Category: Thesis

This week’s course consisted of an introduction to the various parts of the topic. First of all, writing in academic language is required. Secondly, it is necessary to draw from reliable sources such as formal books, academic journals, and published academic essays.

Another important part is about the structure of the text. The structure of an essay is: Title: Subtitle, Acknowledgements, Abstract, Contents Page, Introduction, Main Body of Text, Appendices.

The most helpful content for me was the introduction to referencing. I formally understood the meaning of citation and referencing.

Citing – a means of referring, within your text, to the sources from which you have obtained information.  

Reference – is the detailed description of the item from which you have obtained your information.  Bibliography – is the list of sources you have used. The bibliography usually appears at the end of your work and is arranged alphabetically. As well as listing the references you refer to in your text, it may also include details of the material you have also read, which informed your opinion, but was not referred to directly.

Through this introduction I understand when a reference is needed and when it can be left out.

The second part is about the introduction of the article’s argument.

The key elements of an argument include the following:
Statement of problem
Literature review
Precise focus of your research stated as a hypothesis, question, aim, or objective
Method and methodology
Results/evidence
Discussion and conclusion (including implications for future research)

This week involves trying to choose a theme, which can also be called a research topic. The chosen theme must in some way relate to the fields of art, design and visual culture.

My tutor gave me good guidelines and explained how to choose the right topic correctly. The direction and extent of how to choose a theme is explained in detail. In addition, I need to have the following requirements for the theme.

• I need to stay interested in this topic for more than a few months
• The selection of this topic should be neither too broad nor very narrow.
• I was able to find reliable data and materials to research my topic.
• I choose topics that are intellectually challenging and also reflect criticality

To help me understand the meaning of the appropriate topic, the tutor listed broad and narrow topic selections respectively. Through the two examples of topics, I broadly understood the extent and importance of the topics.

There is an integral link between conceptual application and technological advancement in the innovation of film and in particular, animation, raising complex and challenging questions.

The limitless potentials of developing visual and film language fuelled by technological advancement has and continues to motivate independent and ground-breaking work.
Personal Vision through independent film and animation remain central to the development of the medium.

Experimental film umbrellas a vast variety of concepts, models and approaches. The work may by nature hard to to categorise and define. It is therefore important to：

• Find systems by which we can recognise qualities, aesthetics, abstract themes and concepts.

• Analysis the influences of new technologies, society and culture on individual works or movements.

• Determine the individual motivations and priorities of the artist/s

• Establish the significance of work from a historical and contemporary context.

A link of implied narrative：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6vzDo6it9o

Experimental visual effects evolved from the combination of sound and image

This session introduces the basic structure of the paper, and discusses the content and format of each paragraph in detail.

 About my FMP thesis：

As for my orientation after graduation, I prefer to work in the animation and film production department, focusing on visual effects and 3D animation. Since I saw the first animated film, I have been looking forward to participating in the production of an animated film in the future, so I chose major in 3D animation.

Because I hope that the work I am responsible for is more inclined to the combination of theory and practice, I need to improve my professional skills, such as software proficiency in the middle and later stages. At the same time, I also need to exercise my ability to cooperate. Animation production is a team project, which requires the whole team to have the same goal and coordinate and cooperate.

I will record my exercises through the content of my blog every week, and work in groups on the actual learning content to complete a meaningful animation project with my classmates.

Personally, my learning content is more practical and technical. The paper can help me record the content and problems in the process of practice, and discuss and reflect. To some extent, it can help me exercise my ability to solve problems, and also make my mind more peaceful.

At present, I hope to do a good job in my professional field. If I am skilled, I can cooperate with people in other fields and carry out some cross-border integration, which is a good development direction.