Brain Storming

Our group (which consists of Hitomi, Su jin, Dama and I) has decided to design a campaign for the Kids Help Line which is

Australia's only free, confidential and anonymous, telephone and online counselling service specially for young people aged between 5 and 25.

We found that the making of a short video would be great for promoting this organization. We are still brain storming the content and style of the video at this stage, and the following two videos which are the TV commercials of Sony, I found they are quite interesting.

Both commercials are very professional and obviously these large scale ads. were made by huge budget and involve lots of special technical effects. Although the short video which our group is going to make does not the same scale as them, our group's video can use the same concept that is using simple style to bring out the key theme (for them is the celebration of colour) and in the Sony's ads, they don't have any script which break the boundary of language.

New Semester Begins =]

Hello everyone.

My 4th semester has just started and I will continue to post more entries here to talk about my design ideas as well as research notes of video-making for COMM416.

So, welcome to my blog again. Enjoy.

Spread of Love (Blog Critique)

Recently I found a blog titled “Sandee… I Will Survive” which is written by Sandee who has been diagnosed with breast cancer stage II in 1998. After the many rounds of chemotherapy and radiation treatments, the cancer surprisingly spread to her bones and liver through the blood stream one year later. Sandee felt even more frustrated and fear when she discovered her lungs were also infected by the cancer in 2004. Yet, Sandee didn’t lose her hope, she keep fighting with her illness and all the side effects of the treatments because she understand she can not make her family and friends upset, especially her 3 children. Until this moment, Sandee is still dealing with the cancer treatments.

In the blog, Sandee recorded her days and the painful experiences of fighting with the cancer since October 2006. Although these days are hard for her, it is surprised that her words are full of hope and thankfulness. Everyday she express her gratitude to others and thanks for all the positive things happened on her, just on 3rd September this year, she thanks for her 9 years survival which is extremely remarkable.

Her positive attitude and determined will expressed in the blog gives support to people with similar situation as well as the people around them. The blog is a platform for them to share their experience and spread the message of love, thankfulness and care to others.

I really appreciate the courage and attitude of Sandee as well as what she has contributed to the society. Even she is the victim of cancer, she doesn’t get upset and blame the unfortunate things. She turns this negative experience into a positive force in the community. In the blog, I strongly feel the message of ‘never give up’ and ‘give thanks’ in every blog entries. It could be this love that filled in Sandee’s mind that makes her survive until now.

This blog also remind ordinary people that they should cherish their own health and people around them. Nowadays, most of the people are so busy with their life, like the pursuit of fame and fortune, thus, they do not pay attention to what happened around them. Yet, it is always too late when the consequences carried out, for example the breaking up of relationship with others, the discovery of sickness, etc.

Through this blog, I have learned that I should always keep an optimistic attitude towards unpleasant situation. For me, I always think of the negative side of one thing, indeed it can not improve the situation. However, if I can look at the opposite side and think another way round, this could be a powerful positive force that can influence others around me.

I strongly recommend this blog to you and hope this meaningful blog would also give you some inspiration about your life.

Memory

I am a kind of person who forget everything very easily, from tiny things like what did I eat last night to what is my mobile phone no. Before I am naively believe it is good, so that I can forget all the unhappy things or unhappy experiences happened on me quickly, however, now I found the loss of memory is not that good indeed.

1. There should be something good happened in your life and you should memorize them which could cheer you up when you are down.

2. You should always remember those mistakes you have made since you have to learn from them.

3. Never forget the harm that you have done on others because you need to remind yourself not to do them again.

It is time to be mature and not to use 'forget' as the excuse when I did something wrong. I need to bear the responsibility and consequences. I have just discover that I forget the expiry day for the lent book of library, thus I need to pay the huge amount of fine. However, I totally understand that many things in the world cannot be solved so easy. So, hope that I can remember things better lateron.

How about training my brain by doing soduku?

Maybe it helps.

Week 11

Finally week 12 is coming and the semester 3 is going to finish. Have you decided what to do for the holiday?
I look forward to this coming one month holiday, but not feeling as excited as last time when I wait for the last semester break. I really want to have a "meaningful" holiday, at least find something concrete to do. For example, find a job or find something to learn.
But still until this moment, I don't have any ideas how can I spend this vacation.

I found it so funny that I even need to find something to "do" in my holiday. Holiday should be a time to relax and take rest (maybe prepare for the next semester). Yet, it seems a waste of time to stay at home and do nothing.

But before the holiday, we still got 2 weeks to go which is the hardest period. Thousands of assignments are waiting for me, but if there is no stress and workload, we wouldn't cherish the holiday.
So, hope that everything would be alright and enjoy the holiday 2 weeks later (a wish for every lovely classmates!!)

Learn something NEW

Since I need to find a podcast for my presentation in class. It is my first time to use iTunes. I have heard about this program for a long time already. Before, I think it is only for iPod, so I haven't use it and try to understand it. However, after I downloaded it, I found it is so interesting, there are so many function in it and it is so informative.

Ha... sometimes I feel that I am not a person living in the contemporary "technological" society. So many new things I don't really know and understand. But it is always good to stay with the latest news and technology. Here, I am not talking about iTunes as I totally understand it is not a new innovation. Besides new inventions, so many exciting things happen around our world everyday. It would be so great if I can have more and more time to try them, then I can broaden my mind and my knowledge.

Sometimes I imagine what would I do if I got more than 24 hours a day, for example 36 hours. I think I would definitely sleep more as I just love and enjoy sleeping. Then for the rest of the time, just spend it with friends, family, learn new stuff and know more about the world. It would be perfect!!!

How about you? If you have 36 hours a day, what will you do?

Being Lazy

Recently, I always have the feelings of being lazy. I don't want to do anything, in-class, after-class, before-class. In conclusion, that is, I just don't want to do anything anytime. I don't want to think and just want my brain free 24hours a day. The feelings is so strange as well as familiar, because, indeed, I have the same feelings in the end of every semester end. Maybe, I am just tired about the assignments and all the workload.

Those assignments: Aborigines, Semiotic, Shot list, Presentations.... never end. They really make me crazy!!

I know I need to go on and face all the work. I always give myself many many excuses that first give myself a little break or rest today and I will work hard on the next day or next time when I have chance since I will have more energy.

I think I need some motivation, but where can I find it? Hopefully my energy and motivation will come back soon. I need you!!