REFLECTION 7

howie deee ? how was your day ? or specifically , how was your saturday ? =D

=,=” so many question marks . For this saturday , we going to have workshop . Yessss ! its the day after friday . And yesss , its the day after Putrajaya field trip . Ohhh yesss , we’re bit exhausted . But , fret not , we still can manage to be bushy tailed and bright eyes. =D

I’m sorry i’m late to class , but its unavoidable , there’s NO bus on Saturday and Sunday .  Okay , i’m late and everybody was there plus workshop has already started.  Being late were never beneficial to anyone . So were me , i’m lost about the first lesson . Worsen the condition , i’m clueless about photoshop and that kind of thingy . Luckily , my friend patiently tell me , instruct me what needed to be done , what to click , where to get , how to do . =) thank you !

Generally ,  we been taught some skills in using Adobe Photoshop.  The first session of the workshop been conducted by Mr. Faisal.  He taught us the baby step in editing photo using Adobe Photoshop .  I never used Adobe Photoshop before , so i’m a bit sceptical to learn the skill yet nervous too . People been saying that Photoshop was a bit tricky and complicated in using . What can i say about that , you’ll get the skill if you have the willingness to explore it .  But i fret ! Ohhh , why we need to use Adobe Photoshop on that day . Help me , help me :’)

First of all , we asked to chose a picture and cut it . Then chose another pic , preferably background picture to layer the first cut out picture .Why preferably background picture ? Because we’re amateur , we don’t have the much needed skill and we need to clearly see the process . For me , i chose cute penguin picture . After cut the penguin and disposed the unwanted parts , i layer it on desert picture . Its contradict the penguin actually . In real life , there’s no penguin lives in desert . In fact , no penguin can lives there . Why i chose that ? Because i want to conveys a message that 1st ) life goes on no matter what happen , 2nd) Be strong and 3rd ) Please cleverly adapt yourself in every situation . But , sadly , ehemmm … I didnt save the picture . So , i don’t have it . Thus , i can’t post in here . T.T

 Impressive right ? thats what we can do using Adobe Photoshop . =) But the two later before-after pictures above need more advanced skill of course .

*Another lesson here girls , don’t trust magazines pictures that show super duper hot beautiful girl , okay ? In real life , they’re just like us .

Practical time ! Dr Rosseni asked us to design our own banners . Howwwww ? tsk tsk  T,T .

This time i chose jellyfish pictures . First i chose it because the blue colours contradict my blog theme colour which is black . hewhewhewww ! turns out quite well . But if i got chances , i want to re-design it .

Mr. Helmi’s workshop was Post-production phase so he taught us about skills in video transfer, video editing, audio editing and finalizing our video.  As for video transfer, there are three types of video tranfer depending on the type of video camera :

• Hard disc transfer
• Mini disc transfer
• Tape (miniDV) transfer

In video editing, there are three softwares that we can use :

• Windows Movie Maker
• Adobe Premier
• Final Cut Pro

Compare to all threes, I think the most easier to use is Windows Movie Maker :p  What we going to do in video editing? The answer is :

• Arrange, change, add, cut and remove video clips
• Video effects on a video clip
• Video transitions between video clips

Once we have done with editing video, we need to think about the audio.  Our audio must be suitable with our video so that we can convey the emotions of the video.  There are few types of audio that we can use in our video :

• Voice
• Music – to create mood, to control audience emotion
• Sound effects – used for impact (Audio usage)

Then, for the final part was finalizing our video.  As for PC, we have .avi, .mov, .wmv, .Internet – .mp4, .flv, DVD – .dob, Mobile device – .3gp, m4v.  After he had done with his lecture, he showed us Adobe Soundbooth cs4.  Adobe Soundbooth CS4 is a software to edit sound.  Using this software, we can upload our audio and edit it.  We can cut our audio, change the note, and do a lot more with it.  Sound easy right but for me, it was the most difficult part ever. EVER!

 

 

 

And then, for the final lesson, he taught us how to use Windows Movie Maker.  Yes, its the most easiest but it still difficult for me.  Told you, I’m not good in technology.  I even do not know how to use some functions in Microsoft Word, so you people can imagine now how bad am I when it comes to technology?  Never mind then, so he taught us how to put effects, transitions, audio, subtitle, title and credit to our videos using Movie Maker.  

 

 

 

My brain going to explode . Luckily , we can call it a day already . So , i’ll put big smile for the day !

 

 

 

 

patience ~

People who knows me long enough , close enough would definitely know im not a patience person . I can get grumpy , annoyed , irritated easily . Yes , i’m aware of this , my bad . I do have those times when my emotions dissapointing myself . phew !

Al-Fatihah

Bismillahirrahmanirahim (In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful)
Alhamdulillahi rabbil ‘aalamin (All praise and thanks are Allah’s, the Lord of the Alamin – mankind, jinn & all that exists)
Ar-rahman ir-raheem (The Most Gracious, the Most Merciful)
Maaliki yawm id-deen (The Only Owner (and the Only Ruling Judge) of the Day of Recompense)
Iyaaka na’budu waiyaka nasta’een (You (alone) we worship, and You (alone) we ask for help – for each and everything)
Ihdina ssirat al-mustaqeem (Guide us to the Straight Way)
Siraat alladheena an’amta ‘alayhim, ghairil maghdoobi ‘alayhim wa lad-daleen (The Way of those on whom you have bestowed Your Grace, not the way of those who earned Your Anger, nor of those who went astray)

Ameen.

 

i need to be patient.

 

to be patient when running everyday errands , while making conversation , while in the middle of problems .

 

Surah Al-Imran (3:120);
“..But if you remain patient and become Al-Muttaqun (the pious), not the least harm will their cunning do to you.”

Surah Hud (11:115);
“And be patient, verily, Allah wastes not the reward of the good-doers.”

 

REFLECTION 6

Today’s lecture been delivered by Encik Helmi . we’re getting to more and more crucial and complicated parts now . Encik Helmi told us that we’re going to learn about the video shooting, video transfer, video design, how to create mobile tags and also how to implement what we’ve learned in our future teaching.  I’m getting clueless and clueless . =,=” Have to gear it up .

Okay , the contents of today lecture ;

Production phase (Video shooting):

i. The composition of video shots
The composition of the video shots depends on the position of the subject in the video shot. The position of the subject gives the message / different meanings and is called the composition or framing shots. The composition of the shot depends on the field of view (FOV) – FOV that is from the closest to the widest angle. The closest angle is called close-up (CU), middle’s is called middle shot (MS), and the widest angle is called wide shot (WS) or a long shot.

-Close-up shot (CU)  is used when the emphasis is given to the subject and less emphasis is given to the background.
For example, the focus falls on the people in the picture and the background is not so important .

-In Middle shot (MS), the subjects have the same dominant as the background in which means that the two elements share the equal screen space.
For example, the people in the picture are big enough as the background space.

– In the Wide shot/ Long shot (WS), the background dominates the display space. This shot can be used to show the whole and the environment in which a scene is happening.

For example, it’s clear that we can know that where the place the people are taking photo.

PS: The angle of video shot is also another thing that need to be considered during the composition of video shots. They are:

*all pictures is originally self-taken .
-Normal angle (Video shots are usually taken parallel to the level of the subject)
-High angle (Video shots are usually taken from a higher level than the subject. The video shot can be used to show an overview of the filming location. Video shot can also be made the subject appear smaller in size and reflects the feelings of sadness and silence)
-Low angle (Video shot taken from a position below the eye. Video shot from this position makes the subject appear larger in size and looks strong and powerful)

ii.The movement of video camera

The movement of video camera can be used to show the movement of a subject or change the perspective of a video shot.
-Zoom – zoom-in is used to indicate a focus on an object, and zoom-out is used to show the entire mood of the scene. However, sometimes the zoom movement makes our shots not realistic and should be used cautiously.
-Pan – another common shot is pan, in which camera is activated in the horizontal direction, but the cameraman did not move from its original position. The term commonly used is “pan right” and “pan left”. This movement is commonly used to describe the speed of the movement of an object. Just like the zoom movement, this movement should be used cautiously and not too often.
-Tilt – tilt is the same shot as pan shots, but there is different in direction which camera is activated in the vertical direction. The term commonly used is the “tilt up” and “tilt down”.
-Dolly – a more realistic movement is the movement of a dolly camera, where the entire mobilized near or away from the subject is using a tripod with wheels. The term commonly used is “dolly in” and “dolly out”. Dolly shot shows a change in shot in a more natural perspective.
-Truck – truck movement applies the same shot with a dolly, but its direction is different where the movement is from left to right (or right to left) of the whole camera. The term commonly used is “truck left” or “truck right”. Truck shot is very different from the pan shot, where in the truck shot, the whole camera angle of video shot diverted causing changes of the shot at the same time.

**From here, actually I prefer the close-up shot, normal angle and zoom movement. It’s clear to show the reason of my preference from most of photos I’ve taken =))

iii. Tips when shooting a video
Some useful tips when shooting a video:
1. Use the Rule of Thirds
2. Use slow motion and even when taking video. Rapid movement makes difficult to audience to watch our video.
3. Zoom in our camera in a “pause”.
4. Start the video we shot earlier and stop our shot 4-5 seconds after a scene was ended. This ensures that we have more video footage and not the truncated one scene. In addition, some cameras will not record video directly when we press the “record”, so we should give a few seconds before starting recording.
5. Do not talk during the recording. It will be difficult for us during the process of video editing.
6. Use a tripod to record a video that is uniform.
Today , Encik Helmi also  taught us how to create mobile tags.
Firstly, we need to go into the website of QR Code. =>http://qrcode.kaywa.com/
From the website, we can create our own mobile tags for our own network like facebook, twitter or wordpress.

check my wordpress QR-Code =D

I’m trying to download the QR Code functions for my phone , but the internet connection was too lousy to waited it to completed . So , i just gave up . But , I’ll download it some other times . QR Code provide easy access to relevance web that we want and we can get information about products or services that we interested in . So , this is so convenience .

 The last part of lecture “how to implement what we’ve learned in our future teaching“.
According to Felder and Silverman (1998), there are different preferred learning styles. There is either sensory or intuitive (perception), visual or auditory (input), inductive or deductive (organization), active or reflective (processing), sequential or global (understanding).

In our teaching,
-We can use video to suit students with learning styles (visual vs. auditory).
-We can use mobile blog to suit students who learn with reflective learning style and also sequential vs. global learning style.
-We can use mobile augmented learning to suit students who learn with active learning style.
etc and etc…..

lots to study =)

REFLECTION 5

New day , new week , new spirit , new resolution , perhaps ? =D put up a smile to your day ! will you ? Although me had some issue about today class schedule , =,=” . 

 Well, this issue goes like this ,  day before the class, I received a text message from one of my classmates said that the lecture was cancelled and we just need to go to the tutorial . So , after discussing with my classmate a.k.a my roommate samirah , we assumed that the class will start at 11 am (well , it is the supposedly tutorial time , okay ? .)  We  took bus at 10.30 am feeling contented that we will be among the early birds to arrive . =,=’ yeah , the actual fact is , we’re late !

Around 10.30am ++ , Encik Helmi begin the lecture by explaining more advanced about his video production module to us. Since last time he stopped till the pre-production phase, he gave us recap of last week class. Nice , so we can recall and interconnected with today lesson . For today , Mr. Helmi taught us about Video Production Module .

The aim of the module is :

• To enable us to design and develop our own video to be integrated as teaching tools
• To expose us to video technology as well as mobile and web 3.0 technologies

Phases of Module :

• Pre-production (planning the video)
• Production (shooting the video)
• Post-production (editing the video)

In the pre-production phase, we need to plan our video using scripting and storyboarding. A tool that will assist us in scripting and storyboarding is User Innovation Management (UIM) tool.

For pre-production phase in UIM tool, we have 6 steps. The steps are :

• Select
• Plan
• Insight
• Vision
• Sketch / Paper prototyping
• Present

* For sketching step , we use paper prototyping . Thanks Encik Helmi for providing all those colour paper , colours sticky notes , cardboard and etc .

paper prototyping is a widely used method in the user-centered design process ,  a process that helps developers to create software that meets the user’s expectations and needs .

Aims of using paper prototyping :

• Plan the overall layout for our website
• Information can be searched easily in the website
• Message is conveyed to the audience

Main elements that our website should have :

• Main page
• General summary of our website
• Product page (Image gallery,Video gallery)
• About us
• Contact us

I’m so lousy , i didnt know what to do at first .But , gradually , i knew what we need to accomplish in order to produces paper prototyping . Its like we need to design a websites , our websites to be specific , by drawing , sketching , sticking . We had so much fun doing it . Its like we become kindegarten kids again . Its been so long we haven’t work creatively .