Experimental video (academic skills)

In this task we are to make a experimental video in a group about the theme ''Mantin''

Group Members :
Emily
Reynard(me)



Story :
This is a story about the college life in Mantin Legenda University College.
The video is taken in various parts of the college and shows what we do in our daily life

The Process in doing this is fun. Has some laughs doing them but it is also quite hard doing the movie

I learned to work as a team and discussed a lot on how to do it.

Print Ad(Writing for designers)

Choose 1 product  that we use everyday and make an advertisement about that product



Group members :
Hatmi
Hui Xing
Reynard (me)


Product : Acer Laptop

 Our Print Ad

Acer is a Taiwanese company that sells electronic devices.
Acer Laptops are best for working because of their cheap price.



About our Advertisement :
Title : Acer(make your life easy)
Subject : The new Acer Aspire S7(ultra thin) laptop

Background of the ad show that it is fast, portal and can be used anywhere

describing an Advertisement( Individual )

Take 5 advertisements from magazines or newspapers and describe what are the contents in them.

Rewriting (writing for designers)

Book Describing ( writing for designers)

Go to the library and pick a book or magazine about communication Arts and read about it then describe what you have learned and what the book is about.



Title of book : The World Atlas of Street Art and Graffiti
Author : Rafael Schacter and John Fekner
Publish date : 5 September 2013

The book is about :

1.  How Street art and Graffiti started.

2.  Street art from all over the world.

3. The beauty of graffiti.


What I learned from the book :

1. Reasons why Street art and graffiti is not always a bad thing.

2. Many creative street designs.

3. How street art and graffiti turned from vandalism to inspired art

Mind map (writing for designers)

Our task is to think of methods on ''how can get a girl friend in one day''. We cannot communicate directly but in the mind map we can. This is what we came up

Describing an Advertisement ( Group )

Task 7


Form a group of 2 and pick 5 advertisements from newspaper or magazine and interpret them

Group members :

Reynard (me)

Satish


Title : La Cremeria
Subject is about the Nice delicious ice cream
Typograpy is gold in color (monotype corsiva font)
Black background highlighting the gold bright colors



Title :  Game On
Subject is about soccer shoes (shoes for different classes like defender or striker)
Soft color to darker color background


Title : ACER
Subject for advertisements are electronic devices (laptops and  tablets)
Cost effective black and white with little color ( green )



Title : Samsung Galaxy note 3
Subject is about a Phone
Soft skyblue color as background color



Title : 4G for All
Typography in a customed orange font and has outline
Large typo to attract attention

Interpreting an article or picture ( group )

Interpreting a magazine or article ( individual)

20 most important(to me) design words

1.Brainstorming

 - group or individual creativity technique  to find a conclusion for a specific problem by gathering a list of ideas.

2.Resolution

- level of detail an image holds. The term applies to raster many types of  images. Higher resolution means more image detail.

3.Storyboards

-Storyboards are graphic organizers in the form of  images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence.

4.Pixel

-Pixel is a physical point in a raster image

5.Curve 

-Curves is an object similar to a line but which is not required to be straight.

6.Bold 

-A bold typeface or letter. used to help highlighting keywords

7.Caption

-A title or brief explanation appended to an article, illustration, cartoon, or poster.

8.Texture

-The feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance.

9.Crop

-Cropping refers to the removal of the outer parts of an image to improve framing, accentuate subject matter or change aspect ratio.

10.Dimension

-A measurable extent of some kind, such as length, breadth, depth, or height.

11.Headlines

-A heading at the top of an article or page in a newspaper or magazine.

12.Draft

-Preliminary version of a piece of writing.

13.Font family

-A typeface is a set of one or more fonts each composed of glyph that share common design features.

14. Perspective

- Art of drawing solid objects on a two-dimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other when viewed from a particular point.

15. Finishing

- A final touch of an artwork before completion.

16. Background

- Shows a scene in a less noticeable way where the main character is in a picture to add a feeling to it.

17. Width

- Distance between one side to the other side

18. Height

- Distance from top to bottom

19 Trim

- Making an image smaller in size so it will look nicer or just to decrease size.

20.Simplicity 

-Simplicity is the state or quality of being simple.

Food describing( Academic skills)

This activity is about describing about the food that each of us brought. The food brought has to be related to our own culture. Each of us were given a taste without looking what it is then describe the taste of the food.

My description to food from:

Satish

His food taste sweet like a cakishish feeling and can also feel the taste of eggs.
My prediction of the color of his food would be white or orange.
The texture of the food is like a potato or ubi.

Emily

The taste of her food is a little tasteless, some spicy taste like from a BBQ sauce and a bit of shrimp taste.
I think the color would be black or brownish because of the BBQ feeling.
Feels like meehoon.

Aisyah

Its taste like a lot of vegetables mixed together raw, some spice, might contain sambal or belacan and some peanuts.
The mixed taste makes it hard to describe the color but i would predict it to be brownish for its belacan sauce.
The feeling of many vegetables like the majority of it are beanstalks and maybe a bit of mee feeling.

Samira

The taste is bitter. VERY bitter, almost too hard and bitter to swallow.
The feeling alot of stuff mixed in it makes me think it would be black.
Feels very sandy like everything is blended. Other than the fact there are rice in it.

Alexis

A common taste of seafood like anchovies, some prawn and abit of vegetable oil. Very similar to Fried rice.
Might be yellowish for the oil mix or white for the common fried rice color.
Rice thats the only majority of the food texture.

Miss Nadyra

The taste is like some type of potato or carrot and the taste of the food was fried. Has a common taste to one of the fried foods.
Maybe browish in color.
The food is soft, squishy and sandy just like a potato.

What it really looks like :


Satish 

The food is called KASARI it contains sudi flour, Ghee, raisins and chest nuts.
It is square in shape and orange. It also have the looks of an ubi

Emily

Laksa sarawak is what the food is called. It has coconut milk, Shrimp paste, rice noodles and abalon sos in it.
Brown in color and it really is meehoon.
Emily calms that it suppose to have gravy in it but was absorbed by the noodles.

Aisyah

It was called Pecal. The food contains ALOT of mixed vegetables like kangkung, beansprout and longbean. Also, it contains noodles and peanut sos.
Has the color of the vegetables and black sos.

Samira

Although the food doesn't not have an English name but she calls it Ghorne sabzi. It has red bean, Olive oil, Dried lemon , various meat all blended together.
It has a color of a dark green


Alexi

I was right on this one it really is Fried rice. She put in Anchovies, soya sos, long beans, chili sos and rice(obviously).
the color is light brown


Miss nadyra

The food is her homemade dish she calls it Salted egg tofu dan she described it as 1 Nadyra as she put in multiple culture tastes in it. Contains, tofu, salted egg and seasome oil.
It is yellowish like curry in color.