This semester I have learnt a new thing which is MAX. At the start of this class, I was having no idea that why Light and camera is learning about writing something like computer program codes. But after all the studies in this semester, I knew media is about creative minds. The lighting and camera is not only the way I used to think, the machine and filming. 

I felt MAX was quite cool while I was learning this in the class. It could be anything that I want it to be. The 3-D model, the camera acoustic control or the the keys from the keyboard and also the interactive Art. I have deeper understanding about Interactive Art. At first, I thought interactive Arts was just for fun and easy to make it. But it is not. The idea of the Art from the creator is giving people who look at the Art deeper thinking about the society or themselves. The way people used to think about one thing, the creator used Interactive Art to show people in more simple ways. When I was doing my first study of this work. I made two windows, each window can be changed into two different colours which I wanna to tell people everyone could be in different “colors” no matter who you are, you need to be yourself. So that based on this idea my group members and I created the first assignment group work. We used nine windows to film people who look at this work and these nine windows shows people in many different ways, shapes or colours. But there is another window beside those nine windows which is the original window without any filter, colour for shape to reflect audiences. We use this work to tell people the person yourself is the best. After the assesigemnt one I learnt about sound control, facial recognition system codes that could make audience “handsfree” while they look at the Art works. 

The most successful part of this semester’s studying is I learnt how to think a bout an Art work as well as the most important thing—creative minds. Creative mind went through my whole study of this semester. In another hand, the idea of an Arte work is very important too. Just like my major project. I just put a window that is slow motion and a time counter which runs faster than the clock usually runs. I just want to use this project to tell people that when you are wasting your time or do your work slowly the time is passing much faster than you think it should be as well as Camille told me. The work does not need to be so fancy. The purpose of the work is the most important. Camille also gave a huge help at my every project, I feel really grateful about this. 

Overall, this semester I really learnt a lot about creative, codes, interactive Arts and MAX. I think in my future study I would use it often for lighting control or filming something. This is quite an interesting subject to learn.