Picture time for travel application

I went to Putrajaya for my traveling application today. There were really many things to see and the parks there are really big. It took me about an hour just to explore a part of a park. However, it's also good for me because I had to walk a lot. I will go back again to take for another two more parks…

Here are some of the pictures (I'm not going to put everything but just some nice ones):

Taman Putra Perdana

Mercu Tanda

Fountain in Putra Perdana

Putrajaya view

Taman Botany

fern garden

Wetland

water cell

look out tower

Revamping Controversial Advertisement

In the last project for Design Studies 2, we are to recreate an advertisement based on a existing controversial ad. In a group 5, we decided to revamp a banned video that was aired in 8tv during the Ramadan period but was later removed due to some racial issue.

   

The controversial ad that was aired during the Ramadan of 2011.

We thought of during Ramadan theme video but our lecturer, Miss Jinchi suggested to do on racial unity instead. We took her advice and did a video complies of the major celebrations in our country. 

And this is the outcome:

To view more of our progress :

http://narniads2.blogspot.com

That is because part of the task is to update the blog. So basically the progress and research are done in the blog.

Fruits and animals

I am working part time as a teacher in an art center called " Global art". I just started in June 2013 and from there I learned many things especially more about color combinations. Other than that, I can now draw better than before as I have to practice drawing almost every week.

Besides coloring or drawing, I learned better to dealt with children and I can understand them better than I used to.

All of it are drawn by me but the animal and the fruits had its guide or a sample picture. This is exactly what the children learn to draw though but I think it is beneficial for me too.

Sonic assignment 2

In the second assignment, we are given a short clip of a silent movie called "the General". We have to foley for 1.25 minutes according to the action done. In a group of four, we gather the object to make the sound and try to make it as close as possible. These are the outcome of it…

(Better to hear using headphones)

Things we used for foley are:

3 Pairs of boots, Bat, chairs, clothe (a pants), balloons, paper cranes, wooden board, yoga mat cover, bucket filled with water and a basketball

We also wrote down the actions :

Sound Effects

Action

- Grab bat, Bat swing, Hit head, Gun release,  Character B fall on knee, Gun fall, Character B on ground, Grab and turn character B, Character B on ground, Open shirt, Turning, Hit character B, Slip and fall, Full body hits the ground, Leg fall, Feet turn, Hand grip- Drop stick, Stick on ground, Lifting the window, Climbs in to the window, Hand cover mouth, Carries the girl out of window, Tree falls 

Direct Action :

- Door opening and closing, Foot from wooden to cement, Door swing close, Hands on door, Door knob release, Footsteps, Hand on wall, Shoulder shift, Drag feet, Crawling on the carpet and then into the wooden floor, Touch and wipe shirt, belt and trousers, Start walking with splash, Character A stops, body and stick fall on the ground, Window rattle, Curtain and water dripping, Window bangs up, Window close, Hands hits bed, The spring and the bed sheet rustle, Running on the grass 

Special Effect:

- Thunder, Explosion

 Ambient Sound:

- Raining, Forest, Indoor room 

The story timeline: 

Sonic exercise

In class, we learned basic sound editing and also making sound. What I enjoy in this class is when we are to record our own sound using ordinary objects….

The very first sound editing is making it sounds like it's coming from different places such as walkie talkie, closet and telephone.

Walkie talkie

https://app.box.com/s/0nzj1cy65iauuwz969ot

Telephone

https://app.box.com/s/kxdndvprijcfobtt16s1

Closet

https://app.box.com/s/4ogfyc3kggs6fv2vs52d

Expanding a sound / add more effect :

Explosion

https://app.box.com/s/mmanwdzv98mexqyf5617

Punching

https://app.box.com/s/6bco9xltq95ddud6ms3p

Alien

https://app.box.com/s/mgps2j6xnpe2oyuxy15p


These are the sounds we created using ordinary objects :


Bird flap - we used a part of an umbrella and flap it while holding onto the metal part of it….

https://app.box.com/s/2oww89k0dno6t7r2dsyx

Thunder - A box and marbles are being thrown into it

https://app.box.com/s/o410t7e3gfblg0r18rzj



Other than that, we also get the chance to try out the mic and we have to go 3 different location : car park, lakeside and the cafeteria. After that, we just needed to reduce the noise in the background.

Car park

https://app.box.com/s/1x509xrf4zgo6uqdqdrl

Lakeside

https://app.box.com/s/au3pl9v5yfol8iv2ub10

Cafeteria

https://app.box.com/s/fjemo7e34wxdusax01ir

Sonic Assignment 1

A project where we have to pick a theme and then recreate a scenario using only sound.

The theme I have chosen is "everyday life".

I wrote most of the list for my sound that I'm using….

To hear the sound : https://app.box.com/s/p1okoube3wyyskuyw2co

    Since this is the first assignment for it, I can say that it was hard as I am not very good in bass and treble…. I couldn't identify certain sounds or even adjust it to what I wanted it to be.

Final assignment

  I was the director in this group of 3. This experience was really different from before and I was really stressed in this project. The first time we shot the video wasn't good and we have to reshot with a different storyline. This project really changed me the most and learned a lot here. Like how the industry may be worse than this but I already dislike this project. Working with a different group members or maybe members I never worked before gave a bigger problem to me. I learned more about them and see the side of them they hardly show in class. I was surprised at first but now I can understand them more. I guess that's the benefits of working together. Things didn't go as well as I anticipated from the beginning of the semester when we are told about this assignment.

  Overall, maybe this is good for me as I always think that my path can just go straight and I'm always right on track. Despite the ups and turns during this project, I did learned a lot and got closer with my group mates. This lesson teaches me that I have to be more self confident, don't be afraid to add more suggestion to what have been discussed and the bad presentation taught me that it's never too much when it comes to extra clips.

Okay move on, this is the shots of the final assignment (with a little different storyline) :

Scene 1: Hospital

Shot 1 – (ws) a doctor is walking in a corridor and walks into a room as the doctor checking a file.

Shot 2 – (ms) the doctor explain the situation to the parents of a patient as the patience is still unconscious.

Scene 2: Predinner

Shot 1 – (rear ms) The girl is at the kitchen helping her mother prepare for dinner

Shot 2 – (cu) a close up of the girl cutting the carrots. After a while, the girl accidently cut her finger.

Shot 3 – (mcu) her finger bleed. The girl wanted to scream but no voice came out.

Scene 3: Dinner

Shot 1 – (ms) At the table, both parents of the girl are doing different things. Father is reading newspaper, while mother is on the phone.

Shot 2 – (os) from the father

Shot 3 – (os) from the mother

Shot 4 – (ws) Both parents are gone, only left the girl, both papers and phone are left on the original places

Shot 5 – (cu) She makes sound using the cutlery and the items on the table

Scene 4

Shot 1 – (mcu/os) the Mac screen as she makes music in Garage band

Shot 2 – (ms) As she was making her music, the sound of parents argueing next room is really loud. So she plucks in her headphone and covers herself under the comforter.

Shot 3 – (ms) The girl under the cover

Scene 5

Shot 1 – (ws) A class- with teacher and students. She sits near a group of people but no one bother to contact with her.

Shot 2 – (ms) The students starts to pack up as the teacher call it the day. While that, they were discussing where to hang out.

Shot 3 – (mws) the girl walk pass them and one of them asked if she could come along. But they weren’t so kind.

Shot 4 – (mcu) the girl’s reaction towards the question

Shot 5 – (ms) the group overtake her while they were walking…

Shot 6 – (haws) the girls looked behind and couldn’t find the quite girl. But they went ahead anyway….

Scene 6

Shot 1 – (mcu) the parents are quarrelling while she sat still

Shot 2 – (mws) she continues her garage band. Someone knock her door, asking her to keep quite. Instead, she went out to a park

Scene 7

Shot 1 – (ws) At the park, she is sitting alone, playing her music from her phone.

Shot 2 – (ms, panning) behind her, there is a shadow luring at the back and he kidnapped her

Shot 3 – (cu) the music playing stops and the handphone fell on the ground.

Scene 8

Shot 1 – (wms) the parents play the song on the garage band and they listen to her song and starts to cry for her.

The trailer

Even though the presentation are presented by our group, the videos are all editing individually.

I wasn't satisfied in the outcome because I knew I could do better if I would have think fast during the shooting….