It's a hand grabbing the rope.

In this scene, there's just normal classic tween being used.

And finally, the poster is created!!

I added some words in the poster, which is "We Are One". So the final poster is in this way.

Last but not least, here's the full animation of my dynamic poster:

!!!! Final Assignment !!!! (Video)

We create a video as our final work. We choose one of our ideas as the main theme, which is "The message brought by a movie is indestructable as the movie will spread generation by generation".

!!! Final assignment !!! (idea generating)

Next step is idea generating. We use random word image to generate our ideas. We use 3 words to generate our ideas.

Sexy Lady

Diamond

Love

We choose 2 of our ideas and sketch out.
The first one is "We might not able to understand a movie when we watch but we will definitely understand it slowly."

Next is "The message brought by a movie is indestructible as  movie will spread generation by generation."

!! Final assignment !! (Essay)

The next step is the essay of the element that we choose. Since our choice is movie, so we write an essay about movie.

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We had been given a task to search information about Creative Multimedia. Since we are unable to get any definition about Creative Multimedia, we search creative and multimedia separately. According to Wikipedia, creative is referring to materials, imagery, or collateral prescriptively produced through creativity and the creative process, and multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms include a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms. So it can be concluded that Creative Multimedia means the ability to produce the media uses a combination of text, audio, images, animation video and interactivity content forms through creativity.

                So we search about creative multimedia. It really includes lots of elements. After the discussion we made, we decided to choose movie as our title. As we know, movie is part of the entertainment, and nowadays most of the entertainment related to multimedia. Movie is actually the informal word for “film”.  It is a sequence of photographs projected onto a screen with sufficient rapidly as to create the illusion of motion and continuity. It is produce by recording images with cameras, or creating images using animation techniques. It is also a connected cinematic narrative represented in this form.

               In most of the movies nowadays, special effects are being used to enhance the greatness of movies, and of course, special effects are done with creative multimedia. Special effects consist of visual effects and sound effects. Visual effect is the various processes by which imagery is created and/or manipulated outside the context of a live action shoot. Visual effects often involve the integration of live-action footage and computer generated imagery in order to create environments which look realistic, but would be dangerous, costly, or simply impossible to capture on film. The use of visual effects has become increasingly common in high-budget films, and has also recently become accessible to the amateur filmmaker with the introduction of affordable and simpler animation and compositing software. Of course some skills and talents are needed to create nice visual effects.

                On the other hand, sound effect, or audio effect is the sound that created artificially, or the sound that had been emphasized for movies. In a movie, sound effects are sound that recorded and presented to make specific feeling in certain point without the use of dialogue or music. Dialogue, music and sound effects recordings are treated as separate elements in professional movie production. Dialogue and music never referred to as sound effects, but the process applied to the often are called sound effects, such as reverberation or flanging effects.

                Some of the movies are created in animations. Computer animation is a process of creating moving images with computers. It is actually a lot of still images that are similar but slightly advanced in the time domain, and display repeatedly. This technique is just how the television and cartoon movies work. For 3D animations, the objects are built on computer, and the 3D figures are rigged with virtual skeleton, and all frames must be rendered after modeling is complete.  For 2D animations, separate objects and many transparent layers are used.

                After telling about some of the techniques and elements use in movies, we also did some research on movie device. As we can see from here, movie devices are used to let the audience enjoy the movies through the device. Online movie device, such as Youtube, Veoh TV, Dailymotion and so on, able to display the movies to let the audience watch. These movie devices download the movies temporary, and the audience can watch the online streaming movies. The online movie devices are good to use as they are free of charge, easy to use, and many choices. Of course, the increase of the use of online movie device might bring destroying the film industry.

                Besides online movie device, we also found that electronic movie devices are greater than online movie devices. Electronic movie devices such as film projector, monitor, television, amplifier and etc somehow able to give the audience enjoy one movie to the max. The greatest enjoy while watching movies is able to watch a high quality movie in a big screen with nice audio device. To fully use the electronic devices, the customers have to buy DVD to enjoy the movies. However this doesn’t mean that it’ll save the film industry as there are lots of pirated DVD around the world.

                There are lot more things about movies. Movies are an incredible media which are able to tell stories, bring information, communicate and entertain others. Movies industry is also a business, such as Hollywood, doing movie or film business. All in all, movie is a great element in creative multimedia that will bring entertainment, satisfaction and information to the audience..

*reference - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/

                 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

! Final assignment ! (Mind Map)

So this is the final assignment of Creative Studies. It's a group project, and my group member is Liu Xiao. What we should do? First, search for information and create a mind map for Creative Multimedia. This is our mind map:

 

Can't see clearly? Well, below got zoom version.

 

 These are the points me and Liu Xiao think about.

 

After Creative Multimedia, we have to choose one of elements that related with creative multimedia and do another mind map which more focus on it. After some discussion made, we decide to choose movie. Here's the focus mind map:

Again, there'll be zoom version below...

Laugh out loud??

“ONGYUIHUANISCOOL”

From the words above, I believe everyone can see the message I want to bring that clearly, which is "Ong Yui Huan is cool". Of course, Ong Yui Huan is me, and I am saying that I am cool. Why I suddenly write about that? It's easy, what to do is do what I state here.

First, go to my blog archive.
Then, display all post title like this.

After that, see the first letter of all the titles.

Tada~ So from all of my post, it's stated that I am cool!! XD

Other random words image

In this class, I had been introduce random words image, and Mr Radzi assigned on task for us, which is create a scary image or object which will bring fear to people, and the random subject is a kitten.

These are the only things I can imagine...

Oh my god it's great!

These are my good friend's work on design fundamental. It's just pure greatness. Her work is flat, nice and clean, and the colour matches are very interesting. I personally like the green one very much. Again, I just want to say, her work is just pure greatness!

Creating Juxtaposition

Mr Radzi told us more about juxtaposition and give us some tasks on juxtaposition.

So, it's about Juxtaposition

From the lecture notes, Juxtaposition is synonymous with contrast, 2 objects or texts that oppose one another. Contrast is often overtly marked by markers, such as:
- It's raining, but I am not taking an umbrella .
The guy knows well about it's going to be raining, but didn't go prepare for it. Here shows the relationship of comparing something similar, yet different, that is believed to be typical of contrastive relations.

There's still another type of Juxtaposition, which is random Juxtaposition that refers to the stimulation of creativity in problem solving, design or other creative pursuit by confronting two unrelated concepts or objects, usually the goal or problem to be solved on the one hand and a randomly selected object or concept on the other. Similar to an oxymoron. For example, the juxtaposition of ‘cigarette po soap’ gave rise to the idea of putting flower seeds in the butts of cigarette so that man would beautify the surroundings with his waste instead of messing them up.

*reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_juxtaposition
                  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_(linguistics)

Inception, Greatest movie of the year

When I checking the movie list, I thought Iron Man 2 would be greatest movie in this year, although it turns out to be disappointing. But it's not over yet! Just today, I watched a very great and interesting movie, Inception! What is it great about? The ideas and the action and the emotion... Just everything is great!!

The story is about Cobb, an "extractor", who enters the dreams of others to obtain information that is otherwise inaccessible^. His abilities and questions about the death of his wife have cost him his family and his nationality, but he is promised a chance to regain his old life in exchange for planting an idea in a corporate target's mind. This process of planting an idea, known as "inception", is less familiar and far more difficult than Cobb's usual job of "extraction". (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception_%28film%29)

I like the idea, which is about dreams. Most of the time is they enter the subconscious of a target and extract information from him/her. What special is most of the actions happen in dreams, the heroes enemies are not the subject nor the other guy, it's the defense mode in the target's subconscious, which are shown with a group of people with firearms. And the ending is one of the best part of the movie. It didn't clearly state how's the ending and make most of the audience will talk about it when get out from the cinema. Not intend to create spoiler so didn't state here.

All in all, I like this movie very much.

Not an ordinary Mortar and Pestle

In class, Mr Radzi ask us to think of some other use of mortar and pestle. He gave us a mind map.

Our work is choose 3 words from here, and think of other use of mortar and pestle.
I choose strong, $$$ and People. Here's my work:

A very famous quote

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn”

The quote above is a line from 1939 classic film, Gone With The Wind, where the hero, Rhett Butler speak to the heroin, Scarlet for the last time when Scarlet ask him "Where shall I go? What shall I do?". It is a very special quote as it contains profanity, which was not allowed in the film of that time, and it also shows that Rhett is no longer cares about Scarlett. This quote was voted as number one movie line of all time in year 2005 by American Film Institute.


*reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankly,_my_dear,_I_don%27t_give_a_damn

 

Under the word "think"...

I already knew about the method of thinking, which are expanding and narrowing thinking field. After this class, I able to know more method of thinking, divergent thinking and convergent thinking. Divergent thinking is the expanding thinking field and convergent thinking is the narrowing thinking field. And according to Mr Yap Sau Bin, some people are good at divergent thinking. However, some people are good at convergent thinking. Usually no one are good at both divergent and convergent thinking.

There are 2 kinds of mind map, logical mind map and associated mind map. An associated mind map we are able to generate random words and also show the links between words that seemingly have no connection. Besides that, the logical mind map is directly connected to stereotypes. The Logical mind map comprises of solely stereotype words.

On the other hand, I learned one new word, called stereotype. Firstly I completely don't understand what that means, then after the class, it's a new word to add in my dictionary, although I not yet completely understand. So I use online dictionary and successfully get the word.(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/stereotype) This is what I found:

–noun
1.a process, now often replaced by more advanced methods, for making metal printing plates by taking a mold of composed type or the like in papier-mâché or other material and then taking from this mold a cast in type metal.
2.a plate made by this process.
3.a set form; convention.
4.Sociology . a simplified and standardized conception or image invested with special meaning and held in common by members of a group: The cowboy and Indian are American stereotypes.

–verb (used with object)
5.to make a stereotype of.
6.to characterize or regard as a stereotype: The actor has been stereotyped as a villain.
7.to give a fixed form to.

 We are been told to create mind map about ourselves. Here's mine:

Humorous, Adventurous, yet Emotional

Just as my title wrote, the only thing can include these 3 elements, humorous, adventurous and emotional is a story. In this post, I am going to share a movie, which include these 3 elements, it is called Toy Story 3 that was just up to cinema last week.

Toy Story 3 continue the story from previous movies. The story is about the toys are mistakenly delivered to a day-care center instead of the attic right before their owner, Andy leaves for college, and it's up to the hero, Woody to convince the other toys that they weren't abandoned and to return home. The story is very special and the adventure is fresh. Moreover, at the climax part, it makes me feel nervous and exciting as the adventure is very nice. Besides that, near the end of the movie, where Andy feels like want to keep the toys, but he has to give up his toys and give to another worthy owner as he is going to college soon. That part is the most emotional part in the movie and I nearly cry out of touched when I saw the farewell of Woody and Andy.

 *reference: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0435761/

Ideas Creating

According to Mr Mustafa, a creative person is one who generates new ideas while the creative process is how these new ideas, solutions, and inventions are produced.


“Being creative is seeing the same thing as everybody else but thinking of something different ”
                                                          --Shekerijian D. 1990


Frankly, I like this quote a lot...


Mr Mustafa also taught me about novelty, creativity, innovation and invention. I am curious to know what can I get from internet about these 4, so I made research.


Novelty -  something new or unusual (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/novelty)


Creativity - the process of bringing something new into being (by Linda Naiman http://www.creativityatwork.com/articlesContent/whatis.htm)
Innovation -  a change in the thought process for doing something, or the useful application of new inventions or discoveries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation)

Invention - a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation (http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=invention)

So these are what I found.

Uh eeh uh ah ah ting tang walla walla bing bang

I am going to share a song in this entry. The song is called Witch Doctor by Cartoons.



Here's the lyric:

Hey Witchdoctor, give us the magic words.
-All right, you go: uh ih uh ah ah, ting tang wallawallabingbang

All right!
[Chorus]
ooh eeh ooh ahah, ting tang wallawallabingbang
ooh eeh ooh ahah, tingtang wallawallabingbang
ooh eeh ooh ahah, ting tang wallawallabingbang
ooh eeh ooh ahah, tingtang wallawallabingbang

dou dou doudou dou dou dou
[Chorus]

dou dou dou dou
I told the witchdoctor, I was in love with you
dou dou dou dou
I told the witchdoctor, I was in love with you
dou dou dou dou
And than the witchdoctor, he told me what to do

he told me:
[Chorus]

dou dou dou dou
I told the witchdoctor, you didn't love me true
dou dou dou dou
I told the witchdoctor, you didn't love me nice
dou dou dou dou
And than the witchdoctor, he gave me this advice

[Chorus]

You can keep your love from me just like you were a miser,
And I'll admit it wasn't very smart, (eyeyeyey)
But I went out to find my-self a guy that's so much wiser,
And he told me the way to win your heart:

dou dou doudou dou dou dou
ooh eeh ooh ahah,... (dou dou dou dou dou dou dou)
ooh eeh ooh ahah,... (dou dou dou dou dou dou dou)
ooh eeh ooh ahah,... (dou dou dou dou dou dou dou)
ooh eeh ooh ahah,... (dou dou dou dou dou dou dou)
ooh eeh ooh ahah, tingtang wallawallabingbang

Come on and:
[Chorus]

Yeah! Finally!

Finally, one of the questions in my mind for so long already solved. The question is, what is creativity. In the class, Mr Yap Sau Bin explained to us about creativity. To me, creativity means an ability for certain people who is able to come out with many new ideas from time to time, but looks like it is not exactly correct.

I always thought that only certain people with some talent will have creativity. After this class, only I realise that creativity not only include one's talent, but also consist of that person's hard work, thanks to Mr Yap Sau Bin. I also just notice that most great ideas are a combination of old concepts presented in a fresh, new package that provides us with a sense of novelty according to lecture notes.

Besides that, since Mr Radzi ask us to edit one of our friends' photo for them as profile picture, I exchange my photo with Miss Yong Hooi Khim. This is my work on her photo.

tada~

However, she also done some work on my photo and I already make it my profile picture. Here's the edited version of my photo.