Multimedia Studies and Creative Technologies
Final Project
Dabbling with Creative Technologies
Overview
“Instead of suppressing creativity, technology has the ability to enhance specific areas of the creative process, by presenting a new platform for creativity to exist on (and come from). Through the advancement of technology, ideas (which may have once existed within our minds) can now be set free and come to life in the physical world. We now have the necessary tools for greater possibilities and more innovative solutions.“
Maggie Mackenzie, Creativity In A World Of Technology: Does It Exist?, smashingmagazine.com
Goals
This project must…
- Be a practical expression of what I learned in my Multimedia Studies and Creative Technologies concentration.
- Improve my overall understanding of programming concepts so that I can more naturally understand the underpinnings of application software.
- Enable me to develop my practical coding skills to an advanced level so that I can utilise these skills if required.
- Collect together all the creative technology projects I have worked on while undertaking my MTA.
Components
Timeline
2014 – Started studying programming and coding in HTML. Started researching and writing Ways 2 Interface. Started developing and filming The Miracle of Crowdfunding. Started developing Breaking Cinema and The Cinema Complex. Abandoned The Miracle of Crowdfunding when I decided I was going to build my own master’s degree.
2015 – Orchestrated 365 FRAMES 2015, created my 12 cameo microfilms and started reconfiguring The Miracle of Crowdfunding into The Miracle Mockumentary.
2016 – Abandoned Breaking Cinema, The Cinema Complex and The Miracle Mockumentary so I could focus all my energy on my broader MTA postgraduate studies.
2017 – Studied coding in more depth beyond web development.
2019 – Studied coding in relation to Data Science.
2020 – Applied my web development and design skills to build three websites.
2021 – Started my applied coding projects on Codecademy.
2023 – Progressed ibuiltmyown.education into a publicly presentable form.
2024 – Brought the components of this final project together.
Blog Posts
Wrap-Up
Coming soon.