Final Artwork in Flash

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Final Artwork #1

Final Artwork #2

Final Artwork #3

*From the 3 Final Artworks above, we finally chose Final Artwork #1 as our Final Output.*

Idea Development of Interactive of Creative Multimedia

Random words for Interactive of Creative Multimedia

Below are the sketches and ideas that our team developed, and these are also the sketches that we choose for our next final design.

Sketches 1




Sketches 2

Assignment 2

The Logical Mind Map, Associated Mind Map and 800 words essay

Mind Map of Creative Multimedia

Mind Map of Interactive of Creative Multimedia

Essay- Interactive of Creative Multimedia

Random Words Association

LESSON 6: Random Words Association

From my understanding on the notes, the random word methond is an effective way on helping us creating new ideas by allowing us to enter our existing thinking pattern at a different point.

Using this method is easy. Just find a word and associate it with another word. Then create new ideas by linking these associations. This method as you can see, almost any word enables you to generate new ideas. This method also helps you to think out of the box.

Logical mind map

LESSON 3: LOGICAL MIND MAP

A mind map is a graphical method of representing your notes and ideas. Mind mapping helps to structure your information, to analyze and generate better ideas. This is an example of a mind map:

A mind map's characteristics usually involve and central idea or keyword. In design, a mind map always have branches, which is for the sub ideas. From this sub ideas comes the smaller branches, serving as an extension and elaboration of the sub ideas.

Mind maps can be use in many ways such as taking notes from lectures, summarize books or writing essays. We could easily identify and understand the structure of a subject. In a project, one could use mind maps to state their ideas and exchange them with their teammates.

Conclusion: Mind maps are one of the effective ways on developing ideas and help to stimulate creative thinking to solve problems.

This a mind map about myself :)

Juxtaposition part 2

JUXTAPOSITION ~ Part 2

Let's recap: Juxtaposition is the placement of two subjects with contrast. When you put two opposing subjects by each other, your brain tries to figure out the relation. In Lesson 5, based on the lecture notes, juxtaposition can also be considered as transfer of meaning.





What is ANALOGY?

Based on my understanding on the lecture notes, analogy is the process of transfering information from a familiar subject to more complex subject.

There are two types of analogies:

1) LOGICAL ANALOGIES

2) AFFECTIVE ANALOGIES

Analogies are divided by two types:

- Metaphor

- Similes

Metaphors happen when 2 different ideas that your compare or contrast and linked them imaginatively, though they are not like similes. Metaphors does not use the word "as" or "like".

Similes on the other hand, is the comparison of 2 different ideas with the word "as" or "like"

EXERCISE 1:


Choose three pairs of number from group one and three pairs of number from group two. Merge each pair of them together. Wirte a sentence by using the words given and draw pictures for each of the group.

My result: I got 17, 36 and 52

17: Flower & Tree

36: Ice & Spider

52: Oil & Rock

EXERCISE 2: MERGE THE PICTURES

1) LIFE


Life is but a flame,


It glows in the dark,



When the time comes,



the flame goes out,



so does Life.









2) HAPPINESS





Happiness,



is a wonderful feeling



of love, joy and contentment.



We jump with excitement



when we feel happy,


Like a fluffy kitten,



we feel contented



full of happiness.









3) MAN and WOMAN





Man and woman,



Two different beings,



yet equal in every sense,




God created woman


as man's companion,


To be together side by side.







Every man has a woman,


and every women has a man,


They are meant for each other,


like two sheeps in a valley


One wears blue and the other pink.

Lesson 4: Juxtaposition

LESSON 4: JUXTAPOSITION!

Mr. Mustafa Muzer delivered a lecture entitled "Juxtaposition". By definition, juxtaposition is the arrangement of two subjects side by side solely for comparison. The differences between the subjects are what attracts the viewers.

"In linguistics and semantics, contrast is a relationship between two discourse segments. Contrast is often overtly marked by markers such as but or however, such as in the following examples:

'It's raining, but I am not taking an umbrella.'

'We will be giving a party for our new students. We won't, however, be serving drinks.'

'The student knew about the test on Friday, but still he did not study.'

In the first clause, 'It's raining' implies that the speaker knows the weather situation and so will prepare for it, while the second clause 'I am not taking an umbrella' implies that the speaker will still get wet. Both clauses (or discourse segments) refer to related situations, or themes, yet implied a contradiction. It is this relationship of comparing something similar, yet different, that is believed to be typical of contrastive relations. The same type of relationship is shown in (2), where the first sentence can be interpreted as implying that by giving a party for the new students, the hosts will serve drinks. This is of course a defeasible inference based on world knowledge, that is then contradicted in the following sentence.

The majority of the studies done on contrast and contrastive relations in semantics has concentrated on characterizing exactly which semantic relationships could give rise to contrast. Earliest studies in semantics also concentrated on identifying what distinguished clauses joined by and from clauses joined by but.

In discourse theory, and computational discourse, contrast is a major discourse relation, on par with relationship like explanation or narration, and work has concentrated on trying to identify contrast in naturally produced texts, especially in cases where the contrast is not explicitly marked."

Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_(linguistics)

From what I understand in this lesson, juxtaposition is all about contrast. This contrast are usually marked with the words but and however.

Here are some examples:

"It is cold but he did not wear a sweater."

"I went to the picnic. However, I did not eat anything."

"He studied for the test on Thursday but he still fail."

Creativity, Innovation and Novelty; How are the related?

Assalamualaikum and warm greetings!

Its a very busy week, this week. There's a lot of things/assigments to do so I wasn't able to post anything in the blog. Looks like I have a lot to post for the last two week's lessons.

Now, let's get on with the show..!

Lesson 2: Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

Novelty by definition is the quality of being new and extraordinary and it's always based on things that have been created before. But to have novelty, one must have creativity. Using creativity, one can generate new ideas by mixing and changing existing ideas with your own touch.

Innovation is the introduction of new things. It is the important driver for economics. With innovation, new products are created with more additional values than older products. Innovation is the 'creation of novelty', which in other words,... turning your visual ideas into reality.

Even though innovation and invention are similar words, they're different in terms of concept:

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  Invention: The process of creating things and products.
  
  
  


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  Innovation: The realization of whether the invention of a product is beneficial in the market and the society.

An invention is not always succesful in the market. Conclusively, we can say that creativity, innovation, novelty and invention needed each other to produce useful and creative products.

Here are some funny innovations!

(Cool but can be confused as a cookie on the cone....)

(Do want! It's useful!)

Assalamualaikum, see ya later!

~First Lesson~

LESSON 1: DEFINE CREATIVITY

What is CREATIVITY?

By definition, creativity is the generation of ideas or concepts from your thoughts and brought them to reality. With creativity, one could create new products that have not existed before.

According to Wikipedia, "Creativity is a mental and social process involving the generation of new ideas or concepts, or new associations of the creative mind between existing ideas or concepts. Creativity is fueled by the process of either conscious or unconscious insight. An alternative conception of creativeness is that it is simply the act of making something new."

From this quote and base from the lecture in class, we can say that creativity does not reserved only for artist or art. I learned that every one is creative. I would say that creativity is a mind process, not a skill. However, it is just the matter of finding it. Some people have use their creativity at an early age while others found theirs later in life

Everyday in our lifes, we will use our creativity to solve our problems, whether we are looking for ideas for a new artwork or creating new products.





PS: (This is a picture of my friend. He's a vampire I tell you!! XD)