Graphic Designer - Shigeo Fukuda

"In terms of my graphic design, I feel visual communication is the most important element."

by Shigeo Fukuda



http://www.icm.gov.mo/exhibition/fukuda/philoE.asp

Recommend readings

So I've borrowed these two books from the library.

• Digital Multimedia by Nigel Chapman & Jenny Chapman
• Managing Multimedia by Elaine England & Andy Finney

I started on the first one and have only read the first chapter, but having read the introduction I now understand what multimedia really means.

19/01 Context 1 Seminar - Research

We talked about "Research" in this week's seminar. It's interesting that some people thought Research is everywhere happening all the time, but I'm more agree on "you're not researching when you aren't specifically looking for something, it's only taking in information". We also have to think about the Starting points and the way of our research.

And this week our task is about creativity.
I think my creativity in the past few years have been mainly school works. Although it's school work and we have topics that we have to follow in school art work, I enjoy it. And I think those had been Descriptive and Exploratory Researches as we have to research for the topic given and generate something new based on the given topic. I really want to develop my creativity in these 2 years in uni. I think I need to do more art work outside school in order to widen my art work's range.

I should be getting more, and different inspiration by researching, as i think inspiration is essential for creativity. It is also important to explore different views and ideas from various artists. And by broadening my knowledge in multimedia by researching, hopefully I will be more creative.

I think the starting point that I'm most drawn to is In Front of because it would help me to understand what other people think and theresfore could improve from there. I'm a bit wary of the Behind bit as although I do agree that it's important to know about the economic, polictical, social cultural context of the work, it gets complicated. I don't think any of them are irralavent as the other two would also allow me to understand more of the topic.

Astro Boy The movie

So this is the movie that I thought we were going to watching on Tuesday's lecture.
It is a Japanese CGI movie called "The Astro Boy", which he is an iron man too
and I just found out that it will be on cinema next week in the UK!
(it was already on cinema last year in HK but it's a shame I didn't go to see it)

http://www.astroboy-themovie.com/

The website is very cool. There are games that you can play too!

And I just found out that the production company IMAGI STUDIOS is a company that produce CG-animated films with operations in HK and the US! wow

http://www.imagi.com.hk/web/eng/

and I LOVE this website! if you click on "behind the scenes", they explain how their films were made and they have videos and photos showing what they look like during the production, which I found really interesting and fun!

3ds Max

oh This is fun!
although I still have a lot to learn about 3dx max

Music Video - Mola by Tomohisa Yamashita

This is a music video called Mola from the Japanese singer Tomohisa Yamashita.
I think the special effects of CG is very cool.

12/01 Context 1 Seminar - Active Learning

Active Learning is, when students are given the opportunity to take a more interactive relationship with the subject matter of the course, encouraging them to generate rather than simply to receive knowledge.

The aim this term is to decide which pathway to choose to study for the next two years. I haven't really decided which one to choose yet. But I don't think I would choose moving images as I didn't enjoy the shooting part last term, although I love watching dramas and TV programs.

And this week our task is to write about our practitioner development activity. So basically the independent study activity we do outside uni/school. So my brain was blank when I heard this, but then when Jools said reading, watching, talking, listening and making all fits as practitioner development, I realised I do lots of things which does help me as a practitioner

• I love to watch TV programs and dramas especially Japanese ones. I discuss with my friends and other people on forums about the story, structure, scripts, characters, editing, background music etc. after watching them.
• I also help in forums making banners, icons, wallpapers, GIF pictures (i just realised it's pixilation) using PS and I really enjoy this job.
  
• I listen to a lot of different types of music. I have collected some original sound music from movies and dramas and I started to keep the instrumental version of Japanese songs from last term as those Japanese CD usually include an instrumental version of the plugged song. And which these songs are useful for our multimedia course
  

As I said in the last post, I really need to widen my knowledge in the multimedia/film industry. I need to read more books and keep up with the news on this side. I think it would be helpful for me to write about the dramas I'm on-going watching, and keep looking at interesting websites and videos.

2010 Term 2 - 12/01 Context 1 Lecture

We had to discuss and argue with other people (Theater Design and Design for Film and TV people) the Key to the development of discipline (multimedia) using -

• Technologies,
  
• Individuals,
  
• Movements,
  
• Techniques

We had a lot of opinions -

• 3D
• Sound
• Internet
• Lighting
  
• Color TV
• Class of Stages
• Method acting
• Shakespeare
• David Bowie
• Andy Warhol
• Peter Jackson
  
• Kate Bush
• Lindsay Kemp

So basically what I've learn from this lecture is,
That it's interesting that the thoughts and opinions from different courses are quite different but yet we are all linked- same technology using in different ways by different courses (e.g- Lighting is more needed in film industry than theater)
We had a quite long discussion on Shakespeare, Why is he so successful and how some people think that he's just a copier, and first time to know that we had to study Shakespeare because it's the English law.
And most importantly, I've heard a lot of names that I didn't know before. I realised I really have very limited knowledge about the multimedia/film industry. I need to read more books and look out for news about multimedia to widen my knowledge.