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What is multimedia? Multimedia is media that uses a combination of different forms. Multimedia includes a combination of text, audio, images, animation, video and interactivity content forms. Multimedia can be used in various areas such as advertisements, art, education, entertainment, web design and so on. It is widely used nowadays in which they enhances our living lifestyles.

Can multimedia enhance creativity in one self? According to an Experimental Investigation of Emotion Generated by Dance Dance Revolution, It is widely acknowledge that media, including image, music, text, video games, generate an emotional response. Emotional response is a reaction to a particular intrapsychic feeling that motivates some action or behavioral response. Reeves and Nass (1996) showed in the studies that people relate to computers and video games in ways that are similar to how they relate to people in the real world, which is with emotion. Gee (2003) suggests that video games operate with principles of learning that encourage active and critical thinking. The generation population that is expose to video games became smarter and more thoughtful yet increases their capacity for creativity. According to a research that was conducted by Dance Dance Revolution on video games players, after players played the game, a classic, two-dimensional model of emotion was created and the emotion can be dissected into the dimensions of valence and arousal. Valence is the extent to which a study participant feels positive or negative after a mood manipulation and arousal is the extent to which a participant feels energized either physically or mentally. It is said that moderate levels of game-induced arousal will facilitate creativity more than high and low levels of arousal. Valence, otherwise called affect in the emotion literature, is thought to prime related thoughts, and since the average person has more positive thoughts than negative thoughts, a positive affect will generate more new ideas than negative affect. A theory that partly based on a series of studies ( Isen Daubman, & Nowicki, 1984, 1958, 1987) found people in whom positive affect had been induced outperformed those who control their thought. They tended to give more unusual first associates to neutral words or give more out of the box ideas and found more solutions to problem- solving tasks. Playing video games and other multimedia tend to create positive mood rather than negative mood, and positive mood will definitely increase the number of original ideas produced. Multimedia does boost ones creativity.

Multimedia plays a vital role in education helping students to build up their creativity at a very young age. In a traditional classroom, teachers play a dominant role as they provide all the information needed to students. Students on the other hand, are passive learners and follow teacher’s instruction blindly. But today’s world has changed so much when Communication and Information Technology (ICT) is incorporated into teaching and learning. Students are now more active and they play an important role in learning with the help of multimedia. According to Papert (1996), young people’s access to information is more interactive and they learn for the pleasure and benefits of discovery. For example, students learn through slides that were shown to them during class and through the Internet, they obtain wide range of information and special ideas. Besides that, Scrimshaw (2004) also points that the implementation of ICT in the classroom is “both an innovation in technology and teaching”. Multimedia that is a combination of text, graphic, sound, animation and video is a powerful presentation tool, which can be effectively used for teaching and it is easier for students to absorb. By using method, learning can be livelier, because it is a give and take process, students involve more throughout the process causing them to think more and be more creative. Now students are more independent in learning, they will find the way to solve problems and think outside the box when needed. When students are no more spoon-fed by teachers, they need to work and think harder, the more they think and imagine, they become more creative. According to Vaughan (1997), students are stimulated with audio, they will have about 20% retention rate, audio-visual is up to 30% and in interactive multimedia presentation, the retention rate is up to 60%. Hence, multimedia tools can enhance many skills such as, communication, critical thinking and most importantly, creativity.

There’s certainly a lot more to say about Multimedia. Multimedia web designing for example, as we know, multimedia consists of text, graphics, audio, photo images, animations, video and many more. All of these are what we used nowadays for making a dynamic multimedia websites. When the components play together, the outcome is very interesting and attractive. When such elements are incorporated in a website design, the site becomes interactive and appealing. Based on the article written by Cyrus Bilimoria (2008), depending on the objective and the message that you would want to convey to your targeted audiences, you need to select the media elements to be used in the Multimedia web Design. In order to attract audiences into the particular website, creativity must be applied in such circumstances, which is why creativity also plays an important role in web designing.

In conclusion, multimedia helps in enhancing creativity in on self, and also plays a vital role to build up their creativity at a very young age. As in global competition, not only it changes in the field of education, multimedia helps business fields to learn technology and transfer the learning to future entrepreneurs. Not only multimedia can bring entertainment and interactivity, it is prior to build an advanced environment in the future.

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Mind Map

General Mind map










Focus Mind map

Sketches

These are the final compositions we chose after the consultation session with Mr. Radzi. These compositions will be used in our final flash animation.

Sketches

The method we used is: Random word and the random word we chose was Puzzle.












The method we used is :Metaphor, the rubric cube represent our brain and the wire shows how multimedia enhance our creativity.












The method we use is :Metaphor, the television, computer, music and game controller represent multimedia and how they instill creativity into our mind.












The method we used is :Metaphor, the brain nerves transform into leaves showing how our creativity blossoms with the help of multimedia.












The method we used is :Random word and the random words we chose were protractor and ruler.












The method we used is :Random word and the random word we chose was Headphone.












The method we used is :Random word and the random word we chose was Circuit.























The method we used is :Metaphor, the brain represents creativity and the clips are transmitting ideas into the brain.












The method we used is :Random word and the random word we chose was Gentleman.

Lesson 6: Juxtaposition 2

In last week's lecturer had teach about the juxtaposition, it means the placement of two things next to one another. It can be used to describe anything. While in this week's lecture, we had learned that juxtaposition action also can be separate into two, analogy and oxymoron

What is Analogy?

Analogy is to use something familiar to explain a complex matter. As defined an analogy is "reasoning or explaining from parallel cases." Put another way, an analogy is a comparison between two different things in order to highlight some point of similarity.

There are two categories of analogies which is logical analogies and expressed analogy.
- simile
- metaphor

Metaphor
A figure of speech in which an implied comparison is made between two unlike things that actually have something in common. A metaphor expresses the unfamiliar (the tenor) in terms of the familiar (the vehicle ). When Neil Young sings, "Love is a rose," "rose" is the vehicle for "love," the tenor. (In cognitive linguistics, the terms target and source are roughly equivalent to tenor and vehicle.

example : "The streets were a furnace, the sun an executioner." (Cynthia Ozick, "Rosa")

Simile
A figure of speech in which two fundamentally unlike things are explicitly compared, usually in a phrase introduced by like or as.

example : "Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep."
(Carl Sandburg)

What is oxymoron

A figure of speech in which incongruous or contradictory terms appear side by side; a compressed paradox

Example : "The phrase 'domestic cat' is an oxymoron."
(George Will)


source : http://grammar.about.com/sitesearch.htm?terms=oxymoron&SUName=grammar&TopNode=99


Personal Reflection
The class is ended early today and a bit bored due to the way of lecturer teaching is lack of interactive.

Lesson 5: Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition is the placement of two things next to one another. It can be used to describe anything from colors to balloons or even people. Besides that, it also means capturing the relationship between subjects in a photo so that each part of the image has some bearing on and relativity to the other. So, it is usually done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasing or opposing elements are used.

Example of juxtaposition :







example of how Juxtaposition can show how the same thought or object is interpreted in two different ways is love and jealousy. Love is the pen - ultimate emotion and feeling in anime. It's what makes the world go round, and it is the force that can topple.

source : http://hubpages.com/hub/Understanding-Juxtaposition-in-photography

Personal Reflection

Juxtaposition was a new to me. It helps me in stimulating creativity thinking.

The whole class was a bit bored and more of powerpoint slides that made us feel sleepy~

Lesson 3: Logical Mind Map

Base on Wikipedia, a mind map 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 in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing.

The elements of a given mind map are arranged intuitively according to the importance of the concepts, and are classified into groupings, branches, or areas, with the goal of representing semantic or other connections between portions of information. Mind maps may also aid recall of existing memories.

By presenting ideas in a radial, graphical, non-linear manner, mind maps encourage a brainstorming approach to planning and organizational tasks. Though the branches of a mindmap represent hierarchical tree structures, their radial arrangement disrupts the prioritizing of concepts typically associated with hierarchies presented with more linear visual cues. This orientation towards brainstorming encourages users to enumerate and connect concepts without a tendency to begin within a particular conceptual framework.

The mind map can be contrasted with the similar idea of concept mapping. The former is based on radial hierarchies and tree structures denoting relationships with a central governing concept, whereas concept maps are based on connections between concepts in more diverse patterns.

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_map

Example of mind map :

This is the mind map about myself...

Lesson 2 : Novelty, Creativity, Innovation and Invention.

Novelty



Innovation



Invention



Creativity



Novelty -Novelty is the quality of being new. Although it may be said to have an objective dimension.

Innovation - Innovation is a new way of doing something or "new stuff that is made useful".

Creativity - Creativity is a mental process involving the discovery of new Ideas or concepts.

Invention - An Invention is a new composition, device , or process.

source : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novelty
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creativity
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention

I'm quite confuse when lecturer was teaching in the class...