Niew Seen Ying ( 0317961 )
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Terengganu Excursion
Noor Arfa Craft Complex, 8th of March
Aperture: f 8.0
Shutter Speed: 1/ 320
ISO: 6400
On the 6th to 8th of March, our class had this trip to Terengganu. This trip was organized by Miss Natasha and followed my Miss Theresa to produce an English essay and an assignment for the Human Communication student. It is a trip based on introduction to batik, a traditional art, and it's making process. According to the lecturers, the purpose of this trip is to expose us to the basic of art and to give us a culture shock.
After an 8 hours journey on the bus, we reached the craft complex and had our breakfast. Immediately after the breakfast, we settle down at an open classroom. The activity started with a short talk about the basics of batik. The trainer told us the history of batik and the varieties of batik from different country. He also presented some tools and materials needed to make a batik. After the talk, I understood that batik came in various type of patterns and combinations. After our lunch break, we were required to design our own batik and do it our self. Basically everyone did a good job and some of them are really amazing.
After a great night rest, we continue our batik adventure with a big batik work which we are compulsory to do in groups. We needed to create a batik design with the combination of the organic batik and abstract batik. For my group, there is 4 of us. We brainstorm about the design and the theme of the art piece. The brainstorming session leads us to a theme of "Anti-Racism". In Malaysia, there are a couple of races living together in this small country. To maintain the harmony and peace of our country, we need to live together as one without discrimination and misunderstanding. And to relate to the theme, we made the main object of the batik a panda. The panda is sitting on a colourful stone which gives the meaning of different races leave together with toleration. Surprisingly, our artwork turn out not bad and we are actually satisfied.
On the last day of this 3 days trip, we did fixing for our batik. The purpose of this process is to seal the colour on the cloth. Later on, we continue on our last work for this trip. For the last piece of batik, we need to do canting and printing on a cloth combining them together to produce a batik. We are required to choose 4 prints and transfer them on the cloth. For my group, we did a batik which is a little different from the traditional batik designs. We drew a dancer and place prints on the cloth. Although it doesn't looks like a batik, it is still the product from the effort of all of the group members. The last activity is to boil the cloth that we did fixing earlier to wash of the wax on the cloth and dry it.
I chose this photo because it shows how a team works together to create a big piece of artwork. Not only we need to work together but to share ideas and produce a work which represents everyone in the group without being self-centered.
The settings i used for this photo is to make the photo a little over exposed and capture their motion with a bit of movement. I took this photo because their passion and team work to finish the batik really touched me and it shows the effort they put in to complete the task given.
Through this batik trip, I learned a couple of things regarding batik. Besides that, I also realized the importance of teamwork and the circumstance we may go through. Although there will be times with up and downs, we will need to work together and tolerate to solve the problem and be there for each other.
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General Feedback
At the starting of the lecture, Mr. Vinod mentioned that some of us did a good job for the trip excursion while a couple of us didn't meet the requirements.
Specific Feedback
Mr. Vinod said that the excursion pictured is well exposed. The use of high ISO for the picture was an interesting choice. However, there is no co-relation between the questions and the answers with regard to the excursion.
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