WEEK 9 Reflection

Hello and Good day. Today's class will be conducted by Dr Fariza and the main topic will be about Photography which was exciting and interesting. Dr Fariza explained on aperture, light exposure and depth of field.

Aperture:

Simply put, aperture is a hole within a lens, through which light travels into the camera body. It is easier to understand the concept if you just think about our eyes. Every camera that we know of today is designed like human eyes. The cornea in our eyes is like the front element of a lens – it gathers all external light, then bends it and passes it to the iris. Depending on the amount of light, the iris can either expand or shrink, controlling the size of the pupil, which is a hole that lets the light pass further into the eye. The pupil is essentially what we refer to as Aperture in photography. The amount of light that enters the retina (which works just like the camera sensor), is limited to the size of the pupil. The larger the pupil, the more light enters the retina.

Light Exposure:

Exposure is the amount of light per unit area (the image plane luminescence times the exposure time) reaching a photographic film or electronic image sensor, as determined by shutter speed, lens aperture and scene luminescence.

Depth of Field

A basic definition of depth of field is: the zone of acceptable sharpness within a photo that will appear in focus. In every picture there is a certain area of your image in front of, and behind the subject that will appear in focus.

These components are important in the photography industry in order to produce the best masterpiece. 

WEEK 8 Reflection

Hello and good day. This is the week after our mid semester break and this class was conducted by Dr Khalid and the topic of this day is interesting. The topic will be on the Windows movie maker and Dr Khalid will teach us on how to use it, explore and guide on helping us editing a video for today's activity. I was excited to learn this and acquire the skills needed because it will be interesting to see the outcome.

After learning about the movie maker, Dr Khalid told us to edit a video of our own and compile it to show to the class. I did mine on The Deception Entertainment which I did post it on MOOC under this course. Dr Khalid told us to state the purpose and the target audience for the video. This activity was interesting and very enjoyable to do. Thanks to Dr Khalid.

Week 6 Reflection

Hello and good day. This is week 6 and the class was conducted by Dr Khalid which will be about the principles of media. Dr Khalid asked us about our opinion and knowledge on this topic which has a lot of feedback from us then he showed us 2 videos that during the class.

The first video was about travel vlog using action camera which involve a lot of movement for that video. The main purpose of this is because he wanted to show us how to insert the suitable song for the video which was exciting to see.

This is the link of the 1st video that he showed us

The second video that was made by Dr Khalid himself and it was his holiday with his family in Death Valley, USA which was beautiful and lovely to see

After watching the video, Dr Khalid ask our opinion on the video and share our opinion in front of the class. The next activity was interesting which involves us editing some video with the guide of Dr. Khalid to compile in some songs in the video that we choose to edit. Dr Khalid share his knowledge on where to get mp3 format which is Listen to Youtube that directly convert song video to mp3 format and download it which I was surprise and still use till this day. I thank Dr Khalid for this amazing guide. The second application that Dr Khalid told is Audacity and it is free to download and use which is helpful in this activity. This was an amazing and interesting activity by Dr Khalid.

WEEK 5 Reflection Edu Tech

This class was conducted by Dr Fariza and it is unfortunate that I was unable to attend it because I had to go back to my home town which is Sarawak because there was one of family member's wedding so my flight was on this day but I obtain the information needed that was conducted for the class from my friends and was very helpful and delighted to help me out. 

I learned that the topic on this day was about traditional media which was the old school way of obtaining knowledge that consist of the radio, television or even newspaper. The traditional way can be more reliable because nowadays there are lots of media we can use but few gives the right message or the correct one to the audience. I had some experience with these and most of my teachers back then didn't use different type of media. But most generation nowadays may find it boring because they will be more attracted to the new media and will be able to deliver the message more effectively such as using video, sounds, slide show and more type of media. I also heard that there was a presentation for each group on this topic and it was unfortunate that I had missed it.