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.

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.

drawing activity Academic skills

In this activity we are to draw about whatever question we got.

              Miss Nadyra had a few A3 sized paper, each has its own questions. We each picked one out and we had to draw our conclusions on the A3 paper.

Here are the results :

I got a question asking ''how would the security guard's snoring tell you what he is dreaming about ?''

My answer would be that he is dreaming about being surrounded by treasure and then he used all that money to get a food making machine(like the movie ''a chance with meatballs'') but the treasure was cursed so the pirate's soul will haunt him forever.

(Will be edited more soon)

Academic Essay

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Reflective Pratice

Task : Students are required to write an essay of their own understanding about individual creative and plagiarism with supporting material. The essay should be 750 words.


            Creativity helps in many ways and everyone uses it in everyday in our world. Creativity is not only limited to art and design, even those who are doing economic business and even in military are using their creativity to create ideas and avoid situations. Example of military creativity is creating a home made bomb with only basic materials

Home made bomb using fuel and oil

               Practicing helps in improving our talent on what ever we do. Whether it be cooking, drawing, writing or creating it all requires practice. Practice happens everyday in our life, we practice to improve and update ourselves the more we practice the more we get better at it. Researching is also a good practice and is essential because researching can help in our work as we explore and find new ideas. Self- Experimenting can be quite beneficial as it also improves our skill, as we experiment we might create something awesome without even thinking like making a stable paper chair.

Paper chair

                As a design student, it is essential to practice improving our creativity. We use our creativity in our work, assignments and tasks. Also, having all the tools and materials prepared is always good.  A handbook or sketchbook especially is essential to many designers. As we look around and think we may create ideas ,these ideas can be anything even if it is crazy because creativity has no limits .Sometimes ideas pop up anytime, anywhere with no warning and you will forget about it in a few minutes. Thats when sketchbooks come in, we can jot down our ideas in them so we can preserve them later.

Sketchbooks with sketches

                  Plagiarism however is a common bad habit that most of us humans have. Sadly, plagiarism happens everywhere everyday from books and articles to artworks. Creators like writers suffer plagiarism the most because many people are always finding content or information in internet articles and libraries. Even as we try our best to eliminate it, we cannot resist finding an easy way out. Plagiarism should not be practiced as it is deemed illegal and can be put to jail for such action. Mostly, we plagiarize because of our laziness ,out of ideas or even intentionally. Plagiarism involves copying someone else's work without the creators permission or giving credit and then making it your own, edited or not it is still a plagiarized content. Also, Plagiarism has no beneficial values as it only involves taking and not creating. It is an effortless attempt in order to complete a work easily by a simple copy and paste.

Academic Activities(Problem solving)

PROBLEM SOLVING

                We had yet another activity, this time its a game of problem solving. Problems are written on paper and again we randomly choose a piece. As always,  I was chosen as the 1st to start. We picked our pieces and explain what we would do to solve the problem. We were given a day to draw out our problem in an A3 sized paper.

Here are the results :

Reynard(me) : 

1) what would you do if you saw a good friend shoplifting ?

 

Well, I said that I will tell him to put the stolen items back or else I will tell his parents

2)The cashier has given you RM 2.50 extra what do you do?

This is a funny one, Satish suggest that I slap the cashier and say do you know maths. But, I just said that i would kindly give it back. I liked Satish idea too so i drew a little about it. Lol

Satish :

1) Which part of the body fo you think is unique and creative?

He said the head because our brain is in it and we use it to create creative things

He drew a head with a brain in it(ewwwww) and text thats...maybe from google hahahaha

2)Let the next person give you a problem  (This problem was given by me)

Problem : how do you design anything if you are blind?

He replied by using his hands to paint something 

He painted a painting with his hand while his eyes are blindfolded. He said to have painted the table more than the paper. 

Aisha:

1)how do you cross a lake without using your legs

She replied: by streching my legs like a rubber to cross the lake.

She drew few 2 more ideas too and I think her idea is a good one. 

Alexi :

1)you cant or don't have 3D software, how do you make a 3D art?

She said she would use modelling clay to make it

She made a duck but she said she was suppose to make a cat but in the end it turned into a duck because of her inexperience. 

Xu Hui :

1) How would you design if your laptop and other digital software is broken?

She replied that she would use her hands to draw.

She is damn good at it. Her artwork is indeed very nice.

Samira : 

1)How would you snap pictures when your camera is broken :

She said that she would use her laptop webcam and scanner to take pictures.

She showed us pictures taken from her hostel using her laptop webcam

2)You have only RM1, how will you travel from Kuala Lumpur to Nilai?

She said she would walk(WOW) or hitch hike from Kuala Lumpur to Nilai.

She drew herself sexily hitch hiking a Ride.

Hui Xing :

How would you draw without your hands ?

She said she would use her mouth to draw

She dint bring her drawing but she demonstrated in class by drawing a pet dog from a Cartoon show named Shin chan

We had fun in this activity, it challenges us to find ways to solve our problem without relying on others. It helps us to think out of the box.

Heres some pictures of our drawings :

Academic activity ( story writing)

STORY WRITING


                 A week after the object and role play guessing, we had another activity. It was a story writing game this time, each of us will write down a word on a sheet of paper and fold it just enough to cover the word. Then, once all of us had written a word we had to take out a sheet of paper and write down the words that was written. After that we had to write a Funny story with the words given. we had only 5 minutes to write the story so we had to do it quick. Sadly, i dint complete mine in time so it was not funny
( i guess im bad with funny stories) and was disqualified. Oddly, Alexis and Satish was also disqualified
(top students) and we ended up being the judge on the next round.
       
                 
                  The 2nd round was a story about scary stories, same as the 1st round the same rules apply. As judges we cant participate and we can only wait until the time is up. After 5 minutes ,we judges read the qualifiers story. Emily and Tommy were disqualified because their story was way too funny to be scary. Then only Samira, Aisha and Hui xing were left.

                 
                  Emily and Tommy are the judges on the final round, this time it had to be a sad story and just like the 1st and 2nd we had to wait. Miss Nadyra notice that we look bored while waiting (maybe) so she started a little drawing game. We were to draw parts of body parts in turn folding it up, I did the shoes.
By then, the qualifies had finished drawing. Emily had trouble reading Samira's Doctor handwriting so I helped her read it. In the end, Aisha won as the her story was voted the sadest.        


     


The Process of writing the words for the story


Picture of the drawing that we took turns to draw while waiting

Academic skills activity ( guessing game and role playing)

OBJECT GUESSING  

         We had a fun activity a 2 weeks ago, its a game of guessing and role playing. The 1st game was a object guessing game. Miss Nadyra wrote objects on pieces of paper an then folded it. Then each of us will take turns taking a piece and then describe about it without making it too obvious. The others will then try to guess what object I am describing. It was a fun experience, all of us were competing each other for the right answers. It was a little chaotic but quite funny. Me and Alexis took the first few questions and was on a rivalry spree but suddenly I fell behind. (probably because the rest of my classmates don't want me to win lol). 

The game was fun it was mind challenging and it teaches us to be able to see the object with only descriptions. Also, it challenges us on how to describe a certain object creatively.

ROLE PLAYING

          After we finished with the object guessing, we went on to Role playing. Like the object guessing Miss Nadyra had our names on the paper and we randomly picked the pieces . Then, each of us will have to act like the person that we had on the piece of paper. Of course, we would have to guess who we are acting as. Funny thing is ~ I seem to be everyone's target to go 1st. hahahaha

(Reynard(me)) : as Miss Nadyra

My act was quite easy , all I did was say *hai guys* but they took sometime guessing it. 

Satish : as Mr Sukor

He acted Mr Sukor's walking style.

Aisha : acted as Satish 

She acted by saying his motto which i dint understand which is *Dei thambi*

Alexi : as Xu Hui

She was going to do Xu Hui's act but in an instant Xu hui already knew it was herself.

Samira : as Miss Tiffany

Her act was a standing leaning look which Miss Tiffany usually does when we are doing our work at her class.

Emily : got herself

She was late and said *sorry miss im late* to Miss Nadyra and thats what she did when she acted.

Tommy : acted as Hui Xing

Im not clear on how he really acted though

Hui Xing : as Aisha

It was a bit messy so I dint know how she acted. =_=

Xu hui : as Tommy

Forgot how she acted . >.<

In the end, we had an extra few rounds and had quite the fun. I learned that other people have different personalities and we must understand that. We also had to understand other people have different options.

Learning outcomes(Academic skills)

There are a few things we must know when we are doing assignments/work that were given to us.

• We need to know what type of software that is most suited for the assignment. For example Photoshop for editing, illustrator for illustrations and flash for animations.                                                   
• We must remember to use all the resources provided efficiently whether it be from a library or from the internet.                                                                                                                                            
• We must understand that our work is not 100% original when we are referencing from other people's work. Also, we must make sure when we are taking points from a certain article or book, we must give credit to the author and properly state the source of the work.                                                            
• Able to see the value of the information in sources, as in how helpful or effective of the information was provided by the source                                                                                                                  
• Able to explain each data that is related to the work at hand.                                                                 
• Save and produce every idea as much as you can as even if it wont be useful in the present but maybe in the future.                                                                                                                                              
• Being a good example to other students by showing that you are punctual, committed, able to manage time, and able to take responsibilities.                                                                                                      
• Take note or record of every source of information that was given to us and ask every bit of information from lectures if there are some questions.                                                                                     
• We have to plan first before we go to the actual work. Planning and sketching will help save lots of time and lessen the mistakes that will occur when we are doing the actual work.                                                                              
• Understanding every word and points accurately and  able to properly quote the points with authors name.                                                                                                                                                  
• Teamwork is essential in every group work.                                                                                                
• Always record ideas that come into mind and keep on improving our own skills as there is no end or limit to creativity