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20/09/2017 (Week 4) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) Video Editing and Production Filming exercises Lecture -No lecture was conducted- Instruction For this exercise, we were to shoot a video based on the short film called 'lalin', we first chose to become either a director or a cameraman. Then, we started pairing up with each other to become a 2-man group, so one group has a director and a cameraman. Each group was then given 2 scene to film. Bulan and I became groupmates, she was the cameraman while I was the director. We both ended up shooting for last 2 scenes. Tutorial During the tutorial, the whole class went to block D lvl 2 to do the shooting. In each group and each scene, the director and cameraman of that scene each has an assistant. So there will be a director, assistant director (AD), cameraman, and assistant cameraman. While the director and assistant director talk to the actors and actresses about how to act and make sure everything is alright, the cameraman...

18/09/2017 - 25/09/2017 (Week 4 - Week 5) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) 2D Animation Metamorphosis Lecture Week 4      During the lecture, Mr.Hafiz has shown the way of using onion skin in Adobe Animate CC, he has also talked to us about the amount of drawings may differ in the animation, so that it actually influenced the speed. Also, sometimes we need to include squash and stretch in our drawing to make the object look more lively in the animation. Also, we have seen how an object changed into another object with about 10 - 12 frames. Week 5      During the lecture, Mr.Hafiz has covered more principles of animation such as Anticipation and Secondary Action. But before that, he mentioned  Shot On Threes .  " Often TV shows are "shot on threes": every cel is held for three frames instead of one (i.e. the number of cels is cut in three). A show shot on threes would have 8fps animation, in effect. Depending of how much motion is i...

11/09/2017-29/09/2017 (Week 3-Week5) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) Web Design and New Media Landing Page Design (and Coding) Lecture Week 3 During the lesson, we have learned a lot of new things that Mr.Shamsul said that they are general knowledge. The Sputnik launched on 4th October 1957. Tim Bernes-Lee in CERN invented World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. However, during that time, web is not for public but only education purpose. Also, the inventor for e-mail was Shiva Ayyadurai V.A., an Indian-Born American Scientist entrepreneur. There is variety of browsers, operating system and screen resolution.      A browser war is a competition for dominance in the usage share of web browsers. The first Browser War was Microsoft's Internet Explorer against Netscape's Navigator during the late 1990s. Browser wars continued with the decline of Internet Explorer's market share since 2003 and the increasing popularity of browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and O...

05/09/2017 (Week 2) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) Web Design and New Media Good Website vs Bad Website Lecture  During the class, Mr.Shamsul had covered up the overall module outline and told us about what we will be learning and what should we prepare to do in the future. I have learned several factors to make a difference between a good website and a bad website: Purpose : Every website needs a well-defined purpose, as website owners and bloggers who have a solid understand of what they expect to get out of their site will be able to work backwards in order to determine how the site should be managed, what content should be included and such. Clarityhttp://www.vandelaydesign.com/success-factors/ Instructions We were assigned to a group of 5 to figure out 5 good websites and 5 bad websites, then present in the class. When the class ended, Mr.Shamsul requested few of us to be representation of our group to post keywords that differentiate a good website and a bad w...

13/09/2017 (Week 3) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) Video Editing and Production Storytelling in Film Lecture Story = Explicitly Presented Events + Presumed/ Inferred Events Plot = Explicitly Presented Events + Added Non-diegetic (narrative) Material Story is the full sequence of events in a work of a fiction as we imagine to have taken place - in order which they would have occurred in life. Plot is concerned with how events are related, how they are structured and how the enact changed in the major characters. In every story and plot, 3-act structure and 5-act structure are very crucial. 1. 3-Act Structure Beginning : Setup/Introduction of a story Middle : Confrontation of a problem in the story End : Resolution of problems SETUP :  To establish the dramatic situation To introduce the main characters Leads to an incident that complicates the story CONFRONTATION Known as 'Rising Action' To develop obstacles/complications Leads to climax of the st...

28/08/2017 - 11/09/2017 (Week 1-Week 3) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) 2D Animation Project 1-Stop Motion Animation Instructions P1 Limited Animation/Stop Motion Animatics (15%) Due Week 3 AP Staging / Timing / Anticipation / Straight ahead action and pose to pose REF Coldplay Strawberry Swing. Nokia Gulp / Assassins Creed Paper Animation / Progress Week 1 - Brainstorming and make storyboards This project is a 2-man group assignment, and I have paired up with Char Hui Li (xxxxx). Together. we did a lot of brainstorming and we ended up choosing an astronaut story. Initially, our story for astronaut :       An astronaut is getting drunk in the space, he starts acting funny due to the drunk and he even starts seeing hallucination, a fantasy world of his own. He sees ice cream, candies, bubbles and a lot of other things, even rainbow. He starts hopping, dancing and spinning around in the space and pokes one of the bubbles. But, the bubble turn...

6/9/2017 (Week 2) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) Video Editing and Production Cinematography Lecture  Cinematography is the art of making motion pictures. When the motion picture camera was invented, the shots were simple and straightforward. The filmmakers then turned to dramatic presentations they called filmed plays. They breakup the action into shots and sequences in order to avoid the film looking flat. Cinema technique is all about manipulating shots and sequence that isolating part of it to look at and in what order to see them. Camera Angle A camera angle is defined as the area and viewpoint recorded by the lens. It determines: Subject size Subject angle Camera height There are several types of shots when it comes to taking a photograph: Extreme Wide Shot (EWS) Wide Shot (WS) Medium Wide Shot (MWS) Medium Shot (MS) I Medium Shot (MS) II Medium Close Up (MCU) Over the Shoulder Shot (O.S) Close Up Shot (CU) Extreme Close Up Shot (ECU) Extreme Wide Shot ...

28 March 2017 - 4 July 2017 (Week 1 - Week 13) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) Typography & Hypertextuality Final Submission Instructions Exercises Project 1 : The Story Book Project 2 : Font Design Final Project : Kinetic Typography Submission Exercise Week 1 - Basic Calligraphy Vertical lines Horizontal lines Circles Week 2 - Calligraphy a to m n to z Final piece Week 3 - Lettering Animation frames for "YUE WEI" "YUEWEI" GIF  Week 4 - Type Expression 6 verbs "SLEEP" Project 1 - A Story Book YouTube video Project 2 - Font Design Vanweida Final Project - Kinetic Typography Poster GIF animation Reflection Experience      I have come across a lot of problems while doing assignments in this module, but that means I have overcome the challenges and learned more things from this class. ...

20 June 2017 - 4 July2017 (Week 12 - Week 13) Liam Yue Wei (0327686) Typography & Hypertextuality Final Project : Kinetic Typography Lecture Week 12 (No lecture was conducted) Week 13 (No lecture was conducted) Instruction Final Project & Portfolio 40%  The Brief  Kinetic Typography Duration of Assignment  3 Weeks (Briefing on Week 10) DEADLINE  Week 13 (27 Jun 2017) Description  In this Final Project you may use the font you designed in the previous project and give voice to it. You will be required to choose a statement / poem / quote / dialog / etc. that is suitable to the character and personality of your font. You will design a static and animated Poster. “Kinetic typography—the technical name for "moving text"—is an animation technique mixing motion and text to express ideas using video animation. This text is presented over time in a manner intended to convey or evoke a particular idea or emotion.” (http...