As a student in MMU (Multimedia University), we all know that FCM (Faculty of Creative Multimedia), offer a unique and different set of syllabus. FCM students are totally different with the others in Multimedia University. Faculty of Creative Multimedia is the only faculty in Multimedia University, which require its students to become creative. The dean of the faculty is Harold Thwaites. While other colleges and universities offer multimedia courses, MMU is considered to have the best multimedia course. There are lots of major offered by this faculty, such as Film and Animation, Interface Design, as well as Virtual Reality, etc. All of these majors exist only for one purpose; to make this faculty similar with an art school. As a FCM student we concentrate more on how to make art in this modern world. Art is a special and unique thing. It can be anywhere, in television, on the internet, even though in a toilet. Studying in FCM really gives a lot of experiences, and these experiences are not only from the faculty, but also from the surrounding environment. The faculty provides enough facilities to ensure the students to have a good quality of learning. For example, design studios, computer labs, galleries that exhibit student’s works, and background studios.
Experience is good in our life. It teaches us everything and most of them are good for our future. In creative multimedia there are a lot of experiences that we can learn from around it. From primary school, high school, university, work and home, or even in our individual time. As an example, a design student is gaining his experience through the learning process. During the process he will learn about on how to use a simple thing to make an impaction art work. They will gain their experience on how to make something that can attract other people to look at their artworks. The design must be as simple as possible, so that people can easily understand what they are trying to tell through their artworks. As usual, a design’s lecturer will give a lot of assignment in order to train their students getting used to it and make each day of their students getting better in doing their artworks. Experience can change our life. For example like entering a contest, some participates does not care about they are winning or losing. For them, they only care about the experience they get from the contest. Besides, study and work is also a good method to gain new experience and the most important thing is the invention of new things or called as innovation. We can get many experiences by working. In the other hand, we will feel the situation in how a designer works. We can choose a lot of career that related with FCM, so that we can attract more people and more examples that we can get in work circle.
MMU have two campuses in Malaysia (Melacca and Cyberjaya). But the Faculty of Creative Multimedia only can be found in Cyberjaya campus only. The life style of FCM students are totally unlike the others. A creative student can choose anything and anytime they want, because FCM students have most coursework rather than exam. FCM students usually do lots of interaction with the other people and they spend most of the time in front of a computer. Few days of sleepless night cause by the assignments. So their lifestyle is totally different with the student of other faculties. In the night time with no works to do, they try a lot of method to release their tension, such as watching television programs, playing computer games, etc. Although people always say these kinds of activities is wasting time, but it is meaningful for a FCM student. FCM students can refer to the game that they play for doing their assignments, such as character designing and 3D environments. Playing games is the most functioning method to find ideas while release the stress. For the FCM students which are not big fans of games, they will stay away from the computer and starting to hang out with their friends. These types of FCM students are prefer the physical activity than computer games. There are two types of this people. The first type prefers the not so healthy activity, such as go to club to have fun. The second type prefers to do some healthy exercise, such as football, volleyball, gym, etc. FCM students must be creative enough in order to survive. All their artworks must be unique from the rest, so sitting in front of a computer and do nothing is wasting their time. After the all day long of lecturer classes and tutorial classes and the perfect time for them to do their artwork or find some ideas is in night.
The tools using by a FCM student is just as simple as ABC. They use a tools same as the primary school when they want to do their artworks. All the drawing basic skills are already learned from the primary schools. There is a bit of different while using the tools in high school, because in high school the teacher is trying to teach us to master the skills and tools. Then in the university, we just use all the skills and tools that already mastered to produce the artworks only. Besides the physical tools, there have a lot of software tools as well. All the software tools are using to edit or create the artwork. These are some example of the software, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop, and the others software which come from different company for editing or creating purpose. A FCM student is not just to learn creativity only; they need to learn programming as well which would be useful in their future life. The software tools need to be upgrade sometimes, so that they can use the new functions inside it to produce other good artworks. Creativity is not the thing that we can create without any experiences and knowledge. That is why our MMU is offering this unique course to the public, so that lots of people will learn the important of creativity in this world. With our creativity towards the multimedia from time to time, we will get a lot of experiences which bring us to another level of creativity. With our creativity, we can create things that contain big impact which shall change the world in the future.
FCM ensures the graduates to have a job after they graduate. Rarely do you see a graduate of MMU without a job. It is because the field of multimedia is very wide and MMU covers all of it. Graduates have the choice of working with a local company and an international company. MMU collaborates with international companies to ensure the students have a broad mind in multimedia. Most graduates work in famous international companies such as Pixar, Codemasters, Dreamworks and Disney. Together, they produced outstanding visuals and effects.
Malaysia has been starting to show signs of development in multimedia, thanks to MMU. One of the graduates of MMU, Nizam Razak, is known for his hit 3D animation: Upin Ipin. Besides that, other graduates also helped the multimedia development of Malaysia.
All I can say is, MMU’s Faculty of Creative Multimedia has been an important benefactor to producing talented Malaysians.
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