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I tend to think deeply about the subject matter of work before I dive into it. With the theme of 'transformation', I think I tried to consider too hard about what conceptual story I wanted to tell, and it didn't translate well visually. Also, it's always difficult to get multiple people's opinions together. However, through this workshop, I was able to see other collegues' work and experience the senses and effects that 2D animation can create. The advantage of 2D stop-motion using collage is that it conveys the vibrancy of each scene without trying to be as natural as real footage.I will try to think about the theme or story as I develop it visually at the same time.

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we've created a short animation abt three of us as international students.

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Anna Masic walked to the room with her special item : a playful red adidas cross bag!

This adidas bag is old and worn, but it contains more stories than it looks.

Here, Anna started to talk about her life journey with this special bag.

Q: What is your item?

A: It is a red adidas bag

Q: Where and where did you get it?

A: I got this when I was around 12 from France

Q: Who got it for you?

A: Probably my mom or dad because that time, I was just a young kid.

Q: What made you carry the bag for such a long time?

A: Even though I got it when I was little, I could not throw it away. When I first decided to wear this bag, as a kid, I was a real tomboy. However, I gradually lost my interest (in this bag) as I grew up; following social expectations to become more “girly” and “feminine”.

This bag sat in the closet as my style changed throughout my teenage years, but recently started wearing it again. I have more confidence to explore both styles (tomboy and feminine).

Q: When do you usually bring this bag?

A: It goes everywhere

Q: What goes in that bag?

A: I sometimes carry dark chocolate, cucumber, laptop, passport, keys, wallet, etc.

Q: How would you feel if we say you lost this bag?

A: Well, I will not cry away if I lose it but of course I will feel nostalgic.

Q: In which outfit would you match this bag with?

A: Maybe street wear, but I’m not scared to wear it with any kind of old suit or jumper.

I can always collaborate with different styles.

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Making a webpage was a big challenge for me. Thankfully, there was a certain pre-existing template, so there weren't lots of things to take care of. However, since this was a thing that I’ve never experienced before, it was quite a complex task. Despite the fact that it was challenging, there was one thing that I’ve learned from this practice module. I used to think there are limited ways to ‘create’: recording, drawing, designing, and writing. But after this module, I learned that coding and web designing also can be a part of the creative process. If I had more time, I would spend more time selecting the font, or photos to be in.

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Maybe, I might regret this moment

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I think I enjoyed this taster the most. I already had an experience from foundation year at Kingston uni, so it made me easier to follow the steps in short hours. I’m used to doing research and finding references for my ideas and developing them for visual outcomes. Difficult part comes when I have to do drawings and use the Adobe program to create my ideas. I’ve learned that illustrating requires thoughtful decisions and caring about the relationship between creator and consumers. I want to learn more about Adobe tools and other art programs to improve the quality of my works.

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I think the beauty of photography is that you can capture the emotions and feelings of a moment in a scene even if you are not the best painter or artist. I've never been formally trained in photography, but I've always enjoyed it, and it's helped me a lot in building my own art works. Through this course, I was surprised to learn there are certain techniques applied to take a nice photo. But I think those techniques are more important when it comes to critique than actual making process. We used our phones to take the photos this time, but it would have been nice to have a professional camera to learn about photography theory.

When I take photos, I tend to shoot landscapes, and I use color correction to capture the emotions I felt when looking at a particular landscape. However, I haven't built a consistent style yet, and I don't think I have the skills to capture subjects that make a strong impression.

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I had worked in broadcasting in high school, so I knew how to operate audio machines, but it was the first time I had ever been in a booth and recorded myself. I was used to writing scripts for radio broadcasts, but conducting interviews on the fly with only a rough outline was a challenge. I realized that if I could record myself in the radio booth and then do post-sync and edit, it would be fine, but it would take a lot of courage to do it live. Also it was interesting how radio can recreate deeper stories and realistic scenes as much as the video.

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I believe that creating a visual storytelling piece like a movie is actually similar to creating a 2d design: both require the same process of choosing a topic to convey through the work, finding references, creating an outline (storyboard), and building up the details. Both are mediums to convey a specific message to the audience, and both have a high degree of expressive freedom. The difference, as I learned from this taster, is that video creation is more about storytelling. While visual effects and editing are important, the most important thing is to think about how to effectively communicate with the audience in a limited amount of time.

It was very difficult for me to do the acting myself, I didn't need lines or great acting skills for this project, but I think I need to be a little more daring to fully bring what I had in mind to the video.

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I was unfamiliar with the concept of media campaigning and social activism. In Korea, people don't protest unless it's a big issue for the whole country. Also, I didn't know that public service announcements that we often see on TV are included in this field. Through this class, I learned that social activism is not about seeking radical change through coercion, but about raising issues and making people aware of the problems. This fact seems to be the core of every communication tactic, not just activism. Analyzing examples of activism gone wrong in class was very helpful in improving my understanding of this field.

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First of all, it seems that the most important thing for creative writing is wit and vocabulary. Out of the nine courses, creative writing was the one I was most interested in, but I found it very difficult to write on the fly and at a fast pace. In creative writing, writers have to make the reader understand the situation they are imagining. Therefore, somtimes it is necessary to use poetic expressions and words to convey the atmosphere instead of just describing it. It's unfortunate that my English is still not perfect, so I couldn't write what I wanted to write perfectly.

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This course taught me how much responsibility journalism requires. Although my project was simply an interview to investigate something mundane, journalism emphasizes objectivity and accuracy, and it takes a lot of effort to convey information without spin. First of all, it was very important to choose the questions to get to the point, and secondly, it was necessary to create descriptions that would be interesting to the reader (without making them up or exaggerating them). If I were to do this project again, I would add more questions about the emotional connection between the interviewee and the object of their attachment.