Week 4, 22 September. Hearing Problem.

Mind Map

I have problem with my ears since I was young. My both ears cannot listen sounds clearly. I don’t remember when this problem started but I think it happened since I’m in primary school.

It’s been a long time that I suffered from my hearing problem but I never visit a doctor. Yes, I have the thought of my hearing problem may influence my whole life and I did asked my mother for bringing me to visit doctor before. I asked for two times, she promised me but no action was taken in the end. So, I gave up on asking her. Hate her? No, I love her. I could understand her, she has a more big and serious problem to face – my brother. My brother is only one year younger than me but he can’t talk and has difficulty in communicating with others. He is a child with Autism. He can’t express himself clearly since he was 5 years old. Started from that year, my mum pays more attention on my brother and always busy to find out what makes my brother like this.

My hearing problem seems getting worse year by year. The frequency that I asked friends to repeat increased greatly. I am grateful that my friends are quite kindhearted. They always help me patiently and make sure I didn’t missed any single thing during lessons. And of course, some of them get annoyed. I feel so sorry for disturbing them.

By the way, I have nasal allergy so that is why I always sneezing. Nose, ears and throat are connected. The way I sneeze may is one of the reason that make me can’t hear clearly. I sneeze too hard.

Many people wondered and asked me why I don’t visit the doctor. I know and understand my mother doesn’t care is not a good excuse because this is about my life not hers but I’m just scare and I don’t know why. How if the doctor tell me there is no therapy can help me out but wearing a hearing aid for the rest of my life? I have no guts to face my problem. Maybe is I think too much but this is my real feelings. 

Week 4, 21 September. Video Shooting Practice.

The exercise for class today is video shooting practice. 

Thanks Carine for being my partner when I found out that I made mistake!

I have took four different shots which are wide shot, medium shot, medium close-up shot and close up shot.

I uploaded my videos to Google drive.

Here is the link for it :-

Click me for videos! @Google Drive

Week 3, 14 Sept. More about myself.

We lived under a high pressured world. We were forced to face the problems that we always wanted to ignore. In the end, we pressured, we stressed. For me, my pressure are mainly from my study life and finances. 

I having problem doing 3D model. It's quite interesting actually but it required techniques to build a good model. And also, I have problem with my ears(I think). I can't hear sounds and voices very well, so I always asked people to repeat. Because of this, I spent more and more time to complete the sonic design exercises. I always tried my best to complete the exercises perfectly but I'm dissatisfied with the final outcomes all the time. So helpless so stressed.

My new goal for this year is "be independent". I don't want to rely on my parents too much since I'm already a university student.So, I started the first step to achieve this goal, I tried to pay most of my expenses by myself. It's kinda challenging because I only have one hundred fifty as my pocket money so I have always think twice before I buy things. Also, I forced myself must save some money monthly. I'm on my way to be financially independent. By the way, I also do some part time jobs to earn some money during holidays.

I worked with my friend in JR NBA event.
The middle one is Burnie from team OKC. He's my idol now HAHAHA

These two things have always stressed me out so I spent most of my time on it. Sometimes, I really get tired of these and don't feel like facing it anymore. 

Everyone has their own ways to distress. For examples, they might to have a short trip with their loved ones,or shopping crazily,or doing sport activities or many things else. They release their stress through expending their energy and money.

For me, it's be lazy. 
Let procrastinate. Let do nothing.
Let me escape from these annoying world for awhile.

I will just laying on my bed and read the thick Chinese novel or Japanese comic.

Or, sitting on a chair and stick with the laptop screen or paint something.

But no eating, it will make me gain fat and I also feel lazy to cook or find.

Mind map

Week 3, 15 Sept. Explosion and Punches.

 I used a lot of time to finish sonic design exercise again.

As title, this time we were asked to edit and create 

an explosion and triple punch sound effects. 

Below are the links and screenshot for this exercise.

Explosion on SoundCloud

Explosion

Triple Punch on SoundCloud

Triple punch

Week 1, 9 September. Gun Modelling.

For this week, our second exercise is build a gun model.
We followed the tutorial video that Mr Kannan shared on FB group 
and built a basic gun model.

Basic gun model

Then, I added some details on it.
Below are the screenshot of my final outcome.

Right/Left side view

Side view 

Side view (2)

Back view

Rendered image

Week 1, 7 September. Toy Car.

First attempt in 3D modelling! 

Front view

Back view

Right view

Left view

Because it really looks very bad, so I make a new one.

Front view

Front view 2

Back view

Back view 2

Left view

Right view

 Then, I have designed and done the tyre surface but I don't know(forgot) how to bend it...
So...
To be continued!

Tyre Surface

**Update**

Bend Tyre Surface

***Update***

After applying blinn and texture.

Week 2, 8 September. Panning in Multitrack.

Not only learnt how to create sound effect, we also learnt to pan the audio in multi track.

I tried to make it sounds like the jet plane is taking U-turn, but it sounds like the jet plane just turn left/right in the end.

Below are the screenshot and link for this exercise.

Jetplane U-turn on SoundCloud

Jetplane U-turn

Week 2, 6 September. Parametric Equalizer.

For this exercise, we were given 5 same songs, 

which are one original track and the rest are with four different filters. Our task is adjust these four songs with filters match to the original track. 

I really bad at hearing, this exercise really costed me lots of time.

But anyway, I tried my best to make them sound similar. 

:D

Below are the screenshots for this exercise.

EQ 1

EQ 2

EQ 3

EQ 4

Week 2, 8 September. Voice Effect.

This is my first time to go into a recording studio. It amazed me especially the wood blocks on the wall, I thought it's just the decoration. HAHAHAHA. Actually it's designed to reflect and diffuse the sound in controlled way to improve sound quality in the studio 

Okayyyy, the exercise for this class is adding the effect by using parameter equalizer. We were asked to edit the original sound track and make it sounds like voices from walkies talkies, telephone and in the closet.

Below are the screenshots and links for this exercise.
(P/S:I don't know how to make it like sharing YouTube video on blogger, 
so please click the links below! Sorry!)

Muffled voice on SoundCloud

Muffled voice

Walkie Talkie on SoundCloud

Walkie Talkie

Telephone on SoundCloud

Telephone

Week 2, 7 September. Self Representation.

"Today I don't feel like doing anything, I just wanna lay in my bed."

-"The lazy song"

The song which I selected to represent myself is "The lazy song" by Bruno Mars.This song was released on February 15,2011 and it was the bestselling digital singles with sales of 6.5 million copies in year 2011.

One thing to prove my max level of laziness is I tried not eating anything in more than 24 hours before. I did this because I am so lazy to search for food and bite it. Hmm, the laziest and also the craziest that I wanted to try is, to request for KFC delivery but the KFC is only 5 minutes away from my house. HAHAHAHA I have thought of doing this many times before, but I realized it was just wasting sources so then I gave up."How if I make someone really hungry could not get his food quickly?!NOHHH".Although I am lazy, but I have my rules and limits. DO NOT make troubles to others.

BUT FIRST , I have to mention, this only happens during my holidays! I'm a responsible student. I have always completed all the homework, exercises, assignment and everything that I should do. :D

We all live under a high pressured society, so we all must have our own way to relax and enjoy life. For me, lazing around is my kind of way to enjoy life. I really enjoy doing nothing although my mum think that i am just wasting my time. Actually, not really, I released my stress and boost my positive energy when I doing nothing!  :)