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Lecture #5: Design Basic and Principles

Principles of Visual composition: Continuity, Rhythm, Symmetry, Similarity, Enclosure, Proximity

Overview of the figure & ground and Piece & whole relationships

Assignment #4: Music to My Eyes (Vol.2)

I created this composition inspired by Fazıl Say's composition for Cello Sonato II Hopa. The composition consists of 5 minutes, but I used the 01.56-02.50 seconds interval of this composition in my composition. This piece reminded me of the harshness and dangers of the Black Sea. I used that interval because I thought the seconds interval I used reflected the waves very well. I preferred to use black, white and blue colors in my composition. In addition to black and white, I chose blue to represent the sea. 

 The meanings of the colors in this composition:

Black: I used the color black to represent the     harsh intro and gradations in the piece. 

White: I used the color white to represent sounds     that sound softer to me when I listen to the piece.

Blue: I used blue as the transition timbre     between white and black. Also, I used blue to represent the feeling     of the sea.

The meanings of geometrical shapes in this composition:

Triangles: I chose to use triangles for     high-pitched and sharp sounds.

Circles: I tried to show the soft and calm parts of     the piece with circles.

Squares: I used squares for sounds that sound     more dominant and fuller to my ear.

The idea behind my final composition is to make you feel the danger of imbalance in Black Sea waters.

Cello sonata II Hopa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8CBh516duI 

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Lecture #5 : Design Basics and Principles

Principles of Visual Composition: Continuity, Rhythm, Symmetry, Similarity, Enclosure, Proximity

Overview of the figure & ground and Piece & whole relationships.

FoR : Frame of Reference 

We were asked to arrange four circles of different colors on a PowerPoint slide according to the frame of reference. We created a composition by simply changing the colors of the circles without changing their size.

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(29 January 2019)

Today’s lecture topic is regarding the usage of social media platform in classroom and how it can affect the relationship between the students and the lecturer. The lecturer started off the lesson by asking us to form into a group of 5 and each group was given an article entitled, “Social Media & Classroom Engagement: Student’s Perception”. Each individuals need to participate actively by reading a paragraph each and to state the main points among the group members by the end of the reading task.

Here is the link related to the article given:

http://mediacritiques.net/index.php/jmc/article/view/83

 We were then given 2 questions related to this article which is, “What is the general conclusion of the article?” and “What do you personally think?” These questions were discussed together in the class. First of all, the usage of social media in classroom gives a positive effect to the student’s perception towards the lecturer. However, there are also the negative effects such as there are some lectures who tends to “stalk” a particular student’s social profile to look at their personal issues and involve it during the class. Based on my opinion, there is a benefit of using social media platform in class to a certain extend. The usage of social media platforms does not only allow lectures to play their role in the professional academia environment but it also allow them to build a closer bonding with the students.

 Aside from the article discussion, we were also given a task which is to make a minimum of 3 memes within the same group mates.

Here are the links given to make memes for free:

1.     www.imgflip.com

2.     www.livememe.com

3.     www.quickmeme.com

4.     http://wigflip.com/automotivator/

We were then asked to email the memes to the lecturer. The memes that were made was shared on spot in the class. It was a really interesting to see everyone’s creativity and the fact that we all shared the same humour. Last but not least, we were asked to state the potential ways and drawbacks of using memes in a learning context. Here are the list of potential ways and drawbacks:

·       Potential ways:

1.     Ice breaking.

2.     Make learning fun.

3.     Developed students creativity.

 ·       Potential drawbacks:

1.     Takes a lot of time to prepare.

2.     Have to make sure that it is relevant to the topic.

3.     Needs to be funny/understood.

 Today’s lesson had shown me that students doesn’t have to learn a particular subject in a stressful academia environment. Planning out a fun and educational activity in class can boost and enlighten the student’s day. As a future educator, it has given me an insight on the activities that I could apply to make the class a more fun, engaging and educational environment.

 Personally, I think that today’s lecturer content was really interesting and the activities planned by the lecturer was really fun and engaging. In this 21st era, despite we all shared the differences of interest, but we all shared one thing in common which is memes.

Multimedia Artifact

Acknowledgement 

Warner, B. (2015) Make Memes and Quotes with Your Class [online] available from <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=il9YO8Yz5kY> [30 January 2019]

1. How is race handled in Disney’s animated films and why does ‘white washing’ occur? 

2. Is Documentary animation inherently biased due to it’s creator being in full control of the imagery depicted?