Up up and away

We are now in the age of possibilities that we had yesterday. When ideas become real. Age of generation X, we’re technology occupies larger part in almost kind of machine were manipulating regularly. Today even small children know how to use a cell phone and computer before going to school and learned. Almost everything now has instruction on how to prepare, create and produce by the assistance of countless applications.

Development begins rapidly like a running water in the falls we never know when will ends. An instinct that we cannot prevent from happening. The passion of doing things you desire and believe. This is a real understanding of how technology can control people that can give them an extraordinary vision of what available potential is waiting.

We cannot control changes but we can control things before unexpected can happens.  We should remember that humans are the ones who created technology, so don’t let technology destroy humanity.

One Semester Down The AB MMA

I realized that there is that kind of expectation attached to what course you are taking. As an AB Multimedia Arts student, I realized that people tend to expect that you are good in arts and you already know a lot about multimedia programs and software and so on. When you are in your junior or senior year, I guess that would be fine, as you should have already been taught a lot and learned a lot about your degree by then.

In my case, I am only almost one semester down the AB MMA course. I took this course, honestly, to learn this field, only having a little knowledge about it. One semester and I don’t think I already meet the usual expectations people have on me as an MMA major. But that’s fine, I am taking it up as a challenge and I hope to be able to really be proud that I am an AB MMA student and confident enough with the kind of skills I should have.

As I adjust to that, I also hope that teachers will not fall short of teaching us the skills that we need just because they assume that we already have or we should have them in the first place. School, after all, is where we are educated and where we seek learning. I still have about three years to the end of the course, so I am looking forward to a lot of that learning

Happy Feet

Many people love to travel now and technology helps us to make it easy. If you’re looking to a place you want to book all you need to do is use the internet, browse their website check the facility and everything you need to inquire is already included and if you’re lucky different promos are waiting for you. Reservation is not difficult through technology that making it reaching hand. Using cell phones, laptop and computer assist us in the easiest way to find any places we want to go.

All travelers who are a first time in the place experienced to get lost but now we don’t need to worry because of many different applications now that can help us to find the location through the use of the internet or without. We can check the status of the weather or I can say information is fast and efficient today because of the technology.

If you are a selfie lover you don’t need to have a DSLR camera to have a good quality image. Cell phones now have the high-tech quality resolution that can produce an image like it came from a professional photographer.

Shot the fact

I would like to share this photo which I captured last summer with my office mates. When I choose my 2nd course Multimedia Arts I considered what I really want that will make me fulfill who I really want to be. Doing things you don’t like is like wasting time, you will never grow and happy if you continue those things you never wanted. I found myself having an interest in simple editing and photography that’s why I enrolled in a university to learn more skills, techniques and be professional on it.

Taking photos which I refer to called capturing moments. The picture is a good souvenir, when you are looking in a photo it brings you the memory of that images and making alive those moments in your mind. A picture serves an inspiration to others, strength to someone and hope.

Now, many applications are available to enhance images to make the color alive and attractive. I love doing things with creativeness, and technology makes almost anything possible today.

Creativity Must Evolve Along With Technology

In one of the weddings I recently attended, the audio-visual presentation was not the typical prenup videos we often see in weddings. This time, they incorporated a story in the video and it looked like an indie film particularly. It’s not that unique in the sense that they are the ones who did it first, but it is not often done on such occasions.

My point in this situation is that it is refreshing to see them put their creativity to the next level. As the technology evolves, we have new media tools that we can use to our advantage and to become more creative with our work. We now have drones, which I see many photographers also use to take aerial shots and video footages that add creativity into their output. Media has also made it possible for the photographers and videographers to make same-day edits to their coverage, which they can present to the guests of the newlyweds during the reception.

I would also like to venture into that kind of work and I hope to learn those skills as I take my MMA course. But I’m still in my first semester so I think that would take time. In any way, there is an opportunity to learn and exercise creativity. Hope we can catch up with how fast media technology changes.

Lights, camera, action

Being a Multimedia Arts student at Lyceum of the Philippines  and one of my major subjects told us we need to make two videos in a different topic for our major exams. Together with my new classmates, we form groupings to make 5 members each. After that, the first topic that was given by our instructor was about old media to new media. Our members took the research and tackle about the script that we are going to make the props and ideal place we need to shoot.

We decided to explain the old media before on how human beings adopted it and how they survived living on it. As we discussed and act what old media we had before it gives us information and vision on how difficult it was to communicate to another person if they lived too far. People tried many things to make their communication become easy and effective. As time goes and new generation arrived man invented many things that improve to make better communication.

We shoot in different places defends on the scene needed. Portray different character and act on it. We shared the skills we have to make our video interesting and artistic. Those are my experience while doing our mini film.

Fastest growing media

While doing our shooting for the two consecutive major exams I learned facts about the old media from  new media. Communication is very important to us. And before people find many ways on how they will communicate to others. Different types on how people learned time by time. They begin to use horns, smoke and flag signals. It is the time that communication is very difficult.

When radio, telephone, and television arrived it give much easier to communicate and gathered information for anyone. The message was clear and easy to understand. New media begins with those three major popular gadgets that're very helpful. In television we can see and hear the information fast unlike before.

The Internet came and also possible ideas begin through the help of evolving technology. Many applications were created and most of them were very helpful. Google, facebook, and youtube were examples of them. Google has its definition in almost everything you search. Facebook helps us to keep our family and friends most likely those are far from us. Youtube is a video streaming provide to preserve any kinds of video.

Work and Technology

How technology  able to change work. people are working now from home because of the internet. It’s not that easy to look for online jobs. Certain skills are needed. Being an MMA student has a potential to have worked at home and I’m looking also to do home based. Video editing and image director are one of those. My personal experience in applying online was difficult and need much time.

To have an online job the basic requirement you must have was stable internet connection and equipment.  For a student like me and having my own family it’s a good opportunity to have a  work from home with the help of technology. I don’t need to go out to have work and the best part of it was I’m with my family at home. Because of that, I was able to help things in the home.

Now I have application for a news coordinator position. The main function is choosing the appropriate image in the story using different image application. Copying the source link and some details. Through internet and technology many things now are possible.

Unstoppable Evolution

My personal experience from old media to new media. Going back when I was in my childhood I used to do some paper works using a typewriter. A manual type of machine for writing. It uses a ribbon that serves ink to produce letters and symbol. It is too heavy to carry I remembered. But what we have now in our generation is a personal computer. A device built not only to produce letters and symbol but to write, communicate, search anything, gather information in many ways, saved important details using its large memory and a version of a portable computer that you can carry anywhere which is called a laptop.

A manual camera to a digital type of camera uses for capturing pictures. But today we have cellphones that can take pictures of the quality of a digital camera. Technology now is leading too fast. Evolves from time to time.

Aside from those gadgets. Cellphone era has been developed rapidly. During when I was a kid the cellular phone I first try to use is the one that has an antenna followed by a Nokia brand 3310. From that time Nokia brand was so famous and yearly they developed a new one. Speaking of the present cell phone now, we use touch screen type of phone that can function unbelievable and amazing.

Information Age

As part of our life, new media evolves. After using an old wired telephone and early computer, today we have cell phones and laptop. A telephone that can communicate anywhere with-in the signal area (cellular phones). Before, cellphones functions were only for text messages, calls, and a simple graphic design game. Today cell phones have many functions like you can send a picture by using MMS, email, take a picture, make a video, play a music and browse anything with the help of internet. A cellular phone that built to multi-task.

After the personal computer, they invented laptop. A portable computer that you can bring in any places and put it on your lap. Same functions like personal computers. The difference are can be in designs, size, memory capacity, browsing speed, updated software and touchscreen capable.

Now, these two modern technologies have already been part of our everyday life. Everyone was using cell phones. Most people used laptop or computers. It helps us to make our job easily. I guess I can say that these gadgets were a very big thing in today’s generation.  

Internet for everyday life

New media is defined as all that is related to the internet and the relationship between technology, images, and sound. But as technology evolves, the definition of new media seems to change fast depending on how people use it. Today it helps us to communicate easily especially to those people who are apart from us. It provides us the fastest way to communicate, unlike before that we have to wait for weeks, even months to hear from our family or friends from afar.

Today’s media also gives us information and feedback in almost everything question we had. For example, when I choose Multimedia Arts course and I want to understand it more, I just browsed the internet and no need to visit any university to inquire what it is all about by using the internet. It allowed me to have more time to do other things. The Internet is one of the best things ever invented.

It is now considered as part of everyone’s life that is used daily in office, school, and other businesses. New media is accessible anytime and anywhere. A new tool for everyone. A big help to the world and mankind.

Why MMA

I already went up on stage and received my college diploma. But here I am taking another course. Not everyone would understand why I decided to go back to school, but I am doing this for myself and my family. After being out there in the real world, being part of the workforce, I realized that there's still much I need to learn. There's still much I want to learn. And that thirst for new knowledge led me to multimedia arts.

I believe I have some talent when it comes to arts. I have design ideas, for example, that I want to transform into something visible and with the aid of technology, I know I can do that. I want to learn more about it through formal education and get a bachelor's degree at the end of it.

In this age of new media where almost everything is going digital, one cannot afford to be left behind. I believe it's never too late for me to start on something new again, so I am pursuing this path where I can put my ideas out there more effectively through the new media and the internet. I also hope that this will lead me to a more fulfilling career wherein I enjoy and love what I am doing.