Kamal's Design Diary

27/9/17 Week 5 Kamal Afiq [0330643] Video Editing & Production  Week 5 Lecture Notes No lecture today. Link to final assignment submissions:  https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_tckiUgeYdiXvZVQWlCsSY-jVsZq1FLi Instructions 'Vision' theme exploration Continue developing the story. Work Processes 'Vision' theme develop Draft 3 The story follows Adam as he goes through his daily routine, at home and at university. He works hard but keeps to himself. When he interacts with others he appears anxious and nervous, and often excuses himself from conversation. He avoids crowds and groups of loud people, and often feels anxious when around them. He sees a random boy using an inhaler and he starts becoming anxious as well. Most days he spends in solitude. Particular attention is paid to his facial expressions as the film progresses. The story continues in this manner until one day while walking, he stops and sees someone he recognizes. H...

25/9/17 Week 5 Kamal Afiq [0330643] Web Design & New Media Week 5 Lecture Notes Week 5 Lecture Old HTML used generic tags. HTML5 uses new Semantic elements like <Footer> and <Header>. These semantic elements can tell developers how to separate information. Id and Class attributes can be used to identify information and content. ID attribute Every HTML carries ID attributes. It is used to identify elements from others on a page. No two elements can have the same ID attribute. Class attribute Every HTML element can also carry a class attribute. Several elements can be identified from others on a page. They can be used like this: <img src="images/randomimage.jpeg" class="classname" /> <img src="images/randomimage.jpeg"  id="idname" />   Using these attributes doesn't actually change how they look on the page. It only changes if there is a CSS rule that indicates that they should...

31/8/17 Week 1 - 13/9/17 Week 3 Kamal Afiq [0330643] Design Studies II Culture & Consumerism Week 1 - Week 3 Lecture Notes Lecture 1: Trends, Forecasts and Market Search A trend is a general direction in which something is developing or growing. Trend research is done to find out whether subject matter or direction choices in design will cause a positive impact on the market increasing demand for products or services.  We can measure impressions by data circulation, population size, productivity and diversity. Designers need to know a few trends like: Seasonal colors Fashion  Entertainment Technology Trend forecasting involves predicting whether a product/service/activity will gain popularity over time, and transition from a sub-culture to pop-culture. Sub culture: a cultural group within a larger one, often having different beliefs and interests from the larger. One often forms because of resistance to mainstream culture. Adopting the norm...

20/9/17 Week 4 Kamal Afiq [0330643] Video Editing & Production  Week 4 Lecture Notes Instructions 'Vision' theme exploration Continue developing the story. Work Processes 'Vision' theme develop Draft 1 Adam is a troubled young man who studies at university. He lives in solitude as his social anxiety prevents him from interacting with others. This hasn't always been the case however. Last year, his best friend Daniel died in a freak accident and Adam felt guilty because they had a fight shortly before he died. He has since then withdrawn into a state of solitude and loneliness. This all takes a ghastly turn as Adam starts seeing his dead best friend throughout the day. Guilt-ridden and becoming increasingly paranoid, he starts to break down completely. He is flung deeper and deeper into an abyss of paranoia as he tries to escape hallucinations of his dead friend, but is unable to. Overcome with guilt and anxiety, he bei...

13/9/17 Week 3 Kamal Afiq [0330643] Video Editing & Production  Week 3 Lecture Notes Film showcase and analysis We watched a variety of short films and commercials and analyzed how they shot their scenes, setup their cameras and organized the story. Lalin  was a particularly long one, and used flashbacks. Instructions 'Vision' theme exploration Continue developing the theme of vision Work Processes 'Vision' theme exploration Below are an assortment of different characters that could be the subjects of the various above themes. Ambition  A driven young-man who just started first year at business school. He's got lots of plans for the future and is intent on being the best at what he does. In spite of that, his ambitious nature and self-centered character could traits that pull him down. Hope  An uneducated yet intelligent little girl born to a poor family, with dreams of breaking out of the cycle of poverty and becomi...

18/9/17 Week 4 Kamal Afiq [0330643] Web Design & New Media Week 4 Lecture Notes Week 4 Lecture We were given a lecture about organizing websites. Information should be organized into easy to understand chunks. Complex sites require proper information architecture. When confronted with complex information, users create mental models or interpretations about how it works. The success of a website's organization depends on how well you match user expectations. Navigation systems should neither be too shallow or too deep. If they're shallow, menu lists will be very long. If too deep, navigation will become confusing. There are two different types of webpages: static webpages dont change and are made by plain code and HTML. Dynamic webpages have content that changes and are written in server-side scripting languages like PHP, JSP, Coldfusion, etc.Well balanced navigation and site hierarchy offer users menus to make it easy and quick to access information. We...

5/9/17 - 11/9/17 Week 2 - Week 3  Kamal Afiq [0330643] Web Design & New Media Week 2 & 3 Lecture Notes Week 2 Tutorial Mr. Shamsul went through with us a short and brief history of the internet. He also talked through with us the basics of the internet's use as well as how web design works. Week 3 Lecture The internet was developed as a bi-product of the Cold War. The need for better communication systems as well as espionage lead to the development of DARPA, which latter evolved into the Internet as we know it. Tim Berners Lee was a major part of the internet's creation, who helped connect together networks while working at CERN. Shiva Ayyadurai pioneered E-mail. Instructions Work Processes Final Submissions  Feedback Reflections Further Reading References & Bibliography

6/9/17 Week 2 Kamal Afiq [0330643] Video Editing & Production  Week 2 Lecture Notes Week 1 Film Language Mr. Martin went through with us through a short over a short history of film and cameras as well as over a variety of different film techniques, types of shots and cinematography in general. Camera angles and the way the shots are stringed together are an important part of telling a coherent story through film. In the language of film, the various different types of shots form the vocabulary of this storytelling medium: Extreme Wide Shot (EWS) A broad view of the surroundings of a character. Often used at the beginning as an 'establishing' shot. Wide Shot )WS) A wide shot of important subjects and objects and their immediate surroundings Medium Wide Shot (MWS) Shows characters cut off across the legs or below the knees Medium Shot (MS) I A medium sot showing the subject's gestures and expressions. It could be of a person sitting from the waist ...

4/9/17, Week 2 Kamal Afiq [0330643] 2D Animation Week 2 Lecture Notes Week 2 Limited animation planning Because of a public holiday we weren't able to have class. Mr. Hafiz did leave us however with a task; to start planning out the Limited Animation stop-motion assignment. Instructions Limited Animation Plan out the rough story of a minimum 10-second animation. The actual scenes are to be done analogously.  Work Processes Limited Animation I started out by figuring out what kind of story I wanted to create. I thought that an action-packed story would be fun to animate and help me figure out my strengths and weaknesses. I didn't want to make anything too serious, but more light-hearted and fun. I thought a fight between a penguin and a leopard seal would be pretty interesting, and if they fought with modern weapons it would funny as well. I came up with a couple of character sketches. The characters were kept relatively simple and cartoon...