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Dude and dudenis of secretlab went to Siggraph Singapore, for a rejuvenate session aka company trip.

Date : 11-13 Dec 2008
Location : Singapore

Apabila Apple meng-upgrade Mac OS Tiger kepada Mac OS Leopard, features terbaru yang merasuk kami adalah iChat (1)  yang lebih mengujakan. Lantas baru – baru ini sempena dengan pra  annual meeting secretlab, (yang telah dibrandingkan dengan nama “Pre-Rejuvenate 2009″), kami telah menggunakan medium iChat untuk membuat simulasi perbincangan online  atau Online Meeting Simulation. Konsepnya adalah, berkomunikasi secara online (2) sambil membincangkan satu topik lantas membuat satu presentasi.

Sebelum anda dinikmatkan dengan kemudahan video chat terbaru ini, harus difahamkan dahulu :

a. Meeting online adalah meeting diantara 2 pihak yang berjalan di 2 lokasi yang berbeza
b. secara online
c. boleh kongsi file presentation seperti keynote / pdf / jpeg / video

Namun untuk simulasi ini, kami duduk bertentang mata. Berikut adalah contoh snapshot visual iChat diantara kami.

Ini pula snapshot semasa Azrai membuat presentasi menggunakan keynote. ( ala2 powerpoint )

Berikut adalah keadaan sebenar yang berlaku ketika presentasi. Sepatutnya secara simulasi ideal, kami harus berada di lokasi yang berbeza. Namun kesukaran untuk mencari kawasan WIFI menyebabkan kami berimaginasi yang kami berada diruang yang berbeza.

Hasil Eksperimen

Hasil dari perlakuan simulasi ini didapati bahawa iChat sangat efektif dalam melaksanakan Online Meeting. Namun beberapa hal harus diambil kira:

a. Paling mudah antara Mac user sahaja, kecuali anda install iChat dalam window. Bolehkah kita install iChat dalam windows?

http://forums.pcworld.co.nz/showthread.php?t=86311

Namun cara yang lebih mudah adalah mac user menggunakan iChat manakala windows user menggunakan AIM.

b. Boleh rekod perbincangan namun secara misteri, file yang telah direkod tidak dijumpai.

c. Perbincangan 2 hala sahaja ( Khairulazizi + Azrai ). Perbincangan 3 hala ( khairulazizi + Azrai + secretlab ) kami belum cuba sebab ketika ini tiada seorang staff secretlab pun di ofis.

d. Kadangkala connection failure akibat dari kerendahan bandwith provider di lokasi.

Bacaan Lanjut:
(1) http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ichat.html

(2) http://www.mvldesign.com/video_conference_tutorial.html

Finally they arrived, check out at the local store machine.

Balai Seni Lukis Negara dengan segala hormatnya mempersilakan Tuan/Puan  ke

Program Bicara Seni
UNDER DECONSTRUCTION- MAPPING CONTEMPORARY ART IN MALAYSIA POST 1990s

Oleh:

Encik Hasnul Jamal Saidon

Pada Hari Sabtu
Tarikh : 15 Mac 2008
Masa  : 10.00 pagi – 12.00 t/hari
Tempat: Auditorium

Balai Seni Lukis Negara
No 2, Jalan Temerloh
Off Jalan Tun Razak
53200Kuala Lumpur.

Untuk keterangan lanjut sila hubungi:
En Shamsul Bahari : 017-9808703

TAKSU
invites you & friends
to a group art exhibition
entitled

LOCALS ONLY!

OPENING PARTY
Thursday 13 March 2008
7.30pm

TAKSU KUALA LUMPUR
17 Jalan Pawang
54000 Kuala Lumpur
T +603 4251 4396
F +603 4251 4331
E rini@taksu.com

Exhibition will be on display till April 2008.
Closed on Public Holidays and Sunday

GALERI PETRONAS

is pleased to invite you to the official launch of

MATAHATI
FOR YOUR PLEASURE

by Guest of Honour, Abdul Latiff Mohidin, prominent Malaysian
and South east Asian artist

on TUESDAY, 11 MARCH 2008, 5.00 PM
at GALERI PETRONAS
Level 3, Suria KLCC, Kuala Lumpur

Tel: +603 2051 7770
Attire: Smart Casual
Exhibition Will continue until Sunday, 13 April 2008

Pameran Terbuka merupakan aktiviti tahunan
Galeri Shah Alam sebagai tanda sokongan
dalam perkembangan seni visual tanahair

TEMA
Tema karya adalah BEBAS dan tidak menyentuh
isu-isu agama, kaum dan bangsa.

TARIKH TUTUP PENYERTAAN
24 APRIL 2008

ANUGERAH INTENSIF
RM 1,000.00 X 5 Pemenang

Keterangan Lanjut Hubungi:

GALERI SHAH ALAM
Persiaran Tasik,
40000 Shah Alam,
Selangor
Tel: 03-55105344/ 55106045
Fax: 03-55102081
e-mail: galerisa@streamyx.com
http://www.galerishahalam.org.my

Please be informed that below is the schedule for the class :

Interactive Design 3 – Every Monday 14:00 – 17:00
Interactive Design 2 – Every Tuesday 10:00 – 13:00
Printing Technology – Every Tuesday 20:00 – 22:00

See u !

1. Storyboard

Storyboard is the most important things you should consider and finalize before starting any montage project. It’s act as a master guide and a reference for the story and scene flow. You can alter your storyboard depends on your needs but the basic element of storyboard are time, frame, music/effect and descriptions.

2. Timeline

If you are working in a big scale of team, make sure you have the master timeline for all member to refer. The date line for gather the multimedia elements/ contents is the most important things. Without content, the editor cannot start the editing part and this will lead you to a late production.

3. Target Audience

Who is your target audience? You need to know your audience background. Delivering message to the wrong audience will be the disaster for the montage.

4. Time

You need to determine the length of the montage. 10 minutes? 50 second? The shorter is sometimes better. The longer will drag audience to boring mood. Time is always related to the content. The more content you have, the more time you need. Use storyboard as a guide. Remember… you are not doing corporate video but you are doing MONTAGE.

5. Quality Elements of Multimedia

You should understand that Flash is only the mixing tools. You have to ensure the images, sound and animations you use is always in high quality. A bad ingredient will always lead to a bad taste of the food. For instance, a blur image or photograph will turn your montage to a low quality of visual experience.

6. Music

Music is one of the most important things in Montage. Do not use wrong music theme for example, using love music for a futuristic montage. Choose music wisely. When it comes to corporate launching make sure you have permission on the music you use or else you need to find a music composer.

7. Transition

Be-careful with the transition of the montage to ensure the continuity of the scene. Continuity is important to keep the level of audience understanding and mood in a sequence projected graph.

8. Effects

Do not mix all the effects of the world in your short clip montage. Try to think that montage is not about the more the merrier. Effects should be always fluent with the concept.

9. Size

Depends on the medium of the launching, you should know the size of the montage or the size of the Flash stage. If your montage is going to be in the TV, then better not doing montage for projector size launching. Some part of the montage will be crop. Always know the safe area or can I say the margin?

10. Test

For the launching event, you need to test your montage at the stage at least 3 – 5 times before the launching day. You need to make sure the sounds is good. The timing of the montage with the event que, and most important things is the exact time to launch the montage. Avoid mechanical launching because we will never knew what will happen on the actual days.

11. Recce place

You should recce the launching place before the launching day. Where is the P.A system located, where is the stage, the speaker and etc. You need to know the logistic event.

12. Format

You should determine the format of the montage for the launching days. If you are using swf / exe as the format then you’ll in a big risk. Remember that the waiting time before launch will always make the notebook hang or out of battery. The best solution is to convert your montage as a VCD or DVD format so that you can control you launching by pressing play / pause.

13. Backup

Always have a few VCD or DVD as a backup on the launching day in case of CD scratch of misplace.

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Class organized by Training.Org.My

Venue : Residence Hotel, UNITEN
Date : 11 – 15 December 2006
Level: Certificate