Thursday, August 19, 2010

♠ Week 9 - 800words essay *CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA*

*assignment- 800 words essay
Title : ADVERTISING IN CREATIVE MULTIMEDIA

In this current era, computers, electronics and telecommunications have been merged to fulfill the global needs. The masses are aware or maybe not that whatever that being consume or access in our daily routine are all related too Creative Multimedia. Creative Multimedia can be separated to explain which “Multimedia” can be define as many medias being compressed into one category, while “Creative” is obviously something that related to art or design, entertainment or maybe education. Creative Multimedia is branched out to technology, media, creative and interaction or communication, as well as advertising.

The very essence of creative multimedia itself is to bring creativity into a whole new level by introducing various media and platforms for creativity to continue to strive. Creativity in creative multimedia means being able to create as well as being able to innovate. Innovation and creation are the two fundamentals of creativity. In the context of innovation, creative multimedia has the ability to innovate or in other words improvise on existing styles and ideas and enhancing them to become better or even bring out new inventions out of it.Apart from that, creative multimedia allows more room for innovation in the sense that there are now more platforms or media for creativity to be expressed. For instance, creativity can be expressed digitally through digital work or traditionally through traditional artwork. These artworks can be in the form of an interactive web, application or even packaging that is innovative and creative.

Creative multimedia has created the opportunity to explore creative arts in a very vast way and this opportunity is fully utilized in creative advertising. In advertising, it can be separate to idea, product, media, interaction and communication. Advertising is used in expressing and interacting with the audience. The producers use their creativity in attracting and pursuing the consumer to buy their product with the used of different kind of media. The interactivity content forms to convey or expressing information and messages of creative products. Creative multimedia in advertising is also all about creative ideas. The various media used in creative multimedia allow room for more new and fresh original content of ideas. Multimedia enables ideas to be presented uniquely and different from the rest. With the creative ideas, and unique presentation, this helps a lot for the producer to advertise their product. These shows that, Creative Multimedia and advertising is very close related.

Advertising is one of the many creative fields that actively incorporates and utilize creative multimedia to its fullest. Advertising is the form of media to communicate a message to its audience. The world of advertising is highly competitive with many large corporation and industry trying all at once to influence and deliver their message to the people. Thus, how the message is delivered is of utmost priority as the way the message is delivered has to attract the public’s attention. This is where creative multimedia comes into play. Creative multimedia provides many outlets for the advertising industry to convey its message for instance, through attractively illustrated posters, billboards, banners and the most effective of the lot, commercials or advertisements. Although messages can be conveyed in many different forms now, the most important thing in advertising still remains in the whole concept or idea of the message that one would like to deliver. The concept of the message has to be unique, original, fresh, economical and different from all the rest to stand out from the crowd and this is essential in a successful and winning advertisement.

Advertising is also an effective media for conveying message. Each of the advertisement comes with a meaningful message. Producer use it to communicate with the customer to deliver their product message and usage. Some advertisement which is creative and unique is able to grab the audience’s attention. Usually an advertisement’s message is easy to understand, simple, effective, persuasive and gives a lasting impact. Advertisement is usually shown on broadcasting media such as television and radio. It is also shown on printed media, for instance poster, newspaper and magazine. Nowadays, people choose to rely on finding information through internet. Thus, online advertising has been invented. We can see them on internet, like social networking sites. There are different form of advertisements, such as banner advertisement, classified advertisement, and Google advertisement. Producer can also choose to promote their advertisement by using email or also known as spam mails.

In my own point of view, as what has been mentioned above about Creative Multimedia has broadened the advertising . However, advertisements have its advantages and also disadvantages. Advertising can be misleading and they do not always tell the truth. Plus, advertising is the means for corporate companies to gain profits from the public rather than delivering the right message and care about the publics’ welfare. On the other hand, Creative Multimedia has helped the advertising industry to bring the creativity to another level compared to the traditional advertisements.

In conclusion, Creative Multimedia defines what art is all about in this century. This is because Creative Multimedia has widened people’s perception and knowledge regarding what art is all about. Advertising is vital in the commercialized world that we live in right now. This especially so since advertising plays an important part in communicating a message, selling a product, conveying new ideas and utilizing different forms of media. Thus, Creative Multimedia plays an important role in our lives.

♠ Week 9 - Creative Multimedia (mind map)


Logical Mind Map

Focused Mind Map

Thursday, August 12, 2010

♠ Week 8 - Random Word / Image Association

Random Word / Image Association
  • is and idea generation method which allow us to systematically generate new ideas through a fixed formula.
  • First, you need to find a random word. Then, you need to find associations and use the associations to create new ideas.
  • I found a website that state out the explanation of random word. http://creatingminds.org/tools/random_words.htm

Random Association : Exercise
  • create "scary images or object" that will instill fear among people through the ages.
  • the random word that given was "kitten"
  • associate that chosen by me, head, claw and tail.

Thursday, August 5, 2010

♠ Week 7 - exercise on Juxtaposition 2

Task 1 (given in class) -
During the class, we have been given an exercise that related to juxtaposition.
  • 1st step, 2 groups of number are given, and we need to choose 3 number that we like.
  • I have choose number 28, 39 and 54. After than i need to combine them, turns up (i) 28 -lightning wood, (ii) 39- ice rain (iii) 54- fire mountain
  • Making a sentence by using the combine words and sketch the situation out.
  • Lastly, using the combine words to form a new word and sketch it out. exapmle : lightningwood, icerain, firemountain.

Task 2: Describing the content that given in the slide.

Love is excite,
just like you have a taste on an extremely spicy and hot chilies.

Life is pain,
just like having a cup of coffee that perceived bitter taste.

Without credit card there is no life,
with credit card life will be much more colourful and meaningful.


♠ Week 7 - Juxtaposition 2

Analogy
-use different subject which have no connection between them, to explain something about.

Metaphor
  • which 2 different things are linked by some similarity. Comparison that are obvious are not consider metaphors. Different ideas are being connected in imaginative ways.Unlike similes that using "as" or "like" to make a comparison, metaphors state that something is something else.
  • example : I am a rainbow. (comparing two noun, person and rainbow without using "as" or "like"

Simile
  • Using "as" or "like"
  • example : The water is like the sun. (is an example of simile because water and the sun have little in common, and yet they're being compared to one another.

There are two categories of analogies, which were logical analogies and affective analogies.
Logical Analogies
  • which use similarities in the design, structure or function structure or function of to connect back to the subject.
  • example : Comparison of the whale and submarine. They both can dive to great depths but still need to surface for air.
Affective Analogies
  • emotional resemblance
  • Most frequently used on conversation to emphasis certain points.
  • example : He is like a pig. (because he is lazy)

Hence, let me end up this post with an advertisement from apple:
The analogy of the PC Intel Pentium II chip to a snail.

♠ Week 6 - Example of Juxtaposition

I get to found on that the usage of juxtaposition in our daily life. There's a lot. Just like the example that show by our lecturer, The "Lost" season 1 had applied juxtaposition in the drama itself.

I wanna share with you all, another example of story that had applied juxtaposition which is the famous love story "ROMEO AND JULIET".
  • youth and old age
  • servants and nobles
  • love-sick Romeo and fiery Tybalt
  • the noisy public feast and the private whispers of the lovers
  • Romeo's infatuation and Juliet's wit

Other than that these are the example of juxtaposition that i found on internet:
ANGELS AND DEMONS

Obesity/McDonald

Tuesday, August 3, 2010

♠ Week 6 - Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition is the placing of compositional elements side-by-side, with the intention of comparing or contrasting them. Base on my understanding, with two idea or character, i can combine them or make into one illustrations. Juxtaposition can be apply in emotion, abstract concepts or character.

Contrast is a relationship between discourse segments.
Lecturer had given us an example on it, which is:

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

"It's raining" implies that the speaker already know that it's raining and will prepare for it.
"but i'm not taking and umbrella" implies that the speaker will get wet since he or she didn't bring umbrella along.