This entry shall be a reflection and a dedication of my wonderful experience with my advertising group that proudly calls it Advant Garde. Discovered upon random assigning of cue cards, we were at first skeptical about the forming of this group. Well, for one thing, some of us never experienced each others working style, and we were left to discover that on our own.
So the assignments came, one by one, we tackled every incoming campaign executing different advertising strategies. During the brain storming sessions, we clashed over decisions, argued over ideas and concepts, spoke of our own personal preferences, and denied stubbornly against something that we disagreed on. During the presentations, many a times, we would raise our hands and rush to present first, denying other groups the opportunity to consider going first.
In this group, every individual had their own fortes. In other words, we knew we had to equally distribute the workload across the talents proper, and eventually, bring everything together for the final modification of the presentation. Yet again, we would quarrel, conflict in a friendly manner, deny ideas, preferred some other idea, and pretend to like an idea but personally dissatisfied.
On the contrary, we had lots of fun. Every brainstorming get together, not only strengthened and bonded our friendships within the group, but also enabled us to confidently trust one another . Also, thanks to the MacDonald meals and Pizza eating sessions between the discussions. As we journeyed towards the next advertising campaign, we approached every campaign confidently as a team, group, and as friends. As a result, producing ideas that were steered towards the Monkeys, the chaos, the Wendy’s Hamburgers, the Agri-tourism brochures, delivering Mike and Michelle, and finally, receiving the final critique from our Professor.
At our last presentation, we decided to go all out, bringing in nothing serious but all the good hilarious and wonderful experiences with our advertising company Advant Garde. We were so proud of ourselves when we delivered the last bits of our advertising company. No doubt, like one group member of mine said, we were never the best, or we were never at the top, but you can’t deny, that we Advant Garde always delivered the campaigns with genuine ideas that were original, creative, and uniquely risk taking.
From the Photo shop software, to the manual coloring of our storyboards, we persevered through these challenging times, and continued to the final product.
In conclusion, we learned a lot from this exciting advertising experience, not only did we learn about the advertising techniques and strategies, but also to improve on our public speaking capabilities when we pitch to our client. Randomly assigned from cue cards, well, indeed, everything turned out exhilarating, electrifying, engaging, lots of laughter and humor before and after meetings, and lastly, the friendships that were once skeptical amongst our thoughts, now exemplified as strong group integrity amongst all of us working together tirelessly into the night to accomplish our objectives for all campaigns.
This image was taken before the commencement of our advertising campaigns.
VO: Advant Garde
The Forefront of Creativity
Monkey laughter~
Here is an image of the table which i sat at, what caught my attention, was the photo frame which had our table number. The photography in that white frame was brilliant. The white image was photographed along Katong East Coast , the background nicely packs the shop houses of Katong. Different tables had different photographs taken, but I could not bring myself to stop starring at this photo lucky me.
To start of, lets talk about the important things that I noted in this show, in my own opinion which I thought were meaningful. Firstly, persevering through times of hardship, whether it was occurring in a particular place or time, when we are integrating or adapting into a new working or living environment, it is always difficult to understand at first, the upcoming tribulations and circumstances one might face. In reality, in such times, we need to tranquilly grab hold of ourselves collectively, even after several attempts that resulted in letdowns, we must never give up until we achieve those goals that we set out to accomplish. Secondly, to understand that life is never fair. There will be occasions where you are receiving successful rewards. Unfortunately, however, there will be situations or mostly, disappointments, which are bound to surface, and they will discourage you as you proceed along this narrow path. The important thing is, since you are by now half way through your journey, like the movie, tell yourself to complete what you have set out to do, ignoring the criticisms, the failures, and the unfair dealings, which you are receiving from your external environments. Instead, learn to adapt and understand fully that the fact is, only you can set things right and make things happen for yourself. Thirdly, always be open to new opportunities. In many aspects of our routine lives, we often fail to surround ourselves with possibilities that could up shoot as potentially creative ideas to do(like cooking or maybe hat making, perhaps writing a book). And finally, keeping your loved ones close to you. Simply, one can never determine when we would actually require their help emotionally, and these are the people who will never ever put you down.Blogging
When I began my first blog entry post here in Blogspot, I questioned myself wondering if this blog would ever sustain itself proper. Well, let’s just say I never had an interest in blogging, more so, updating and maintaining this blog account. Personally, I’d prefer an actual diary where I could pen down my own personal thoughts and that others would never ever get to see. Soon, blogging in my life, surfaced. Not only do I blog now, but am also looking and admiring other bloggers blogs. What’s going on? It’s the influence of new media. However, I do remind myself every time I felt like introducing a new blog entry, that is, this blog space would be visible in the Web, and that people who had accounts would view my information and leave comments should they find my ideas interesting. Honestly, did it really matter to me? Not at all, I do welcome comments at all times. Having said that, this brings me to my next section, where I would confidently say that blogging is truly a new medium that is an opportunity for anyone to express himself or herself openly.
On this positive end of the spectrum, blogging provides business propositions and opportunities for people who are often online to come together and share new insightful ideas amongst themselves. In other words, these blog spaces allows other bloggers who share commonalities in any line of work be it at art, music, food, cooking, sewing, selling, buying, marketing, advertising, and communication to the masses. Occasionally, I myself come across or discover interesting information online about politicians going about their daily political issues and advocating or enforcing their policies to no end result? In addition, I realized that there are millions or billions of bloggers all over the world, so who’s to say no one would ever drop by your blog and understand your thoughts.
On the far side, the Internet can be time consuming, and this may lead to an unhealthful way of life. From the characters depicted in the movie, it appears that the female actress Amy Adams or Julie Powell experienced several imbalances in her life because of her blog, her career, and her husband. Constantly informing her readers on her next dish,which she will partake on. Eventually, her life started to experience several impediments and she began loosing herself. From this, its goes to show that success requires lots and lots of time and hard work. Therefore, it is important to note that, although blogging is insightful, informative, communicative, and perhaps, the Internet is "my life" for some (not me though), it is crucially important to always make time to be with your loved ones - without a doubt.
Inferring from the movie, one cannot help but observe the passion of Julie Powell as she whips up recipe after recipe after watching videos and reading from Julia’s cookbook. Inspiration, determination, and the desire to succeed by completing a certain amount of recipes within a year.
Here are my personal inputs:
At the end of the film, I was left with good humor, loved every bit of particular scenes that included the cooking and the eating, the wine, friends, and more importantly, being around loved ones.
A winning movie worthy of an Oscar!!!
Sweeping Me Off My Seat
Imagine an open field, with beautiful views unobstructed, and imagine a camp fire, with tents. Also, people dressed in nothing you have ever seen before, feathers, markings on their faces with stripes for tribal identity, cross bows, arrows, knives, a warriors lair. Next, you hear music and the people dancing around this fire, singing to the gods with dances that exemplified the rituals of a Red Indian’s Tribe.
This film embodied me with an impression that I would never have forgotten, and for that, I am going to share with you my understanding with this wonderful movie which came to Singapore sometime during the early 90’s and this movie was named “Dances With Wolves.”
Yes indeed, an award winning film well written by Greg Bole. This film is a sweeping epic that you'll never forget whether you liked it or not. It enlightens the tale of love, loyalty, friendship, and self-realization in a magnificent setting among different people, places, and during an era of strife, which was the time of the Civil War. This film was my first encounter with Hollywood actor Kevin Costner and I believed this film was the start of his acting stardom. During the show, the first thing a viewer is struck by is the amazing landscape of western South Dakota. Though, having not been there myself, I have heard about the wonderful lush landscape about that situate. It is not clear to me though, but I remember watching the movie and the music or composition, which accompanied the film, was pleasantly unforgettable. Overall I must say, the depiction of the characters in the movie were not only breathtaking, but also enriching because viewers get to experience an insight tribal life of a native Red Indian living in the open fields.
After reading from The Internet Movie Database, the story deals with Lt. John Dunbar (Kevin Costner), a disillusioned Civil War vet who was ask over to be transferred to a western post so he can see the west "before it's gone". He is then sent to a deserted fort where he finds himself in an insecure position of being the only white man (the last I recalled, it’s been too long) in a land of Indians who seems intent on stealing his horse. He decides to try to get to know the Indian tribe and eventually becomes one of them. During his acculturation, I recalled very vaguely, Dunbar constantly recording his experiences into his little brown diary, in which, he would refer to, and continue to document his findings, and this diary was dear to him.
