Week 9: Trashtag Challenge

Aloha! It is finally the 9th week. This week, my partner and I have been working on the Trashtag Challenge campaign video. We have been editing and recording the narration part using the Powtoon and video editor and finally, our video is done!🙌

Before I post the video, I would to share the experience while making it. There were few mistakes were made like, we were supposed to record our narration before making the video but we ended up making the video first. Fortunately it was not hard on editing both the video and the script so they were synchronized with each other. The another problem that happened was that I was having a sore throat which affect my voice for the narration but thanks to Madam Azida who taught us on how to edit the audio, I managed to fix my voice during the editing part. So in the end, all is well.

So as I promised last week, this is my video on the Trashtag Challenge:

Till next time,

Alyaa.

Week 8: Awareness Video

Assalamualaikum! It is a new week and our class was given a new assignment. This time, we have to do an awareness explainer video.

Before we started on the video, as usual, Madam Azida had first brief us on how the video would supposed to be. We were shown the example of videos like the video of cancer awareness and saving the Blue Whale campaign video. 

The theme that was given to us was a campaign video. As this was again a pair work, my partner and I had discussed on the topic that we would like to work on. A few ideas were given and we decided to work on the Trashtag Challenge campaign where people can find a place that needed some cleaning. Then, they can post the picture of before and after the cleaning, and post it on the social media. This can be an encouragement for other people to do the same thing.

We sketched our storyline and content for the video and proceeded on making the script. 

Now, we have already our full storyline and script and we will proceed on the video making and narration recording. I will show you the video next week by posting it here. 

Stay tuned,

Alyaa.

Week 7: My Life Goals?

Annyeonghaseyo! As I promised, here I am with the video that I made from the Powtoon. The theme that was given to us was 'My Life Goals'. It is simple but here I present to you my life goals (kinda).

That's it,
Alyaa.

Week 6: Powtoon

Konnichiwa! This week, we were introduced on a software called Powtoon. With Powtoon, we can make our video and presentation more interesting and it is free to use. 

For the class, we were taught on how to use and where to find the background, music and how to edit our timing and transitions of the animation. 

Stay tuned for the video I will make next week😁.

To be continued,

Alyaa.

Week 5: Audio Recording and Editing

Ciao! I'm back again for the week 5's post. So, last week I made a review on a podcast and for this week I will be starting on a new assignment where my partner and I have to make our own podcast.

Before jumping into the making of the podcast, our Madam Azida introduced to us on the recording and editing tools that we can use to make our podcast. She gave some briefing and showed a few tools like Audacity, Bandlab, and Auphonic that we can use to record and edit our podcast.

We 'played' with the tools and explore more on reducing the noises, increasing the volume and adding the music. We used the snippet of our recording to work on how to get the best quality of podcast.

So, this our finalized podcast which we had uploaded in on the Soundcloud where people can listen to it for free.

Till next week,

Alyaa.

Week 4: Podcast Review

S̄wạs̄dī khaa! For this week post, I will be doing a Podcast review!🙌 I decided to choose a podcast on Nandini's Thought, Episode 17 - Malaysian Timing. Malaysians are famous for not being on time whether it is a formal or informal occasion. They just being lax on time and ended up being late on a lot of occasions.

The reason that I chose this podcast was because I can really relate on her thoughts and complaints about how Malaysians being loose on time. I cannot be more agree on her points. I am a punctual person. I hate to be late on appointments so it is frustrating when someone who appointed the meeting time is the person who being late on turning up. As Nandini said, it can be funny when people make a meme and jokes out of it but it will be super irritating to wait and it is also disrespectful for making people to wait for you. It is also frustrating as being late has become a part of Malaysians' culture and people make of being late and giving excuses as a normal thing to do. 

For the overall review on this podcast, I would say it was a good podcast. The contents were clear and relatable as most of Malaysians had the experience of Malaysian timing. I like the way of Nandini delivered the contents in relaxed but still serious at some points when touching on this issue. All in all, it was a great podcast and I would love to hear more of her podcast in the future. 

Click on the link below to listen to more of Nandini's Thoughts:

Nandini's Thoughts

I'm out,

Alyaa.

Week 3: Search Engine and Online Database + CMC

Nǐ hǎo! I am back again. This week I will be reviewing about the lesson on search engine and online database. First thing first, search engine is a web tool that allow users to enter keywords and find information on websites contained in its databases and every search engine has it own database. It took me a few seconds to get this sentences but as soon as I saw Google as the example, all the dark clouds just went away 🙆. I realized that I know all of these things and I use it every single day but I didn't know what it was called as. Now, I know that those are the ISP. I also learnt that everything that I used on daily basis is only the Surface Web whereas there are Deep Web and Dark Web that are dangerous for an innocent girl (😬👀) to explore on. 

On the second class, we did CMC which is computer mediated communication. It is the form of communication which everyone familiar of like the emails and forums. There were two types of CMC; asynchronous which is the delayed communication that the messages cannot be exchanged immediately like emails and comments and synchronous which is real time communication that can be exchanged immediately like the chat and video conference. On this class, we were focused on the collaborative learning that can be used by a group of people by just using the internet to connect and work together. It was a great lesson as well.

Done with this week post! 

Later,

Alyaa.