21 Dec 2006
Venue : class
We went to submit the CD and the tutor seems to be very satisfy with it. Owh, wait a min...its already 11.40am and the class is suppose to be at 11am....where are all the other groups? Unfortunately for some of them or most I can say : They were still rushing their work and some are facing technical problems ;D oh well good for us..we had a great time learning alot of stuffs and doing this project eventhough its very tiring and sometimes troublesome. Thanks for reading our blog~* Bye .v.(^^).v.
Regards :
Ehsan Lankarani
Jaswant Singh
Jerry Lim
A.R.T Squad
(Aiming Real Technology)
Thursday, December 21, 2006
Final Touchup
19 Dec 2006
Venue : Ehsan's house.
Today is D-Day.... we did our final touchup and some "beta testing". As usualy, nothings perfect...we encountered many problems such as mysterious looping and file not found, but luckily we managed to settle all those problems. Ah..... did some printing and create our very own CD cover, all is done and set. ;)
Venue : Ehsan's house.
Today is D-Day.... we did our final touchup and some "beta testing". As usualy, nothings perfect...we encountered many problems such as mysterious looping and file not found, but luckily we managed to settle all those problems. Ah..... did some printing and create our very own CD cover, all is done and set. ;)
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Starting to Create Multimedia CD
Today, Jaswant & Jerry gathered at Ehsan's house to continue creating the multimedia CD. We Covert the photoshop images into director and started to use some scripts on our buttons. Very tiring... ;)
Animation Time..
All of us were very busy with creating an animation individually. The animation is an introduction for the multimedia CD. After we all had done it, we submitted them to our lecturer. Later on, we all had decided to use Ehsan's animation for our introduction as it is very creative and nice.
Sketches of the Graphic User Interface ( G.U.I )
Date : 29 November 2006
Time : 0900
Venue : Class
Today, all of us showed our lecturer the jpeg files of our newly created Graphic User Interface. Below are our creations :
This is our main page
Time : 0900
Venue : Class
Today, all of us showed our lecturer the jpeg files of our newly created Graphic User Interface. Below are our creations :
This is our main page
This is our "history" page
This page we are gonna introduce the types of tea.
So we submitted all this jpeg files to the lecturer.
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
The Birth of Our Flowchart
Date : 28/11/2006
Time : 16.00
Venue : Ehsan's House.
Today, all of us gathered at Ehsan's home to create our flowchart and print our new proposal. We had also discussed and sorted our ideas. We planed our GUI and also get our tea information. We categorize them and decided about the pages in our multimedia cd.
Here is our flowchart :
Friday, November 24, 2006
Renew Web Blog and Proposal
Date: 24/11/2006
Time: 16.00
Venue: Ehsan's Home.
Today, Jaswant and Jerry went to Ehsan's home to prepare our new proposal and also to do some final discussion. We realize that our previous web blog Hubpages.com is not user friendly and occasionally the server traffic is slow. It also doesn’t support the function of adding photos inside the document. Therefore we decided to move over to a new web blog host that is blogspot. We rewrite our blogs and update it to the latest one and here is our proposal:
Title:
A Sip from Heaven
Background:
Tea is a very interesting and unique type of beverage that had existed since the ancient days in China. Many people had been practicing drinking tea as part of their lifestyle and also culture especially in the Chinese, Japanese and Koreans society. In this modern era where technologies are growing rapidly, this culture is only being practiced by the older generation and it's almost forgotten among the younger generation. Nowadays, people are suffering under stress and fatigue resort to the usage of drugs, painkillers, and alcohol which are hazardous to the mind, body and soul. Drinking tea can also be an alternate way to relief one from those symptoms mentioned above. We had chosen this topic because we want to educate and to promote the modern people about the benefits of drinking tea and also preventing this beautiful culture from being lost forever.
Target Audience:
Average 20-50years old and above.
Characteristic:
Have no knowledge about tea, curious about tea, like Chinese culture.
Scope for the content:
i) History
- introduction
- history
- origin
- how it reach Malaysia
- Explain about the relationship between tea and culture and lifestyle in Malaysia
- Where can we get tea, where is it planted?
ii) Benefit for Health
- Types of Tea
i. Red
ii. Black
iii. Yellow
iv. White
v. Green
- Legend, Benefit and Types.
iii) Rules
- Rules of drinking tea
- Procedure to make a tea
- Tea set (Usage, type of tea set.)
iv) Interview
- An interview with a tea master.
v) Interactive Question
- To improve the audience's knowledge about tea.
vi) About us
- Regarding the authors
Objective
- We will create a very interesting and unique introduction for the multimedia CD.
- We want to improve the knowledge of the audience in an interesting way.
- We will include various Chinese painting images that are related to tea.
- We want to make sure that our user audience feels comfortable when exploring the multimedia CD.
Strategy Approach:
- We will have an introduction animation.
- We will create an interactive question for the audience to explore.
- We will do research about the design and symbols that are related to tea so that we can use it as part of the GUI.
- We will create a user friendly graphic user interface (GUI) that is suitable for all ages.
Project Genre/Category:
- Education & Information Multimedia CD.
Budget
Team members’ roles
· Since this work is a group work and we want to produce an excellent product, so we decided to do all the pages together. Each member will be bringing some sketches of each page and then we combined them into one. All of us will also be present at the same time in one place to create the multimedia CD page by page.
· If we were to separate the work individually, some members are able to finish the work on time while maybe the others were not able to do it, therefore it will bring negative effect by slowing down our progress.
· This group work will have some advantages such as:
o Every member will be satisfied with the outcome.
o We can share our experience together
o We can make sure everyone does their part equally
o The project work will be synchronize in terms of the GUI and design
o If there's a mistake, every member will be responsible for that page and not only a particular person.
o In this group work we have 3 minds instead of 1; therefore the product outcome will be better.
o We work as a team at the same time instead of individuality.
o We can prepare ourselves for the future in order to work as a team and believe in a concept "no man is an island"
o It’s a good opportunity to strengthen our bonds in working together in the future.
o We can learn together from our mistakes and improve ourselves together thus balancing the skill level individually.
Gantt chart
Tea Party...
Date: 21/11/2006
Time: 21.00
Venue: Jaswant & Jerry's Home.
Earlier a couple of days ago, Ziv (The guy that gave us the idea) had brought his Chinese tea set and types of tea to demonstrate the process of making the tea and also to explain to us what tea was all about. Earlier in the afternoon, Ehsan had gone to Times Square in Kuala Lumpur to scout around and doing some research about tea. He managed to take some photos and talked with some of the tea shopkeepers.
At night time, Ehsan came to Jaswant and Jerry's house. Together we experience a wonderful educational journey and learned many interesting facts about tea from Ziv. We asked him a lot of questions and finally of course, we get to drink those teas. At first we weren't used to the bitterness of the tea, but slowly, as we drank more and more our tongue had finally managed to taste the sweetness of this wonderful drink.
Later on, we sat down together and discuss about the design of the multimedia CD and did some sketches and the flowchart. It was a wonderful night full of new experiences.
Time: 21.00
Venue: Jaswant & Jerry's Home.
Earlier a couple of days ago, Ziv (The guy that gave us the idea) had brought his Chinese tea set and types of tea to demonstrate the process of making the tea and also to explain to us what tea was all about. Earlier in the afternoon, Ehsan had gone to Times Square in Kuala Lumpur to scout around and doing some research about tea. He managed to take some photos and talked with some of the tea shopkeepers.
At night time, Ehsan came to Jaswant and Jerry's house. Together we experience a wonderful educational journey and learned many interesting facts about tea from Ziv. We asked him a lot of questions and finally of course, we get to drink those teas. At first we weren't used to the bitterness of the tea, but slowly, as we drank more and more our tongue had finally managed to taste the sweetness of this wonderful drink.
Later on, we sat down together and discuss about the design of the multimedia CD and did some sketches and the flowchart. It was a wonderful night full of new experiences.
The Moment of Truth...
Date: 17/11/2006
Time: 12.00
We came up with our latest "Chinese Tea" proposal and went to consult the tutor after our Malaysian Studies class. She read it and fully agreed with it (We hope she wont change her mind again like last time, just joking ;p)
Time: 12.00
We came up with our latest "Chinese Tea" proposal and went to consult the tutor after our Malaysian Studies class. She read it and fully agreed with it (We hope she wont change her mind again like last time, just joking ;p)
An Idea from Heaven....
Date: 16/11/2006
Time: 11.30
It happened on the very same day, it was lunch time and we were very frustrated and confused. Every member was thinking hard and was disappointed because we had to start all over again from 0%.
All of us went to the food court to have our lunch as our stomach was as sad as ourselves. It was very silent on the table and everybody was eating their food quietly. After eating, we sat down and pull ourselves back together and started brainstorming. Various suggestions and ideas came up such as Malaysian Wedding, Wayang Kulit, Malaysian food, Malaysian Villages and etc.
The group members were not agreeing towards on another and signs of conflict started to rise. The reason was most of the topic mentioned above was already done by other group and some were too hard in terms of finding the resources and information.
We try to find a way to maintain the Putrajaya topic and discussed various ways to relate it with Malaysian culture and lifestyle such as signs of Malaysian architecture present around Putrajaya. But it seems very uninteresting and boring because Putrajaya is a government administration city therefore there weren't any interesting cultural architecture besides tall skyscrapers. It seems there was no hope at all, we were all very disappointed and despair.
Suddenly, one of our friends came to our table and gave us a suggestion about doing a Chinese tea topic. It was like a miracle to us as this guy's family background is very traditional and he knows a lot about Chinese cultures and lifestyle. Here we discovered and understand the benefit of a group work. It was like heaven has shown its light upon us. We were very excited and the atmosphere had changed immediately. We quickly discuss about it and planed our next move.
Thank you Ziv Goh. You gave us hope ;)
Time: 11.30
It happened on the very same day, it was lunch time and we were very frustrated and confused. Every member was thinking hard and was disappointed because we had to start all over again from 0%.
All of us went to the food court to have our lunch as our stomach was as sad as ourselves. It was very silent on the table and everybody was eating their food quietly. After eating, we sat down and pull ourselves back together and started brainstorming. Various suggestions and ideas came up such as Malaysian Wedding, Wayang Kulit, Malaysian food, Malaysian Villages and etc.
The group members were not agreeing towards on another and signs of conflict started to rise. The reason was most of the topic mentioned above was already done by other group and some were too hard in terms of finding the resources and information.
We try to find a way to maintain the Putrajaya topic and discussed various ways to relate it with Malaysian culture and lifestyle such as signs of Malaysian architecture present around Putrajaya. But it seems very uninteresting and boring because Putrajaya is a government administration city therefore there weren't any interesting cultural architecture besides tall skyscrapers. It seems there was no hope at all, we were all very disappointed and despair.
Suddenly, one of our friends came to our table and gave us a suggestion about doing a Chinese tea topic. It was like a miracle to us as this guy's family background is very traditional and he knows a lot about Chinese cultures and lifestyle. Here we discovered and understand the benefit of a group work. It was like heaven has shown its light upon us. We were very excited and the atmosphere had changed immediately. We quickly discuss about it and planed our next move.
Thank you Ziv Goh. You gave us hope ;)
The Horror of Rejection!!!!
Date: 16/11/2006
Time: 10.05
Time: 10.05
Venue: Class DR2006 FCM building.
It was beautiful morning; all of us were energetic and happy because we enjoyed having fun in the process of making the multimedia CD. As usual, all of us went to the multimedia authoring tutorial class on this day and learned more about the usage of the software. Suddenly, the tutor came to us and said " I am sorry…. Can you please change your approach towards this topic?"
It was beautiful morning; all of us were energetic and happy because we enjoyed having fun in the process of making the multimedia CD. As usual, all of us went to the multimedia authoring tutorial class on this day and learned more about the usage of the software. Suddenly, the tutor came to us and said " I am sorry…. Can you please change your approach towards this topic?"
She said that the topic "Tourist Attraction in Putrajaya" is not related to the Malaysian culture and lifestyle despite earlier the last two weeks ago she had completely agreed about our chosen topic. All of us were shocked to the spine because we had already started our work like 30% or so and now we have to redo it??!!!
Of course the tutor was very helpful and kind enough to understand our problem, so she advised and gave a few suggestions to approach the topic in a different manner but persevering the concept. Of course this wasn’t a very good idea so we decided to purpose a new topic.
After several meetings and discussion on the very same day, various weird and interesting proposals had been discussed among us, yet it wasn’t really good enough to challenge the other group's topic. It was a very hard and stressful for us during that moment.
After several meetings and discussion on the very same day, various weird and interesting proposals had been discussed among us, yet it wasn’t really good enough to challenge the other group's topic. It was a very hard and stressful for us during that moment.
In conclusion we had all agreed upon abandoning the "Putrajaya Project" for the multimedia authoring project but we had also decided to continue this work as our personal project for the benefit of ourselves and also for those who wish to know more about the beautiful garden city, Putrajaya.
The Journey Has Begun
Date: 15/11/2006
Time: 15.00
Today, we rented a car and begin our project of photo capturing about the tourist attraction places in Putrajaya. We went around almost whole of Putrajaya and sometimes ended lost. Our 1st stop was at the Putrajaya Convention Centre.
Time: 15.00
Today, we rented a car and begin our project of photo capturing about the tourist attraction places in Putrajaya. We went around almost whole of Putrajaya and sometimes ended lost. Our 1st stop was at the Putrajaya Convention Centre.
At 1st the weather was very cloudy and it rained, later on at night the weather had improved a bit and was quite beautiful especially after the rain. Our next stop was Alamanda (The shopping centre of Putrajaya).
We captured some photographs while waiting for the night to come. Then we went to some of the most famous bridges around Putrajaya to capture some breath taking photographs of the "Night of Putrajaya". After that we decided to call it a day and went back home to sleep as it is already late at night and all of us had classes the next day.
Here are some of the wonderful images:
This is a night view of one of the famous bridges in Putrajaya taken by us.
Here is a beautiful photo of the Istana Melawati taken by Ehsan Lankarani.
Here's another photograph of another famous bridge in Putrajaya ;)
The Project Begins
Date: 12/11/2006
Time: 16.30
Today, Jerry and Jaswant went to Ehsan's house for a meeting. We brought some images and a list of the tourist attraction places in Putrajaya to discuss with Ehsan. We also had prepared something for the web blog and posted it in Hubpages.com. We discussed about which places to go in Putrajaya and planed our journey. We had also discussed about the progress of the Putrajaya map that Ehsan had did with Macromedia Freehand and fortunately its 90% completed.
Time: 16.30
Today, Jerry and Jaswant went to Ehsan's house for a meeting. We brought some images and a list of the tourist attraction places in Putrajaya to discuss with Ehsan. We also had prepared something for the web blog and posted it in Hubpages.com. We discussed about which places to go in Putrajaya and planed our journey. We had also discussed about the progress of the Putrajaya map that Ehsan had did with Macromedia Freehand and fortunately its 90% completed.
Here is the Putrajaya map created by Ehsan in vector format using Macromedia Freehand.Second Meeting
Second meeting
Date: 10/11/2006 Time: 18:30
Today we discussed about the contents of our multimedia CD. we divided the multimedia CD in seven sections which are:
1- Main Page
2- Map
3- List
4- Information
5- Interactive questions
6- Movie
7- About us
- Main Page:
we are going to design the main page after we make other sections.
- Map:
We decided to draw the map of Putrajaya and show the important places on the map. When users click on a place in the map they can see the information and also photos of that place. The benefit is tourists can find places on the map and make a schedule and visit all of them. If they want to use their own car they can find their destination by using the map and following the roads.
- List:
we want to make a list of places and categorize them with a small photo of that place. The advantage of this section is if a user only knows the name of a place and wants to get information about it. The user can easily search in the list section and by click on the name of place can get information. Because data are sorted in this section users can go inside a title and get information about that specific section. For instance if a person wants to get information about bridges in Putrajaya he/she can goes under the title "bridges" and see all of the bridges in Putrajaya in that section.
-Information:
we are going to put photos and texts about each place in one page in this section.
- Interactive Question:
is the entertainment part of this CD. We are going to ask some useful and important questions about Putrajaya in this section. People can improve their knowledge about Putrajaya by using this section.
- Movie:
we decided to have some movie in this section. And also we want to make movie by using photos of Putrajaya and background music. It is useful for the people who can not go to Putrajaya at least they can have a virtual tour to this place. Or maybe the movie section can persuade someone to come and visit.
- About us:
we want to make some information about ourselves in this section.
Date: 10/11/2006 Time: 18:30
Today we discussed about the contents of our multimedia CD. we divided the multimedia CD in seven sections which are:
1- Main Page
2- Map
3- List
4- Information
5- Interactive questions
6- Movie
7- About us
- Main Page:
we are going to design the main page after we make other sections.
- Map:
We decided to draw the map of Putrajaya and show the important places on the map. When users click on a place in the map they can see the information and also photos of that place. The benefit is tourists can find places on the map and make a schedule and visit all of them. If they want to use their own car they can find their destination by using the map and following the roads.
- List:
we want to make a list of places and categorize them with a small photo of that place. The advantage of this section is if a user only knows the name of a place and wants to get information about it. The user can easily search in the list section and by click on the name of place can get information. Because data are sorted in this section users can go inside a title and get information about that specific section. For instance if a person wants to get information about bridges in Putrajaya he/she can goes under the title "bridges" and see all of the bridges in Putrajaya in that section.
-Information:
we are going to put photos and texts about each place in one page in this section.
- Interactive Question:
is the entertainment part of this CD. We are going to ask some useful and important questions about Putrajaya in this section. People can improve their knowledge about Putrajaya by using this section.
- Movie:
we decided to have some movie in this section. And also we want to make movie by using photos of Putrajaya and background music. It is useful for the people who can not go to Putrajaya at least they can have a virtual tour to this place. Or maybe the movie section can persuade someone to come and visit.
- About us:
we want to make some information about ourselves in this section.
First Meeting.
First meeting
Date: 9/11/2006 Time: 17:20
Today, we wanted to choose a topic. Everyone suggested one topic and we discussed about them.
Jerry: "Malaysian food"
- Easy to find resources.
- Introduce Malaysian food.
- Malaysia has many types of food.
- We can compare prices.
- Since all everybody like to eat, we have too many audiences.
Jaswant: "Malaysian wedding"
At first he showed us a video about wedding in Chinese style. Then he talked about the reasons that he had selected this topic and what we can show in our multimedia CD.
- Prepare for wedding.
- Food in wedding.
- Introduce different ceremony for different races.
- Cost of wedding.
- Procedures.
- Do and don't.
Ehsan: "Tourist attraction in Putrajaya"
After discussion we selected the third topic which is Tourist attraction in Putrajaya. We are going to talk about the reasons of choosing this topic in the proposal.
Proposal:
Group Name: A.R.T
Group Leader: Ehsan Lankarani 1041110580
Group members: Jerry Lim Hock Eng 1051101104
Jaswant Singh 1051100234
Topic: Tourist attraction in Putrajaya.
Target: Both for local and foreign people.
Characteristic: Adventurous
Why this topic is chosen?
One of Malaysia's source of economy is tourism. Based on some research Malaysia has earned $5 B in 2003 at tourism. Therefore this topic can be very useful and has many audiences.
What are we going to do?
- Show / features interesting places in Putrajaya.
- Insert some information about places and also history of Putrajaya.
- Facts and trivia.
- Interactive questions.
- Videos, sounds and Photos.
Date: 9/11/2006 Time: 17:20
Today, we wanted to choose a topic. Everyone suggested one topic and we discussed about them.
Jerry: "Malaysian food"
- Easy to find resources.
- Introduce Malaysian food.
- Malaysia has many types of food.
- We can compare prices.
- Since all everybody like to eat, we have too many audiences.
Jaswant: "Malaysian wedding"
At first he showed us a video about wedding in Chinese style. Then he talked about the reasons that he had selected this topic and what we can show in our multimedia CD.
- Prepare for wedding.
- Food in wedding.
- Introduce different ceremony for different races.
- Cost of wedding.
- Procedures.
- Do and don't.
Ehsan: "Tourist attraction in Putrajaya"
After discussion we selected the third topic which is Tourist attraction in Putrajaya. We are going to talk about the reasons of choosing this topic in the proposal.
Proposal:
Group Name: A.R.T
Group Leader: Ehsan Lankarani 1041110580
Group members: Jerry Lim Hock Eng 1051101104
Jaswant Singh 1051100234
Topic: Tourist attraction in Putrajaya.
Target: Both for local and foreign people.
Characteristic: Adventurous
Why this topic is chosen?
One of Malaysia's source of economy is tourism. Based on some research Malaysia has earned $5 B in 2003 at tourism. Therefore this topic can be very useful and has many audiences.
What are we going to do?
- Show / features interesting places in Putrajaya.
- Insert some information about places and also history of Putrajaya.
- Facts and trivia.
- Interactive questions.
- Videos, sounds and Photos.
Introduction
Aiming Real Technology (ART) is a group of students from Multimedia University (MMU) in Malaysia. We are going to create a Multimedia CD. We decided to show tourist attraction places in Putrajaya, a garden city in Malaysia. We want to add the contents of our discussion in this blog to share our experience with others and also using the point of view of the blog viewers to improve our work. Thanks alot in advance.
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