Squeeze Your Brain With These

For those who have missed the last part of our Wednesday's class, you gotta read the below Voting Criteria of Prix Jeunesse as it helps a lot on finalizing concepts and ideas for our Final Year Project! :)

Considering the territory, culture and age range for which the programme is intended:

TARGET AUDIENCE

• Is it appropriate and attractive?
• Is it successfully entertaining?
• Does it inform?
• Does it respect the target audience/ take them seriously?
• Does it empower the target audience?

IDEA

• Is it interesting?
• Is it original?
• Does it have a new approach? Is it fresh?
• Does it motivate the viewer?
• Does it achieve its objective/ purpose?

SCRIPT

• Is the structure/ balance good?
• Is the subject well research and developed?
• Is the dialogue of high quality?
• Are the characters well developed? Are their actions motivated?

REALIZATION

• Is the idea well translated to television? (Visual style, camera work, style, editing, music of performance, etc.)

• Is the pace/ rhythm of the programme successful?
• Is television the best medium for this idea?

P/S: Thanks for sharing, Ms. Siew Wai!

Joujou + Shugi Toys & Collectibles Market @ Soho KL

Hey FA-ians. To those whom are Art, Craft & Toys/Figures enthusiasts, there will be an upcoming bazaar at KL this weekend! I'll be there so... hope to see some of you guys there too =]



More details at http://www.joujouandshugis.blogspot.com

The word joujou means toys in French whereas the word shugi is Japanese for craft. Just so now you know the meanings of these two beautiful words, let's get on the more exciting part.

There, pen this down!

ARTrage Lab @ Soho KL
by Bijou Bazaar
in conjunction with Soho KL Grand Launch

Dates: 29 & 30 November 2008 weekend
Venue: North Atrium, Soho KL, Solaris Mont'Kiara, 2 Jalan Solaris, 50480 Kuala Lumpur
Operating Hours: 12 pm - 9 pm

Here's a map:




For retail enquiries or to rent a space:

Toys + Collectibles (Joujou + Shugi)
Contact Person: Vivian
E-mail: joujouandshugi@gmail.com

SRI Site for FAians!

ALL Final Year FA students doing SRI, please go to this site:
http://designresearch-fcm.blogspot.com/

Thank you.

- Dr. Ken Neo

Chinese Food in MMU campus

Dear Students and Friends,

First of all, hurray for the new-in-business Chinese food store in MMU Cyberjaya campus! I've worked here since April 2006 and this is the first time a genuine Chinese food store is in business. I'd really like it to stay in business but it is located away from all the food centres that you all usually go, I'm afraid it doesn't have enough business. So ... forgive me of using the FA blog to help advertising this food store in MMU!

The food store is located right across the newly built running tracks/swimming pool area. They serve rice with selected dishes (nasi campur), and also serve fried or soup noodles on request. Please come support the one and only authentic Chinese food store in MMU!

Besides, there's also a new Iranian food store in the same lot.

Enjoy good food, it helps your overall well-being :)


Cheers,
Siew Wai

Shameless Self Promotion

Too small? Then view original version here.

Just something I did during lulls in internship.

The scariest thing about this animation was how well the music fit the ending. I never had a particular track in my mind when I created this animation. When I plopped in Sea Breeze by Sergei Mantis, I was expecting a horrible cut in the end of the animation.

Well, all comments are welcomed good or bad. Hope you enjoy this nonsensical piece of animation.

Calling for submissions - 3D BITES: A Short Film Competition

Okay, competitions are coming in thick and fast. Deadline for this is just around the corner: 31st October 2008. Attractive prizes. STUDENTS ONLY. Please read through the poster. Interested? Please email me (azman.zg@gmail.com OR azman.zulkiply@mmu.edu.my) and I'll get back to you ASAP with the entry forms and competition r&r (Apparently I can't find the web version of this).

*UPDATE* The original requirement of minimum 2 minute video duration has been to changed to minimum 1 minute. *UPDATE*

Internship Presentation Schedule!!! (FA only)

Jiang jiang jiang jiang!!!

To FA Delta Fellas (who have just finished internship recently)...
I went to the FCM office today and snapped the photos of our presentation time-slot list. In case you guys dunno when + where your internship presentation is...

Here is where u can find out!

win a wacom bamboo fun

Search and Win or Refer and Win! Win a Wacom Bamboo Fun from Inmagine.

The 3D stereo shortfilm challenge

Stereo movie is just easy to be created with Maya settings in "Maya 2008". Don't be scared by the title, just double up the render time and you will get your STEREO MOVIE! Let's challenge it!!

Offical website: http://www.invazion.org/

"Aniwow! 2008"

"ANIWOW" is an Animation Festival happening in Beijing from 22nd till 25th October, 2008.

If you are interested, please watch the deadline as it is just around the corner: 7th October 2008! What makes it easy and fast is that the submission is through FTP (less than 50MB).

Check out their homepage for more info! Take this chance!!!