Reflection

After finish this assignment, I got some new skills and found ways to get inspiration, the most important thing is I realize that sometimes the way people think is just one-side view, we need to discuss with people around us and exchange idea, new information always inspires people. My growth environment may influence me that do not have much creative thinking, after I chose this class, I started to try to do something to be more creative and get divergent thinking.

 

When we start to do study 4, my group members decided to do a program that about extreme emotion of human, one of my group members proposed that we can make two emotion, smile and angry, then set a voice induction system which can detect the volume then change the to make the picture change to smile or angry face. After that me and my group members had a great idea with this project, we decided to make this to a ‘class warning system’, which can be a reminder to some people that when their volume in the class is loud and may interfere other classmate, we made the induction system to be sensitive, when the voice be a designated volume, the smile face will change to a red face, then there is a camera can catch the person and stop in that moment. That is an interesting work for us, when our teacher helping us, we also got some technical improve.

 

When finished study 4, we had a chance to show our work and see other classmates’ work and get some more idea and suggestions. There were lots of great works I saw, I admire their creativity and imagination, some of their program even can be a real interactive art not just exercise like ours. After some classmates experienced our program, they suggested us to adjust the sensitivity to be stronger to make it to be more sensitive, and they think when they shout to the computer, they don’t feel angry but embarrassed, so some of them think we can change the angry face to be a awkward face. on that class we got lots of great advices.

 

The most interesting and useful lesson is we went to the ACMI and an exhibition to get some inspiration. That was useful and really inspired me on the doing the main project. I decided to make a simple game base on a console game that I played in ACMI center. My teacher helped me a lot on this work, and I used some monster pictures on it, to make the program looks cute.

 

The facts prove that I’m improving. from last assignment to this assignment, I learned that the idea is more important than technology, when the time I saw other classmates’ distinctive program, and also when I was viewing the interactive art and exhibition in ACMI, I tried to understand the productions in some other ways which is not the way I think usually. Realize to get creative thinking and try to get divergent thinking is the biggest progress in this step.

 

There are lots of things that I need to improve and be aware, I found that when I approach some new or challenge things, such as about using Max, I will not be active to explore the new functions by myself, but rely on the help from the teacher. I also find that I have been simplifying my initial ideas for reduce the difficulty. So, the next time I think I should try to watch more videos online and download some materials, that may make my program be more interesting and have more possibilities. I also realize that this is a good chance to physically put our ideas into action when we use this. The manipulation is also necessary, because when I got a bunch of ideas but don’t know how to present them, that’s a really disappointing thing, although I said that creative thinking is more important than technology.

 

Overall, this assignment is definitely better than the last one, and also added more creative ideas into the work to make it be vivid. I looking forward to learn more about using max 7 and create more amazing interactive art in the future.

 

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