Kamal's Design Diary

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...

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...