This semester I have learnt a new thing which is MAX. At the start of this class, I was having no idea that why Light and camera is learning about writing something like computer program codes. But after all the studies in this semester, I knew media is about creative minds. The lighting and camera is not only the way I used to think, the machine and filming. 

I felt MAX was quite cool while I was learning this in the class. It could be anything that I want it to be. The 3-D model, the camera acoustic control or the the keys from the keyboard and also the interactive Art. I have deeper understanding about Interactive Art. At first, I thought interactive Arts was just for fun and easy to make it. But it is not. The idea of the Art from the creator is giving people who look at the Art deeper thinking about the society or themselves. The way people used to think about one thing, the creator used Interactive Art to show people in more simple ways. When I was doing my first study of this work. I made two windows, each window can be changed into two different colours which I wanna to tell people everyone could be in different “colors” no matter who you are, you need to be yourself. So that based on this idea my group members and I created the first assignment group work. We used nine windows to film people who look at this work and these nine windows shows people in many different ways, shapes or colours. But there is another window beside those nine windows which is the original window without any filter, colour for shape to reflect audiences. We use this work to tell people the person yourself is the best. After the assesigemnt one I learnt about sound control, facial recognition system codes that could make audience “handsfree” while they look at the Art works. 

The most successful part of this semester’s studying is I learnt how to think a bout an Art work as well as the most important thing—creative minds. Creative mind went through my whole study of this semester. In another hand, the idea of an Arte work is very important too. Just like my major project. I just put a window that is slow motion and a time counter which runs faster than the clock usually runs. I just want to use this project to tell people that when you are wasting your time or do your work slowly the time is passing much faster than you think it should be as well as Camille told me. The work does not need to be so fancy. The purpose of the work is the most important. Camille also gave a huge help at my every project, I feel really grateful about this. 

Overall, this semester I really learnt a lot about creative, codes, interactive Arts and MAX. I think in my future study I would use it often for lighting control or filming something. This is quite an interesting subject to learn. 

I got the idea from my first project. My first project was a colour changing of two windows which is to represent people have different ways to look at things and people can be different, just be themselves. So my final project I want to show people that their voice can be powerful and strong which is also main to tell people talk in their ways and be themselves. Everyone’s voice is powerful, people should tell what they want and I got the code from Ann’s work which helped me a lot.

I got the idea of this project from my study major project. My major project was about time and action which is to tell people who look at this work take actions quickly otherwise the time is passing faster than you think. So, this study 6, I was thinking about make four windows. The first window will record 3 seconds and at that time the audience need to make a sound and the video will be recorded. After that, the audience make the next sound for the next window and so on. After four videos recorded, four videos will play together to make your own music sound effect. But I still have some code not done yet, so sometimes it does not work. Camille helped me a lot on this. But I think I just need get more time to make it better. 

This project I tried hard to made a game which got the idea from Ammy’s major project. Her major project was a game to control a small character by clicking the “up”, “down”, “right” and “left” keys which is aim to ignore the small monsters to catch up. So that, I created this project which is  a game either. But it is a two people game which is let two players control their cars for a racing. While players play the game, they have a button which is to “drop” an banana to stop the other car 2 seconds so that they can catch up and get the opportunity to win. I used Ammy’s code as the bas of my work. After I showed to Paul my work, he suggested me to add a background music, so I take that suggestion and added a background music. I was satisfy with my study 6 project.