Task 3 - Pre-Production (Animation 2 Part 1)

Task 3 - Pre-Production

Storyboard Sketching and Idea Generation
After getting the topic the idea is generated instantly in my mind because it's my hometown and I have lived there for 23 years. The idea is influenced by a few motion graphics example that I have seen as research and used the flow as a reference.

This is the final version of the storyboard with colour and a more detailed flow, the orientation for the storyboard is a bit messed up because I drew it wrongly at the beginning, it starts from top left to top right and continue at bottom right to bottom left the red arrow will guide the flow.

That is the storyboard and here is the moodboard with a more detailed version of the movement

Pop Culture (Visual Communication)

Pop Culture (Visual Communication)

Short for Popular Culture

It is entirely out of practices, attitudes that are mainstream given by a society. Heavily influenced by media and social networks as it permeates the everyday lives of a give society.

Young adults and teenagers are the mostly influenced in this culture as they tend like to follow "trend" as a way of getting the up to date styles and movements in the world. The other societies like the religious groups tend to deem them as superficial, corrupted and consumerist, these societies despise the pop culture trend.

Pop culture can change extremely fast or stay awhile for a very long time depending on how big the culture influence the world. The easiest example for this is "K-POP"

K-pop influence is humongous and has lasted from 2009 till today and still growing strong. The main reason behind this the power of social medias like Youtube helps the promotion and infected the younger generation by showing them something new, catchy and colourful.

Social medias like Youtube.com allows them to see the current pop-culture with videos, tutorials and parodies. Website 9gag.com is a humor based website that discuss and focus on pop-culture mainly and also last but not least Facebook.com is the main site that pop-culture expand as teenagers find something interesting and shares with his/her friends slowly but surely creating the possibilities of a upcoming pop-culture.

Overview Week 7 (Visual Communication)

Overview

In this week, the small project Symbol making has come to an end and the everything is done and ready for the report. Through the process of this, I have learn the difference of symbol and icon even though sometimes they are very closely related.

Symbol has a cultural meaning behind it or a story while Icon is a more basic and general explanation for something or someone.

Out of all that I also discovered that creating a logo or a symbol is not easy as even a simple logo requires lots of research and thinking to make it a good logo or symbol. I learn this from the symbol making project that I've done for the project report. Something that I will not forget anytime soon

Other than that I learn many stories of other logos that never did come to my mind before and how the logo is created and how are they related to the company or organization.

After 7 weeks, the module is full of discovery and fun looking forward for the next task research report

Mantin Town Infographic (Graphic Design 2 Part 1)

Mantin Town Infographic (Graphic Design 2 Part 1)

Given with the task of creating an infograph using the data I've collected during my brief visit to Mantin town. Here I have created a simple infographic on the density of the number of people in the town and the vicinity of the town during the day

Using only images to depict the place and interesting spots in the town such as petrol station and police station and a simple navigation around the town

Symbol Process (Visual Communication)

Symbol Process (Visual Communication)

After the finalization of the sketch the drawing is converted into Adobe Illustrator with different colour schemes and shapes

After the colour experiment, the next trial was on Ratio between the stigma and the petals

finally the shape of the flower is then changed to a more geometrical theme rather than naturalistic theme

With these multiple experiment the final design is chosen and compared using scales and black and white colours

Logo Sketching (Visual Communications)

Logo Sketching (Visual Communications)

Selecting the Hibicus as the symbol that I want to rebrand here are the few sketches that I have created for the idea

Mantin Research (Graphics Design 2 Part 1)

Mantin Research (Graphics Design 2 Part 1)

On the trip to Mantin town to gather some data and information, here are some pictures that was taken during that trip. As the picture shows the focal point of the pictures are the main road of Mantin town.

The town is made up by the main road itself, most of the shops are located by the side on the road and most of the housing areas are only accessible via the main road making the road the 'backbone' of the town. There are old building like the Hakka Village, a church although they have refurbish the place and a old school located beside the Village.

The town has shop lots along the road from food to clothings. Mantin also has a few ochards and fruit stalls along the road before entering the town and flower gardens after leaving the town. This road is not just a part of Mantin, it is Mantin.

Most folks works in places like Kuala Lumpur which is far away while others works in Seremban or Nilai. The town is still packed during the days with passerbys and college staffs or students

With a few tamans around the road the town is bound to be filled with people from various places, not to mention there is also a college nearby, staffs and student will come to the town for food, researches and also shopping.