Short Film

Ooohhhh it has been a long time that I haven't written any post... I'm too busy (or pretend to be busy actually. xixi). 

Well, this time I wanna talk about Short Film (yeeaaaahhh!!) do you like watching film?? I do like it. A LOT!! (no body asked you Fitri!!). How about making the film?? have you?? (yuhuuu...) I wanna share my experience in making film. Last month I joined "WIFFest : Wall Street Institute Film Festival" (where is the S?? lol), what's that?? that was making movie competition for students of Wall Street Institute (WSI, that's school of English). The theme for the competition was comedy. So, the film maker had to make a comedy film with duration max 10 minutes (that wa challenging me). As a newbie in making film, WSI gave us many workshops to help us during we made the film. I wanna give my little-tiny-knowledge for you guys. And these are what I got:

1. Do not think too hard about equipment. You know guys (of course you don't know, I haven't told you yet), I made my film with pocket camera not video camera and I could make it and that was finished. That means you still can make one with or without video camera. One of the speaker in workshop is Paul Agusta he is one of the judges in FFII (if I'm not mistake), he told us that there was a man who record his film with cell phone camera and it's done!! (unbelievable!!) even, that wasn't really really recommended, because the resolution was so freaking bad. By that story, the whole idea is that you can make a film with anything you have and can be used. And one last thing, film is doesn't have to be video, he showed us a film just slides of photos and that works. The movie was Indonesia Bukan Negara Islam. So, don't you worry.
2. Make a simple story. Short film is different with a usual film, and the difference is time, you just show your film in minutes (OMG... that's why it's called SHORT movie -.-'). So, don't make a complicated story, adopt the story from your daily life or you experience. Just make it simple, but if you can wrap it creatively, that's gonna be special (you think martabak, special!!) I mean interesting. First, when I haven't watched any short film, I thought that was amazing story, different story or unpredictable. But, when I saw it in YouTube, that was just simple story and I started to think that I also can make it. So do you guys.
3. Use variety shot size. do you know what shot size is?? I know it (snob). Shot size is the size when you take pictures with your camera. There were three big part of shot size. Long shot, Medium shot and Close up. Long shot is you take the pictures from far distance (do you mean 1km from the object??)., or if the object is human, that's gonna be full body. This is the example Long Shot. You see, the object looks smaller then the background.  Next is medium shot is half body usually used when the object is talking between two, this is it Meidum Shot. And the last is close up. Close up is close size, that could be a quarter of body or just face, that's used to show the specific activity or specific thing, Close Up. You'd better use variety shot size to make your movie interesting. If you just make by only one size, that's gonna be boring and flat.
4. Use as less as actor and place. In short film you don't have to use so many actors and places, because that's gonna make your film complicated and make you difficult if you need to retake the scene. In my film,  I just use 2 actress, me and my sister (xixi), and the place was only my room. simple.
5. Editing. After you take shots you gotta edit your film (sure!!) to combine the scenes or ti cut unwanted parts. Then what's the software?? dude, don't be too panic. You can buy it in software store only 30.000 rupias or download it FREE (uuuyeeaah) in Mr. Google windows: www.jahshaka.org, www.debugmode.com, www.virtualdub.org and many more, mac: http://www.fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/, jahshaka also, or that include in your pc. For macbook Apple, you have iMovie and for windows, you have Windows Live Movie Maker or Windows Movie Maker (the old one). Well, in editing that must be transitions, in movie editor has many kinds of transition such as the "cut" (suddenly change to another scene), the fade, it's simply a cross-dissolve between two scenes, the wipe, like you wipe the window :p, and fancy transition, like bubbles, wave, spin ect. The most used one is the fade. to make your movie professional get away from those fancy tansition (why why why?? that's cool men!!)lol. That looks crazy and gonna make your audience vomit.lol
6. Do not use commercial music. That means, don't put someone's song, usually popular one into your film without their permission. Tat is PIRACY!! Just use sound effect which can be downloaded in Mr. Google for FREE...
7. No logo or brand in your film. For example the actor wears Nike t-shirt, and Nike logo appears in your film. If, Nike company knows that, you can be demanded. So, be careful buddy.
8. The last thing and I think this is the most important thing, is Make the film done. You have idea, take shot and finish it. If you want to make good film, make finished film first. But, if you think too long to make it, then you never make it at all.

Woohooo that all I can give you. Maybe ya'all curious, what is my film. I can share those, because I've done mine, and the result I won "The Best English Award" (yeeeeaaaahhhh!!!!) when the host mentioned my name I was just flabbergasted, I couldn't believe it easily. My film was "3-Act Drama" (please see and like :p). See ya in my next post and keep reading my blog (n_n)

Naskah Berita

Hmmm, kali ini saya mau berbagi dengan sesama mahasiswa dan mahasiswi yang ambil jurusan komunikasi. Saya mau membagi ilmu tentang naskah berita. Di jurusan ini pasti udah ga asing lagi kan sama yang namanya berita, secara nanti lulusannya mau jadi reporter ya.. Naskah berita tuh ga sembarangan bikin lho, mesti sesuai medium yang digunakan untuk nyempein itu berita (maksud lo??), jadi naskah berita untuk TV itu pasti beda sama naskah berita untuk Koran/Cetak. Apaan aja tuh bedanya?? Nah, mari kita lihat dan pelajari bersama-sama.

1. Untuk berita cetak, boleh ada lebih dari satu pikiran utama. Sedangkan untuk TV, pikiran utama ga boleh lebih dari satu. Kenapa?? karena TV itu seringkali dikonsumsi sambil lalu atau sambil mengerjakan hal yang lain sehingga konsentrasi akan terbagi, jika kita memberikan pikiran utama lebih dari satu untuk naskah berita TV, itu akan membingungkan penontonnya karena berita TV itu tidak bisa diulang kalau kita ga paham, kecuali kita pake TV yg canggih yang bisa merekam. Sedangkan koran berbeda, kalau misalnya pembaca bingung atau kurang jelas, ia bisa mengulang lagi berita tersebut dengan bembaca ulang.
2. Naskah Cetak detil, Naskah TV Simpel. Nah, ini maksudnya kalau kita menulis naskah suatu berita, di koran kita boleh tulis panjang lebar, sedetil mungkin. Mis: menulis berita tentang Piala AFF, untuk koran kita bisa menuliskan sejarah berdirinya pertandingan, siapa saja yang mendirikan dsb, tapi kalu di naskah TV kita tidak bisa menulis se-detil itu, karena TV berkaitan erat dengan durasi, jadi hanya simpel dan ringkas. Tapi ingat, simpel dan ringkas itu bukan berarti pelit ya... maksudnya jelas.
3. Naskah Cetak menggunakan bahasa tulis, Naskah TV menggunakan bahasa tutur. Apa sih bahasa cetak dan bahasa tutur itu?? Bahasa cetak itu adalah bahasa yang digunakan untuk keperluan cetak seperti koran tabloid dll, seddangkan bahasa tutur itu adalah bahasa yang digunakan untuk berbicara langsung, singkatnya bahasa tutur lebih mudah dipahami. Kenapa TV dan Cetak pake bahasa yang berbeda? itu alasannya sama dengan yang no. 1. contoh: "Dikatakan Irfan, bagi umat Islam, khusus di Jawa Barat yang terkenal Religius, nilai-nilai Islam itu sangan relevan dengan budaya Jawa Barat, yang mengedepankan nilai-nilai gotong royong" nah contoh tersebut merupakan contoh bahasa cetak yang saya ambil dari koran POSKOTA. Coba deh, kalian minta orang untuk membacakan berita tersebut dan kalian menutup mata, apakah kalian akan langsung memahami berita tersebut. Biasanya sih tidak. nah kalau berita tersebut dirubah dalam bahasa tutur akan jadi seperti ini: "Irfan mengatakan, umat Islam di Jawa Barat mengedepankan nilai-nilai gotong royong yang relevan dengan nilai-nilai Islam"
4. Naskah Cetak boleh menggunakan Anak Kalimat, Naskah TV tidak. Apa sih anak kalimat? contoh: "Irfan Bachdim yang merupakan pemain naturalisasi berdarah Indo Belanda ini menangis saat pertandingan usai" yang digaris bawahi itu yang namanya anak kalimat, jadi anak kalimat itu menjelaskan subjek. Kalau di cetak, sah-sah saja pakai anak kalimat karena bisa diulang lagi, tapi kalao di TV jangan memakai anak kalimat karena penonton bisa kehilangan subjek yang ada, karena bingung. Selain itu, dalam bahasa tutur / tatap muka biasanya kita tidak menggunakan anak kalimat.

Ya, itulah sedikit ilmu yang bisa saya bagi sama kalian semua. Semoga bisa bermanfaat ya buat semua yang baca blog saya.. keep reading my blog and wait for my next post...  (n_n)

How To Be A Good Teacher

Hey, what do you think about teacher?? anybody wants to be a teacher?? I think teacher is an awesome job ever!! well, even that's hard to get much money from that job (but,there's way to get more, I believe that), you do such a cool things (lol). For example, you can ask your students to do what do you want (in good things of course) you know, they pay for you, so we can say, you make your boss do what you want (lol rotf). Other cool thing is you get the holiday as long as students get, don't you?? which is longer than any other jobs. See, teacher is awesome job!!

Now, I'm going to share what I did before. A couple of days ago I discussed with few of my friend about how to be a good teacher and how to manage the class, because I wanna teach in courses as part time job, well you know to get some more money (hihihi). After the discussion, I did micro teaching (MT) which was I pretended to teach in front of the class and the students were my friends, and also all of my friend did that. there was 3 judges (not actually the real, only my other friends which already become a real teacher). After all of us done the MT, we gave some comments and suggestions for each other. So, I got many conclusions how to be a good teacher and how to manage the class, especially for teaching in informal school. Here some what I got;

1. Make the student relax before study; that's a good point to start teaching, because the students are gonna feel comfort and that makes us easier to deliver the lesson. How to make students relax?? build the relation between you and the students. ex/ ask them "how are you??" "are you tired??" "how did you get here??" or "have you got lunch??" those questions can make them relax because they feel like they get your attention.
2. Prepare well; Before you teach, the lesson must be prepared. So, you'll know what are you gonna teach and you won't get confused. If you look confuse in the class, the students will doubt your ability. And when you explain the lesson, make it step by step, ex/give the theory first then the example then give the exercise, don't confusing your students. The other things are prepare as many example as you can, so when student asks you about the other example, you've prepared the answer, especially for math, you gotta give a lot of examples and exercises to make the students understand perfectly.
3. Very entertaining; Entertaining teacher is interesting teacher. Most of students like that type of teacher, because they won't get bored easily and they'll pay attention on you. Because it's specialize for teaching in course, you'd better be different with teacher in school, I mean don't be too serious. Make some jokes sometimes, and be creative.
4. Give your attention fair; don't give your attention just for the superior student. Give your attention to every single students even they sit in the corner of the class and almost unable to see..
5. the last think sounds unimportant but actually need to do; Write the full sentence; don't write like this "m'beri" "m'bagi" ect

Well, that's what I can share to you all, I hope this is useful and easy to understand, because I know you could confuse with my awful English (lol).. see ya for the next post.... (n_n)

Universitas Al-Azhar Indoneia

Well, this is my first post (yeeaayy), and it's 1.30 am!! (lol). This time I'm gonna tell you about my college. What is it?? Universitas Al-Azhar Indonesia (UAI)... Maybe some of you already know about UAI, but I just want to tell you more about UAI especially for you who doesn't know UAI.

UAI is located in Komplek Masjid Agung Al-Azhar Jakarta. UAI has 6 faculties;
Faculty of Science and Technology
Faculty of Economic
Faculty of Literature
Faculty of Psychology and Education
Faculty of Law
Faculty of Social and Politic Science

Well, I'm studying in Faculty of Social and Politic Science, majoring communication science. UAI has good vision and this is UAI's vision "Menjadikan Universitas Al Azhar Indonesia sebagai pusat pendidikan terbaik di Indonesia yang bertaraf internasional dengan mengembangkan manusia yang dapat mengintegrasikan dimensi intelektual, spiritual, dan etika-moral sebagai modal untuk meningkatkan kesejahteraan umat manusia" (I'm too lazy to translate those words, lol), to boost its vision UAI supply the students with 7 Basic Elements or "7 Elemen Dasar"
Islamic Value

Information Technology
Languange Skill
Networking
Leadership
Enterpreneurship
Management Skill

With those Elements we hope that UAI can make the best students (amin).

Hmmm, I have a lot of reasons to be in UAI, one of them is in UAI there's no seniority. We all same, we can do what our seniors do even we are new. So, that makes no gap between us. But, I don't wanna lie to you guys, that sometime I get bored there. Well, maybe because I just study and don't join any activities there. Which actually UAI has a lot of student activities such as, sport, dancing, singing, photographing, making movie, ect.

Well, I think it's enough for today my first post. I'm getting sleepy (hoaaaam) because it's late night, 2.10 AM now and I'll have morning class tomorrow.. See ya with my next exiting post (n_n)

hey, once more if you want to get more info about UAI, you can open this site www.uai.ac.id