Final Image

Final Poster for our topic on multimedia.We make collage poster and give a deep meaning to our audience.

Sketches

We take the best sketches among us to finalize our final poster and improvise it.

Random Word / Image

Random image and word related to our topic.

DotA Bonding

DotA bonding

What is multimedia? Multimedia is a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, video, images, animation and so on as long as it is electronic media. The main use of multimedia is for entertainment. Today we can find a lot of multimedia base on entertainment, this is because technology can deliver great products of multimedia. Most of the people these days don’t go out and do outdoors stuff much, they like to sit in their home, in their room and log in into their computers and play videogames and watch movies. Why is that people now days like to waste their time and money on electronics? What is so good about them? With these multimedia we can connect to each other or send a message to the people by using images, audio and such.

As a multimedia student, we must know what function and benefits of this multimedia and as a student too, we like to play videogames. Does videogames also a multimedia? Yes videogames also is a type of multimedia because it is consist of images, audio, video and interactive. Many people say that playing videogames is waste of time, but not to us. In videogames, there’s also storytelling, positive message and art. Some people can learn good things by playing videogames, but it is also depends on what type of videogame are you playing. Not many people realize that videogames also can help us make new friends and make a good bonding with our friends. This is by playing the type of games where you have to play with your friend and help each other out and sometimes videogames can ruin your friendship in one game. Many gamers like to play dirty and sometimes they like to use cheat codes to win or play dirty. It’s amazing that videogames can make you have great friends and at the same time can ruin your friendship apart.

So what is the good example of this videogame? The videogame that can make you have great friends and at the same time can ruin your relationship? Easy, it’s Defense of the Ancient also known as DotA. So what is DotA actually? DotA is a strategy game that contains 2 groups and each group contains 5 players that’s 10 players total for each game. Each group have to destroy the opponents base. Sounds like a normal strategy game? No, each player can select their own hero. This gives the game more interesting. Players have to work together and fight the opponent’s team. Most of the people in Malaysia plays DotA whether their old or young, you can see a lot of people in cyber café just to play DotA. We’ve been playing DotA for quite some time and from what we’ve experienced, we fight and argue a lot of time during playing the game. This is because that one of our team member is not coping very well that’s why we argue after a match if we lose, and sometime we don’t speak to each other for a very long time.

When I play DotA, I will always set my mind to focus not to become extreme angry and mind.It is a very wrong emotion especially when u are losing.Usually I only get pissed when I play very well in a team but then one or two of my team members play around without really care to win.So is like your effort while playing is just only waste of energy and time.This kind of situation may lead to inner fight or revenge between you and your team unless you take the game unseriously.Playing this game with friends sometimes is the best cure when you want to to release your stress.Playing the game after hard day when finishing the assignment,laughing with friends when the teamwork goes wrong or make fun of your enemy sometimes is the best to feel only when u play DotA.You can choose to play public which is playing with a unknown person from around the world or choose your friends to help you fight the best team out there.Some of the software is Garena,Steam and Ucpro to meet all the DotA player out there.This game lately is very famous nowadays.Estimate around 20 million of dota player download the map from the website just to play the game each day.This game own its pride increasing famous until the company ‘Valve corporation’ create Dota 2, as a new game replace the old dota.This sequel with a character all was build in 3D technology and extreme highly graphic may be on the best game out there other than ‘Starcraft’ and ‘Diablo’.Dota 2 first shown as a tournament on german a couple of weeks ago and will be fully released on late of 2011.

These days it seems almost everyone has a theory about the future of video games.Many software developers see themselves on a collision course with the film industry,with games having their own version of the Oscars.Others expect games to mimic art history by undergoing a series of graphic reinterpretations.Bit if you look closely,the young history of gaming seems to be following the evolution of vehicle where games appear most television.

We tend to see gaming as one all-encompassing genre under a capital “G”.But within that genre,many sub classification will rise,thrive,endure and fail.Just as reality-based fare is among th most successful television of the las decade,it’s possible that the new massive,multiplayer online games will follow a similar course.It’s feasible that million of people will soon compete in a virtual world for the right to become Donald Trump’s Apprentice.Perhaps a enterprising designer will create an educational game that rivals the social significance of Sesame Street.And maybe a group of prescient developers will make a game series that allow participants to see what it’s like to perform in a real-life. Hopefully.

Mindmap Two

We focus more on the detail of multimedia and produce our second mindmap for the project.

Here we can see more on the video games and effects on our students life.

MindMap One

Our first basic mind map discussion based on the multimedia.We collect as many as much information on the multimedia we can see on our daily life and combine it to make a mind map.

Analogy: exercise

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Lateral Thinking

LATERAL THINKING

Lateral Thinking is concerned with changing concepts and perceptions.

It is about reasoning that is not immediately obvious and about ideas

that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.

Lateral thinking is always trying to generate alternatives and to restructure patterns. However,

lateral thinking is never a judgment or an attack.

vertical thinking:

- rightness is what matters.

- it selects a pathway (and stops searching) by excluding other pathways.

- it selects the best approach.

lateral thinking:

- richness is what matters.

- does not select, opens up other pathways; generates many alternatives even after one has found a promising one.

- generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

Juxtaposition part.2

JUXTAPOSITION

Many creative processes relies on juxtaposition. The act of juxtaposing is to place two objects or words next to each other. What automatically happens is that there is transference of meaning. Usually from something familiar to something less familiar.

LOGICAL ANALOGIES

Logical analogies are analogies, which use similarities in the design, structure or function of to connect back to the subject. For example a duck can be compared to a hovercraft because of the fact that both of them can move on the surface of land and water.

AFFECTIVE ANALOGIES

Affective analogies are the emotional resemblance. The clearest example is the use of an animal to explain a certain characteristic of a person. This type of analogy is used most frequently in conversation to emphasis certain points.

Logical Mind Map 2

PRACTICE

During the class, we had to do a mind map about mortar and pestle. We did research about it and made a mind map about the function of it except for mixing food.

This is my mind map and this is what I did.

This mind map helps me to think out side the box and think a different ways to use the mortar and pestle instead of just mixing food.

Logical Mind Map

LOGICAL MIND MAP

Mind mapping, introduced by Tony Buzan is a great tool for idea generation and brainstorming. It enhance both sides of the human brain and widely used in taking notes, research or generating new ideas. A creative Mind Map is able to stimulate and create interest to the individual and also to the viewer.

This is the normal mind map:

you can make the mind map more interesting and understandable by adding colors and images to the mind map according to the topics.

Juxtaposition

JUXTAPOSITION

"Juxtaposition can be defined as placing two variable, side by side and their contrast or similarity are shown through comparison. Many creative processes rely on juxtaposition. By juxtaposing two objects or words next to each other, human brain will automatically associate or transfer meaning. Usually ‘turning’ something familiar to something less familiar or vice-versa. "

-Notes from MMLS lesson 4.

Juxtaposition means that you take two different things or objects and put them together side by side to send message or to make comparison. Usually making them familiar to less familiar or other way around.

Invention and Inovation

I've been playing video games for my whole life and I've been wondering who is the first creator of video game and what is it. I've searched on the internet and this is what I found.

"Tennis For Two"

This is the first video game created by an American physicist William Higinbotham. He created this game from Brookhaven's computer. After Tennis For Two there was a game called "Pong". Video games evolve every year and keeps getting better and better from graphics to gameplay.

Crysis 2 has the best graphics today.

No controllers!! Your body is the controller.

See how video games evolve from the "Tennis For Two" to "Xbox360 Kinect". This shows that innovation is good and important to help us with our life or to improve something so that it will bring benefit to us in the future.

Novelty, Creativity, Invention and Inovation

Defining Novelty

"Novelty is the quality of being new."

-Wikipedia

Defining Innovation

"Innovation is the process of making improvements by introducing

something new, the realization of a creative idea in a social cont."

- Notes from Lesson 2 MMLS

Inventors

people who create something new from old ideas

Innovation means to create something new or improve from old ideas. New ways to solve problems or new ways of doing things, to make our life more easier. This is what I have learned from this class and here is the example from the class:

Jane Chen, Baby Incubator.

This is a good example of innovative invention. The baby incubator helps people that can't afford to send their baby to hospital.

Lesson 1

This is my friend Axquizzaaad, but I just call him Ax. This is the image I've done for him. I like to use the space/galaxy effect on images because it blends perfectly. He is also loves the space effect that is why is used the effect.

This is the picture he made for me. I will make this as my avatar.

Introduction to Creative Studies

Creative Studies means that to learn to be creative or to think creatively to solve problem or creating different ways. In this class I expect that it will teach us how to think creatively and the definition of it. To solve problems in different ways meaning to find another solution or a better way to solve the problem.

I have a problem of thinking creatively I and hope that this class will help me with that and help me solve m problem in the future with my studies or my life.

Defining Creativity

"Creativity refers to the phenomenon whereby a person creates something new (a product, a solution, a work of art etc.) that has some kind of value. What counts as "new" may be in reference to the individual creator, or to the society or domain within which the novelty occurs. What counts as "valuable" is similarly defined in a variety of ways."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity

What I understand from above is that creativity is that when you create or invent something new that someone hasn't invented yet. For example, the invention of Telephone by Alexander Graham Bell. He invented the telephone so that people can talk to each other from far away.

Alexander Graham Bell

Telephone