Fandom

Fandom (a portmanteau consisting of fan [fanatic] plus the suffix -dom, as in kingdom) is a term used to refer to a subculture composed of fans characterized by a feeling of empathy and camaraderie with others who share a common interest.

Since in last lectorial we did talks a bit about fandom, it made me thinking, am I one of the fandom?

I am huge fans of any Tom Hanks and Morgan Freeman movies. I watch almost all their movies. The one that I love to watch most is The Shawshank Redemption. With Freeman’s iconic voice and unique ways of acting, it made me kind of fell in love with his acting. And I also follows him in real life. Short clips below which I found in YouTube is about Morgan Freeman.

 

“Morgan Freeman cannot be cloned. Because that would required unicorns tears.”

Morgan Freeman, Morgan Freeman, Morgan Freeman.

Cheers!

June 5, 2015 Reflections, Thought, Weekly Reflection No Comments on Fandom

First Meet Up

I was unable to meet up with Dylan and Daniel as scheduled before due to eyes infection. Dylan and Daniel were there in class and they are taking something in depth. They specifically fill up our collaborative contracts, talks about our group goals and what do we want to achieve in the next following week and they also did some discussions about the media artifact that we going to use in presenting our research topic.

One thing for sure is we have a strong communication among each other. Even though that I couldn’t make it for today’s meeting, Dylan did sent me an email to keep me updated and well informed of the ideas that we have been floating around. Those email sent turn out to be something crucial for us as it make sure that we do not suffer from any setback.

June 5, 2015 Project, Reflections, Thought, workshop No Comments on First Meet Up

First and the last group assignments for Media 1

Done with presenting our project brief 4 and received the feedback from Rachel and also my classmates, we were then straightly assigned for our final project brief 4. And wait, it’s a group work. So to cut the story short, I was assigned with Dylan and Daniel. This is our first time working together and it’s totally going to be another challenging yet fun to be done with those guys.

We were assigned with ‘audiences’. We need to pick a specific topic about this topic and present it using any media artifact as long as it is presentable. So we started by doing some discussion about this topic and frankly speaking we weren’t unable to choose any specific topic research about audience at first. We put that aside first since Rachel has stress about the ‘collaborative contract’ that we need to work on.

So basically this collaborative contract is something like an agreement contract on three of us. Thinking of when you want to make movie or something, the production definitely will give you some sort of contract agreement and both must have mutual agreement. And it is basically the same. So we went on and talk about it, what do we want to achieve, what each one of us need to do in order to achieve our target and our responsibility for this group.

I found this as a good things as I have never practice it before back in Malaysia. We decided to meet up the next Tuesday to discuss more about our research.

Cheers.

June 5, 2015 Project, Thought, workshop No Comments on First and the last group assignments for Media 1

Storytelling

I assumed that most of you have watched the latest series of Fast Furious, Fast 7. It was a great ones and it also left me wonder, how can a great director such as James Wan creates such a masterpiece?

Daniel today speaks about causality, which also known as the cause and effects of a story. Causality is the idea that one event causes another, and that in turn causes another and so on. He then broke the idea of ‘causality’ in narrative media down into three parts: plot, resolution and character development. These are the three importance elements in a storytelling.

If you one of the movies geeks, you must have aware that the climax is always towards the ends, and it is pretty obvious. Just imagine a movies starts with a climax, I am pretty sure it will get boring towards the end, depending on how the director narrates the movies. For instance, in Shawshank Redemption, the movies starts with how Andy ended up being in a prison. He then met with Red and several prisoners. This is what we called as character development. The story went on and how the director plays with the plots left the triggered to know the resolution of the story. Resolution is basically what happens in the entire movies.

Narrating a movies is not an easy job. Yes, everyone can create a story but what makes the movies beautiful is how it is done and how can it relate the audiences with the message want to be delivered.

p/s : James Wan is a Malaysian and he is a RMIT graduates!

Salute!

April 29, 2015 Reflections, Thought, Weekly Reflection No Comments on Storytelling

Project Brief #3 Peer Review

That feeling when Rachel open up my blog to show my Project Brief 3 to the whole class was, nerve wrecking. I don’t know what to expect from my classmates since they have shown some cool and good piece of videos.

After we have viewed my videos and also others, we had some small talk in a group of 5 reviewing the work have done. In overall, they pretty much like my video but of course, there still also some improvement I can do according to them.

Maggie told that my opening shot was too long, up until 15 seconds. I agreed with her since I personally thinks that it should have be much more shorter so that the audiences doesn’t have to wait too long to know what is all about. She added that maybe I can add some dialogue overlaying the shot of Aiman playing the guitar.

Bianca said that he love the soundtrack as it suits well with the videos. Rob said he love the stock footage I have chose for this project as he can’t differentiate much between the original footage and stock ones. He also love where all the shots are properly organised and he feels like I actually do the shooting in Japan.

Here are the links of my peer’s projects. Go and check them out!

Bianca, used her neighbor as her subject matter for this project. How lucky she was to have a tarot card reader as a neighbor and able to produce an amazing piece of video to cover his fascinating and one of a kind possessions.

Here is Sandy‘s. She was pretty worried by choosing her mother as a subject matter but I can say that she have done some good work to cover her mother’s life and experiences in a 2 minutes short of videos.

I can say that the ones that I love and enjoyed watching is Maggie‘s. I thinks she have produce a good and quality pieces of videos. Just like me, she chose her best friend as her subject and the ways she portrayed his best friend was very creative. I love the way how she narrates her video and how she used flipping books to cover the life of her best friend.

https://youtu.be/9V3pBO1IpKY

Unfortunately, one our our friend, Rob was pretty busy lately and wasn’t able to upload his on time. Hopefully he can do that later and I definitely going to link in here. Stay tune for that!

Cheers!

April 28, 2015 Project, Reflections, Thought, Uncategorized, workshop No Comments on Project Brief #3 Peer Review

Last minute … as always

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So I managed to finish my Project Brief 3 but as usual, I will wait until the last minutes, typical me. Well I am pretty sure I am not the only one who do this but for the most of you out there. Some of you might think that waiting until the last minutes to finish up your work is no good. I do think the same too but for me, as long as you know what you need to do and prioritize what is most important first, then I am sure you will be fine.

What’s up with my next brief? Keep updates with my latest post later.

 

Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute!

April 22, 2015 Project, Thought No Comments on Last minute … as always

Project Brief 2_Media Self Portrait

MEdia Self Potrait 2 from Ariff Nordin on Vimeo.

What I am trying to portray through this 60 second edited video is the journey of me, myself in this world. I am a survivor and throughout the journey, there are lots of experiences I would like to explore. To try out and discover new things and to explore everything possible. Through this video as well, I want to show to the audience that I am an independent man, a man who can stand on its own two feet and the man who enjoys doing all the things he loved, the man who always seek for a new adventure in life, the man who knows not that it is not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong, even when you are not. No matter how far you have walked on this planet, there is always one thing we need to be sure of and that is that we, are our own self who creates the destiny of our future, with our bare hands and own head.

I used Adobe Premiere Pro CS6 to edit this project. I used this application before back in Malaysia when I was editing one of my short films assignments. I gathered most of the materials I used for Project Brief 1 and two new videos to make it more interesting, hopefully. I used the time lapse feature on my iPhone, showing the current world I am living in and the journey I am walking through now, in Melbourne. All the photographs are basically telling you about me, an extrovert, a person who loves new adventure, challenges and being sociable. Also, I have added some narratives of a conversation between some of my friends and I, with the subtitle included in order to make the audiences understand of what we are actually conversing about. I downloaded an acoustic audio track from Freesound.org and made it as the soundtrack for my video as I am an acoustic lover, and also I found that it suits surprisingly well with my video.

In my personal thought, I do think that the most successful part of my video is the time lapse. Well I know it is just a feature in my phone, but the real deal is when I need to sit there waiting for about 45 minutes just to gather a 30 seconds worth of footage. Unintentionally, I found that by adding such feature, it gave my video more meaning. Well on the other side, the least successful attempt of my self portrait is the photograph material. I personally think that it could be more meaningful and purposeful.

March 30, 2015 Project, Thought, Uncategorized, workshop No Comments on Project Brief 2_Media Self Portrait

Lectorial #4

Interesting and informative I must say. We had some sort of an editing game in lectorial week 4 the other day. What basically we need to do in a group of 3 or 3 is to create a narrative by using only 5 cards. The tricky and interesting part is when we need to narrate using 5 cards at first. then add a ‘turning point’ by replacing a cards to either cards number 2,3, or 4 and each one of it are moveable. And lastly, we need to create another introduction and conclusion.

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My personal opinion is, most of the editor are the creative ones. I mean, I seriously had some trouble when we asked to add the ‘turning point’ cards. It just a simple plots, but as an editor who edit thousand of artworks, they really need to be creative and critically thinking as they need to think what the readers or audiences think about when they read or see certain artworks.

So yeah, credits to all the creative thinker out there!

March 30, 2015 Reflections, Thought, Weekly Reflection No Comments on Lectorial #4

Deep Vs Hyper Attention

Based on the text we were given, I can conclude that deep attention is when someone only able to concentrate on a single things they do, for example reading a book without any interference and be able to stay there for quite some long times. He or she is able to ignore all outside interference and prefer to be focus on one single major project he or she is working on.

Meanwhile hyper attention is basically characterized by the ability to switch focus rapidly. The easiest example I can give is when you are play a video games while be able to talk with your friends at the same time. These type of people usually are multitasking, means they can do two or three works at the same period of time.

From what I have observed within myself, I am practically more into deep attention person. I found it is hard for me to get my works or assignments done when there are someone around. I need to stay focus within one work and when I got the jobs done, then only I can switch to any other tasks.

So, where do you fall in? Deep or hyper?

Look within and figure it yourself.

Cheers!

March 14, 2015 Thought, Weekly Reflection No Comments on Deep Vs Hyper Attention

First Week. Well Hello RMIT!

My first day here in RMIT was a little bit confusing since I have to figure out where is the lecture hall just depending on the Campus Maps provided. As I entered Building 80, I was amazed by how beautiful and magnificent it was. Somehow I do feel proud and happy to be here in RMIT.

As I entered the hall alone, I set all my bag and books properly preparing for the lecture. Trying to act cool (which definitely I failed to do so), I try to approach some of the students sitting next to me. I was afraid of not being accepted by them but luckily I found that they are nice actually. We introduced ourselves and do some a little bit of kind of small ice breaking sessions, just to know each other before the lecture starts. Personally I do wonder on how the teaching method would be like in here since I am an international students and definitely it’s definitely going to be different from the college I was from.

As the lectorial goes on, I found it was very unique since almost all the lecturers teaching this Media course are in the same room with all of us. Media 1 lectorial was fun with a little bit of introductions and jokes to makes us feel welcomed. We were then asked to set up a blog for our courses. Well, as a media students and as a media practitioners going to be, we were thought that most of the time your work going to be publicly viewed, and with this blog, I do personally believe that it is one way to convey what you want to say, what do you think, what you can improve or in a simple terms, a reflections on what you have learned and practiced.

Questions that kept popping out of my mind is how do I start. Blogging is not something new for me since I used to have a blog way back when I was in high school, which is around almost 10 years ago. And the other thing is, what should I write about? Should it be formal? Informal? Should I keep it simple or just should it be like an academic writing essay? I am not a big fans of writing and I will take it as challenge and as one ways to improve myself in writing.

Being a international students is challenging since I have to adapt myself with different cultures and environment. The first week is always difficult as I need to adjust myself with the people surrounds. As time goes by, I believe that I can gain as much as I want in this media industry and hopefully be able to practice it back in Malaysia.

Cheers!

March 14, 2015 Reflections, Thought No Comments on First Week. Well Hello RMIT!
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