- The Thematic Project -

Holaaa everyone!!

Come back agaiinnn! Might be the last post for the creative studies class, but will never stop being creative ! :)
YES!! There it is...Ours! It is a final assignment that we've been working out these past weeks, and frankly to say..i satisfied with everyone's effort and we made a pretty great team work.
The presentation was wonderful as well, we delivered a good topic (* I think)..we answered for really fine answers..though i was so nervous, the video was amazing! Credit to Omar for helping out my group to get done with the brilliant video! At the moment i felt so good with everything that we have done as a team, i wish everything will be fine until we face a final exam on Sunday Dec 20, 2009.

Well...here it is, the following steps we did for the project.

THEME : " Creativity in the context of Multimedia University "

1. At the beginning, our group was consist of 5 persons, which are myself, Aby, Ikah, Naz, and Rihan, but in the middle of our work..Rihan had to step aside because of a problem, and I am the leader of the group.
Our first consultation was with Mr.Halim, we were discussing about our first plan by making the project about creativity as the different sides of media innovation, which meant that we were planning to talk creativity in the side of media innovation, because media innovation is one of the major under management's faculty but it is pretty different than any other management's major. Well, we failed to do so..because we didnt get much suport from Mr.Halim, Mr.Radzi as well. Also, we had been asked to completed first mind map so we can find out the topic easily.

2. Well...the next meeting we thought about writing it in the context of "Culture", because we have too much different people here, so it will be so cool..and it represents creativity that we really wanted to achieve, dont u think so ?! :)

3. We finalized that, we'll be talking about culture. These are our Mind Maps.
>> The first one is about " Multimedia University + Creativity " ( a logical mind map )
>> The second one is about " Culture in MMU + Creativity " ( a focus mind map )




* We had done digital mind maps, by using iMindMap..Tony Buzan's software. We actually have the picture for the mind map that we drew, but it wasn't too nice since none of us are really good in drawing :D
So, we decided to make it as digital.

4. After that, I divided the parts for the essay of the topic to the group members. And here is our essay when we showed it on our presentation day, the title is " Diversity Of Culture In Multimedia University "



5. From the essay, we have to figure out a design concept. Design Concept is a short sentence which is catchy and represent for the whole paragraphs that we wrote on our essay, so it helped us to keep right in the track.
After brainstorming for 2 hours at the meeting! We chose a really catchy design concept, " Culture!! Your Symbol ".
Continue to the next step, we have to choose one method that we had been taught in the class to make a final artwork. ( I hope u guys still remember all the methods that i've been explaining in all these times in this lovely blog. :D )

So then, we picked Random Image/ Word Association Method, by putting a shirt.
The shirt represents 6 parts reflect to our topic, which are color, size, style, brand, material, painting.



Explanations :


a. Life can be dull, if there’s only one color. Same goes to languages, it brings us varieties.
 Language

b. Does size reflect where you are coming from?
 Nationality

c. Style spices your life.
 Dress style

d. Your first move is how people brand you.
 Attitude

e. We are different because we have developed by different materials.
 Food

f. Good painting attracts, bad printing destruct.
 Perception

6. We consulted to Mr.Halim up to this point, and we got a bit feeling that he wanted us to change something and improve our work, but we didnt have too much ideas what to do anymore, and anyway..he said we did good so far. :)
So, we proceeded to the last step, which was a final artwork. It will be a video.

7. TADAAAA....its the presentation day..Dec 16 2009, and this is the final artwork of ours.




Yep! Thats it.., I completed this blog for my subject, as my record of knowledge, as my witness that i attended classes :p, and shared stuff for everyone out there!
Hope u guys enjoy! and do not stop being CREATIVE! :)

Here are some pictures of my group when we had our meetings for the project.
































THE END.

Love ya'll
Liz.

THe Homework!!

Ciaoo!!

It has been quite long time, i don't go back here to completing my subject's objectives.
but...well, here i am...still loving the blogging stuff! and lets share what i have for homework today!
So, without writing too much rubbish :p, i'd really like to jump to what i've done, and its still refer to juxtaposition which are analogy, metaphor, or simile.
I'll show a picture and i'll write a passage for it. ENJOY!


1. Describing " Life ".













a candle is a light
a light is a brightness
a brightness is white
a white is in the black
because life is too complicated to be so clear!



2. Describing " Pain "
















You are a sweet like an ice cream
You color me with your flavors, and its too nice to be tasted
But I knew there is nothing last forever.
Your flavor has gone, your colour has faded, u melted away. And it hurts me!



3. Describing " Love "


















Smelling u..make me wake up
Tasting u..make me awake
Finishing u..make me come back to my dreams
You are the bitter sweet love!



With Love
Liz.

" The Juxtaposition ", [ Segundo Parte ]

Ciaooo!!

Let we continue the topic from a part before, Juxtaposition..part 2.

So, the topic that i am going to elaborate today is just a bit slightly different from the previous topic, still under another example of juxtaposition.
There I was....at the Creative Studies class, we have to do an exercise, it was about " HOW MERGERS GO WRONG ? "

This is what I have to do.. I have to choose 2 animals from the list downward, HOWEVER..i gotta pick 2 kind of animals which are wont survive if i merge them ;)
wohoo...get me some ideas ??!!!! hehe..



well..the animals i chose was BUTTERFLY & FISH.
i am pretty sure they wont survive if i even combine their features, its just does not support each other, dont u guys think so ?? :)
This is a picture how i illustrate them..



UNFORTUNATELY, Mr.Radzi showed us a picture that illustrate the best " MERGERS GO WRONG".., here we are!! This a combination between FISH & BIRD.



I was so close to it, hehehe... :D

The next activity was Mr.Radzi showed us some of advertisements which contain juxtaposition! and here are another examples i found..








We are done with advertisement!

The next lecture from Mr.Radzi was in this picture...



So, i hope u guys understand what i have to do now! :D
I will be given some pictures which I have to do an analogy sentences to describe a concept, just like the example above..

1st picture " Chili ", describe a concept of " Love "

I love spicy, you are my hottie like chili
You've put a fire in my tongue, and it won't die
Because tasting you, get me addicted.

2nd picture " Mortar & Pestle ", describe a concept of " Man "


You are just like mortar, completed by pestle
You produce spices, you hard to be broken
Unfortunately you sound boring.

THIS IS FUN! :D

I'll be back for completing my homework for Analogy!

With Love.
Liz

References of The Juxtaposition, Part 1 and 2 :
wikipedia.com
cartoonstock.com

- The Juxtaposition..Primero Parte -

Dear My Blog.... :D

Aite, today i'll be going forward to a new topic which is "Juxtaposition". Have u guys heard about it before ??
Frankly, I've never had any single thing bout it..and this is my first time to hear this word. I am curious to know what it means because its so strange, and kinda weird name for me.. ;)

As the knowledge that i got in the class on Friday. Juxtaposition means placing things side-by-side. In art this usually is done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasting or opposing elements are used. The viewer's attention is drawn to the similarities or differences between the elements. Let say we can refer it to something like metaphor, simile, or analogy. Many creative processes relies on juxtaposition, and a lot of commercial or advertisement made by juxtaposition.

> Simile is a figure of speech comparing two unlike things, often introduced with the word "like" or "as". Example; " He is sleeping like a log ".



> Metaphor is a figure of speech concisely expressed by comparing two things, saying that one is the other. Example; " Jumping in the deep end ".



> Analogy is a resemblance of relations; an agreement or likeness between things in some circumstances or effects, when the things are otherwise entirely different. Thus, learning enlightens the mind, because it is to the mind what light is to the eye, enabling it to discover things before hidden. Example; " Gentlemen, the company is in bad shape......."
There are parallels in each of the example between the first term and the second but the second expands the example so you can expand the listeners understanding.




OK.., so based on some explanations i gave above, i wish to make juxtapositon clearer in your view. It is how wonderful people being creative with images and words and things get extraordinary, yet we understood and get what it purposes. One of the big reason why people make an advertisement/commercial using juxtaposition is to make it more attractive, interesting, and not boring.

Now..continued as usual, we have a task assigned to get done in the class.
The task is i have to choose any numbers..it has to be 2 digits, for example 87, 05. and based on the number i chose, i have to refer to the slide that Mr.Radzi has given, first digit will refer to the list at left side, and the second digit will refer to the list at right side.




These numbers was chosen by me : 12, 88, 09.

12 : Flower, rock
88 : Oil, wood
09 : Fly, rain

After that, i have to use the 2 words ( based on the number above ) to make an analogy sentence.

12 : She is pretty like a flower, but her head is still a rock.
88 : She is a fire, meet the oil, and burn my wood.
09 : -

Next job... i have to translate those sentences to a picture, and here it is ..


The 1st one is for no.12 ( Flower and rock ).
The 2nd one is for no.88 ( Fire and wood )

* sorry im bad enough in drawing :D

Then...it gets a bit harder, Mr.Radzi wanted us to draw again, but in this case..i have to put the 2 words together..making it as one new word, and design an image to describe the thing, so when people look at it.., they will say exactly what they see.

12 : Flowerrock
88 : Firewood
09 : Flyrain

and these are what i've done ..



The 1st one is 'flowerrock', in this case..now i can change what it means regardless the spelling, the important thing is the sound when people say it.

The 2nd one is 'flyrain', yeaa..it is funny how i drew it. It is actually rain drops with wings on them, hahaha... :D

DONE for today!!
With Love.
Liz

[ Logical Mind Map VS Associated Mind Map ]

So, few days back..the topic in the class was actually continued from last week topic, we’re still in “ Mind Map “ topic, and here I am going to talk about the two types of Mind Mapping.

Well..i explained in previous topic about mind mapping in general, and those explanations are useful to understand more about how mind map works or how to make one, etc. Fortunately, Tony Buzan invented two types of mind map, so u gotta choose which one is suitable for the thing you are doing.

The first one is a Logical Mind Map, why we call it as logical ?! it is simply because logical mind map is based on stereotype, it means we are going to reflect things that we have every day or around us, or stuffs that we talk and being recognized easily by everyone, etc. It is easier to make a logical mind map because you just have to refer to things which are connected to each other and make it as links.
Honestly, mind map is kind of a new stuff for me, though I knew it while back ago..i didn’t really have interest to apply it in my life. Nonetheless, for some reasons, I do understand better..how it helps , It keeps you right on the track.

On the other hand, the way of Associated Mind Map is slightly different from logical mind map, and the next question is why we call it as an associated ? It is because u have to connect the word by associating them, means that u don’t do stereotype as you can do in logical mind map and u don't really do the easy connection, it takes u to think harder to linking them and it doesn’t really make sense to look at but somehow they are explained by each other.

Last week, the class was finished pretty earlier..but we had a homework which we are assigned to do a logical mind map by Mr.Halim. So..this is my finale work. :)




yeeaaaa, my mind map is about health, as u can see in the image. I did mine based on stereotype, a simple explanations that easily understand by everyone. That is logical mind map.

Unfortunately, we didnt have any task to make an associated mind map, but i'll give an example that i found on the net.



by the way..the class was not finished yet ;)
so, in that day..Mr Radzi showed as a picture of Mortar and Pestle, he showed an associate mind map of mortar and pestle (the picture will be given downward). The task was...we had to choose 3 words from all the words given in the associated mind map he has, and re-create the functions of mortar and pestle for year 20009.





These are the words i chose and my sentences :

a. Teacher : Back in 20009, teachers used mortar to erase the white board, and the pestle for writing in the white board.
b. Smoke : Back to 20009, people smoke by the pestle, and mortar as the astray.
c. Mcdonalds : back to 20009, Mcdonalds waiter used the mortar and pestle as a sign to call the customer when their meal is ready.

Doesnt it sound funny & impossible ?! It doesn't make sense anyway, but this is how it is for, 'creating ideas', you have to come out even with the craziest idea that u have in your head..you have to do a bit brainstorming. Its fun and really interesting :)


CHEERS!!