Creative Studies...

Wednesday, January 12, 2011

Sketches

-------------------------Skethches that were done by my group mates including me..------------------------

LOGICAL MIND MAPs - What is Creative Multimedia

Essay: What is Creative Multimedia?

What is Creative Multimedia? Multimedia is media and content that uses a combination of different content forms. The term can be used as a noun (a medium with multiple content forms) or as an adjective describing a medium as having multiple content forms. The term is used in contrast to media which only use traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, still images, animation, video, and interactivity content forms.

Multimedia is usually recorded and played, displayed or accessed by information content processing devices, such as computerized and electronic devices, but can also be part of a live performance. Multimedia (as an adjective) also describes electronic media devices used to store and experience multimedia content. Multimedia is distinguished from mixed media in fine; by including audio, for example, it has a broader scope. The term "rich media" is synonymous for interactive multimedia. Hypermedia can be considered one particular multimedia application.

There are different types of Multimedia. Multimedia marketing is a marketing draw near with the aim of uses media other than the in black and white word to communicate a marketing message. Examples of multimedia formats include audio, capture on tape, and the function of photography or sideshows. Multimedia could be deployed in a variety of ways as well as both off-line and online. With the growth of the Internet, the function of multimedia as a marketing vehicle will go on with to grow by the side of an arithmetical rate. The record extensions commonly used to lay up multimedia documentation: MOV, MP4, FLV, M4A, 3GP, TORRENT, WMV, etc.

Besides that, multimedia finds its application in various areas including, advertisements, art, education, entertainment, engineering, and scientific research. Multimedia is heavily used in the entertainment industry, especially to develop special effects in movies and animations. Multimedia games are a popular pastime and are software programs available either as CD-ROMs or online. Some video games also use multimedia features. In the Arts, there are multimedia artists, whose minds are able to blend techniques using different media that in some way incorporates interaction with the viewer. In Education, they are useful for recorded or broadcast lectures, bringing in an expert speaker from a distant location, demonstrating processes that learners may not otherwise have the opportunity to see (such as a rare surgical technique), demonstrating techniques that learners will have to try themselves later (such as setting up laboratory equipment), recording students' performances to enable feedback and promote reflection, bringing the real world into the classroom. Multimedia is used to produce computer-based training courses and reference books like encyclopaedia and almanacs. Edutainment is an informal term used to describe combining education with entertainment, especially multimedia entertainment. Besides that, Software engineers may use multimedia in Computer Simulations for anything from entertainment to training such as military or industrial training. Multimedia for software interfaces are often done as collaboration between creative professionals and software engineers.

What are the relationship between human and multimedia? Multimedia is like a rubber or a bubble gum, it is very stretchable. They are lot of usage nowadays. Multimedia allows us save time, brings entertainments to us, support education, light up our life with music and fun games, allow us to interact with each other without face-to-face conversation, able to earn some incomes through multimedia too. On the other hand, multimedia do brings dangerous side effects like addiction to it until it caused death. We should use multimedia in a good way, make sure we are not addicted or infected by the addiction of multimedia viruses. Multimedia transforms nowadays, and make our daily life much more comfortable and easier.

In the Industrial sector, multimedia is used as a way to help present information to shareholders, superiors and co-workers. Multimedia is also helpful for providing employee training, advertising and selling products all over the world via virtually unlimited web-based technologies. In Medicine, doctors can get trained by looking at a virtual surgery or they can simulate how the human body is affected by diseases spread by viruses and bacteria and then develop techniques to prevent it.

Why use multimedia? Nowadays, video, audio and multimedia offer powerful means of communication. They are very good for showing what things look like, how they move and how they change, keeping an audience's interest, establishing personal contact, establishing the identity and academic credibility of a speaker, communicating the speaker's enthusiasm for the subject. Moving pictures are excellent for showing how things change or how something is done, for establishing a context for information (such as a landscape or a working environment) to make it easier for an audience to relate to what you are saying.

What is Creative Multimedia? The definition of “Creative” is having power to create thing such as drawings, books, web pages, videos, music and architecture. There are some creative thinking methods to be a successful creative person. First is Analytical thinking (breaking problems into parts); Vertical thinking (just like climbing a ladder); Strategic thinking (planning and directions); Lateral thinking (just like jumping from one ladder to another); Outcome thinking (attacking a task); Creative thinking (just like a light bulb) and Critical thinking (judgment or evaluation). These methods may help a person to be more creative, more successful.

(840 words)

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Lesson 2 - Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention

The creative person is one who generates new ideas while the creative process is how these new ideas, solutions, and inventions are produced. It is said that, we are all naturally creative. From poetry to building a house, from computer programming to humour, from music to science, creativity is manifested in a variety of different ways. The aim is to understand the complexity of creativity and to comprehend its mystery through a structured program of learning.

(Reference: Lesson123__Lecture_Notes_Cs.ppt)

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There are 4 types of creativity. Creative people fall into these 4 categories:

(1) Aesthetic Organizers.

(2) Boundary Pushers — those who take an existing idea and push it a little further.

(3) Inventors — those who take existing knowledge and create new ideas — the Edisons of this world.

(4) The rarest group: Boundary Breakers — the Leonardos and the Copernicuses.

A paraphrasing of Elliot Eisner (1933-), American art educator.

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Bill Gates

Picture above is Bill Gates, a very rich guy. Father of Microsoft, perhaps? Yes, indeed as he is the founder of Microsoft.

William Henry "Bill" Gates III (born October 28, 1955) is an American business magnate, philanthropist, author and chairman^[3] of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. He is consistently ranked among the world's wealthiest people and was the wealthiest overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third. During his career at Microsoft, Gates held the positions of CEO and chief software architect. He has also authored or co-authored several books.

Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. Although he is admired by many, a number of industry insiders criticize his business tactics, which they consider anti-competitive, an opinion which has in some cases been upheld by the courts. In the later stages of his career, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, established in 2000.

Bill Gates stepped down as chief executive officer of Microsoft in January 2000. He remained as chairman and created the position of chief software architect. In June 2006, Gates announced that he would be transitioning from full-time work at Microsoft to part-time work and full-time work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He gradually transferred his duties to Ray Ozzie, chief software architect and Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer. Gates' last full-time day at Microsoft was June 27, 2008. He remains at Microsoft as non-executive chairman.

(Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates)

This guy is really an inspiration. He started from young and now he is super successful.

Lesson 3 & 4: Mind Mapping

Mind mapping is a diagram used to represent words, ideas, tasks, or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure, and classify ideas, and as an aid to studying and organizing information, solving problems, making decisions, and writing.
(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map)

Example of a mind map:

(Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map)

Tony Buzan suggests using the following 10 guidelines for creating Mind Maps:

Start in the center with an image of the topic, using at least 3 colors.
Use images, symbols, codes, and dimensions throughout your Mind Map.
Select key words and print using upper or lower case letters.
Each word/image is best alone and sitting on its own line.
The lines should be connected, starting from the central image. The central lines are thicker, organic and flowing, becoming thinner as they radiate out from the centre.
Make the lines the same length as the word/image they support.
Use multiple colors throughout the Mind Map, for visual stimulation and also to encode or group.
Develop your own personal style of Mind Mapping.
Use emphasis and show associations in your Mind Map.
Keep the Mind Map clear by using radial hierarchy, numerical order or outlines to embrace your branches.

(Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map)

What I think of mind map:
- Interactive
- Easy to understand
- Easy to remember
- Colorful
- Mind map has 2 types:

(1) Logical Mind Map

The Logical Mind Map is directly connected to stereotypes & comprises of solely stereotype words. Which means that every word or image that is put within the mind map is directly related to the central subject through its links.

Example: