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Video Art Now let us start things off by learning the definition of video art. Video art is an art form which relies on moving pictures in a visual and audio medium. It has been existed since the late 1960s  and early 1970s  as new consumer video technology became widely available and not limited to corporate broadcasting. Named after the original analogue which was commonly used to record in the early years. They started exploring more as the digital recording equipment became more advanced , they are able to find a new way of expression. Initiated by such experimental artists as Andy Warhol, Wolf Vostell, and Nam June Paik. Later , it was known that a lot of other artists experimented on video arts too. Commercial While a commercial purposes is to attract consumers/sending informations for their consumers. It's a lot different from video art. Commercials are usually straightforward with their intention and basically anyone can tell that they're trying to pr...

Ok , so first of all i don't usually watch documentary films but i do however watch the short documentaries like for example in National Geographic. A documentary is a television or radio programme, or a film, which shows real events or provides information about a particular subject based on facts. An example of a documentary A documentary was intended to document some aspect of reality for the purposes of instruction, education, or treasuring historical record meaning they are to play an actual situation of something that happened either right in the spot or duplicating an actual incident that happened before. Documentaries usually shows a re-enactment of an incident but they don't stray too far off  from the true story. Since producing a documentary isn't limited to any boundaries they can be described as a cinematic tradition as long as they stay on subject at hand. Documentaries have genre just like films, although a documentary genres aren't as much as films b...

I gotta say Youtube is definitely one of my most used platform on the internet. Literally every single day i would surf into Youtube and watch whatever the content that i feel like it. I've been told to predict the future of my most used platform which in my case Youtube of course! As succesful Youtube already is , I'm sure with how our world and the technologies in it they're just going to be even better. Youtube was created in 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. Youtube is a platform where you can literally share anything to the world. It's as easy as pronouncing e-a-s-y! Youtube is mostly based on the society since the content in it are all from the society anyway. Youtube can be a platform for us to start being famous or known by the world by simply recording the content you have and upload it online. One of the example is PewDiePie , he's currently the number 1 Youtuber in the world! The content that he shares are mostly containing video gam...

The Reformation also known as Protestant Reformation was the 16th-century schism from the Roman Catholic Church established by reformers like Martin Luther, John Calvin and Henry VIII this was beacuse of corruption in the Catholic Church and criticism by the people thus ,  some people saw a need to change the way it worked. Hence , the importance of Johann Gutenberg's movable type printing technology for the Protestant Reformation and how the new technology was employed effectively by Martin Luther in Germany. Because of this Luther with the other reformers became the first to skillfully use the power of printing press to spread their new ideology, thought and doctrine to a more wider audience. The printing centers were available in around 200 of the major European cities, these centers became the main producers of Reformation works by the Protestants. The printing machine  An important result of the movable type printing process is the speed at which...

First thing first , Media is defined as one of the means or channels of general communication in society, as newspapers, radio, television etc.  In simpler words , media is where you would use to communicate with people. How about society then ? Sociey is defined as the aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community. So , we the people are the society and the media is what I'm using to communicate and share the information that i have with the world using this blog. So, how does media and society works together ? Let's face the facts that we're living in 2017 where almost everything in our daily lives is associated to media in any form. Most notably is the internet , the internet is one of the most essential tool nowadays for the society to share and communicate with each other. Media and society is like a bond that can't be seperated. Media is used by the most influential people to spread the news towards the society that we're in....

We were assigned to do our own fictional character , their traits and how would the internet affects them. Thus,  Syamar was born! First of all , Syamar is a 19 year old girl that loves to read fiction and non fiction books , enjoys watching korean dramas and into boybands. Syamar has a high interest in politics , youth , economy , social development basically she's interested about the currently evolving world. The internet would greatly help her in learning the knowledge she needs because she can easily look up for articles and the news with only a few clicks away.  The internet can provide her the skills she needs to improve herself. She's the youngest family member and also holds the responsibility of a student in MMU Cyberjaya. There are plenty of ways how the internet can affect her daily life. First of all , a person like her that loves to read can easily look up the facts needed online through the internet. As a fan of korean drama and boybands time management betwe...

Life is Beautiful (1997 ) is an Italian comedy-drama film directed by and starring Roberto Benigni, who co-wrote the film with Vincenzo Cerami. Benigni starred as Guido Orefice an Italian Jewish and a book shop owner , he plays with imagination to keep his son protected from the horrors of internment in a Nazi concentration camp. This movie got an inspiration by the book In the End, I Beat Hitler by Rubino Romeo Salmonì and by Benigni's father, who spent two years in a German labour camp during World War II. This movie earned some rewards although using comedy in this subject matters which is considered sensitive to some people. where there sparks begin  The movie starts with Guido arriving at the city to work for his uncle. Miracalously he bumped into Dora a  local woman in the city and they share some jokes with each other before eventually ending up as a couple and had a son name Giosue  Guido , Dora and their son Giosue They had pratically a perfect family wi...

Johannes Gutenberg  Now lets get to the main reason why he's so famous , Guttenberg was the one the first developed a method of movable type printing and used it to create one of the Western world's first major printed books, the “Forty-Two-Line” Bible. His invention that introduced the mechanical movable type printing to Europe started the Printing Revolution and is widely regarded as the most important invention in the modern period of human history. Johann Gutenberg was born Johann Gensfleisch zur Laden, in Mainz. He was the third child of Freile zum Gensfleisch and his second wife, Else Wirick zum Gutenberg, whose name Johann adopted. Nothing is known of Gutenberg's studies or apprenticeship except that he learned the trade of a goldsmith while living in Mainz. About 1428 his family was exiled as a result of a revolt of the craftsmen against the noble class ruling the town, and in 1430 Gutenberg established himself in Strassburg, where he remained until 1444. Gu...

Signs and symbols are literally everywhere around us , most notably in our everyday gadget which is our phone. Turn on your smartphone and you can see all different sorts of symbols for you personal apps and little did you know these are called semiotics , amazing right ? Another clear example is when you're taking a shower and your water heater have these hot and cold water indicator using red and blue stripes respectively. The question here is have any of you wonder how did it all began and why is it so important for the humankind ? Well , hop on aboard on this not-so-long journey to the beautiful wonders of Semiotics! Semiotics (also called semiotic studies) is the study of meaning-making, the study of sign process (semiosis) and meaningful communication but not to be confused with the Saussurean tradition called semiology which is a subset of semiotic and that is another story. The semiotic tradition usually explores the study of signs and symbols as a significant part of ...

Postmodernism , ever heard of this ? well certainly not me. At least now we have but what is it exactly ? Postmodernism is a broad movement that was developed in the mid to late 20th century across multiple different platforms that were also marked as the departure from the modernism. Those platforms are Western philosophy, arts, architecture and criticism. Postmodernism can also be described as the straightforward denial of general philosophical perspective that was widely disregard during the 18th or the 19 centuries. Postmodernism has and still is typically defined by an attitude of skepticism, irony or rejection toward grand narratives, ideologies and various tenets of universalism, including objective notions of reason, human nature, social progress, moral universalism, absolute truth, and objective reality. Instead, it asserts to varying degrees that claims to knowledge and truth are products of social, historical or political discourses or interpretations, and ar...

" Not One Less " A movie directed by Zhang Yimou , released in 18th of February 2000 and received a lot of  positive feedbacks from the viewers. The movie started off with a 13 year old girl name Mei Minzhi having to substitute a kindergarten teacher known as Teacher Gao. She had to be a substitute for a month since he'll be going away and Teacher Gao had instructed her to not lose any students since he had already lost a few students before and he can't afford to lose more.Thus , not one less. The story continues when this one particular boy in her class ran away to the city to find jobs that can sustain his mother's. Mei determined to get him back to school thus the adventure of her began when she gathered her remaining students to work at a factory to gain some money so she could afford the bus ticket to the city. All this with one main goal , to fetch her student that ran away. She had some up and downs while searching for her student but she foun...

Zhang Yimou , born on the 2nd April 1950 who is a Chinese film director, producer, writer and actor, and former cinematographer.He is counted amongst the Fifth Generation of Chinese filmmakers.  He was born in Xi'an, the capital of Shaanxi province. During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, Zhang left his school studies and went to work, first as a farm labourer for 3 years, and later at a cotton textile mill for 7 years in the city of Xianyang. During his working days he took up painting and amateur still photography also selling his own blood to buy his first camera. In 1978, he went to Beijing Film Academy and majored in photography. Zhang and his co-graduates were assigned to small regional studios, and Zhang was sent to work for the Guangxi Film Studio as a cinematographer. He worked as director of photography, and Chen Kaige's Yellow Earth, in 1984. These two films were successes at the Hong Kong Film Festival and helped to bring the new Chines...