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Josephine Karenina is the Brand, Communication & Digital Manager at PT. Hilti Nusantara in Indonesia. She is in charge of the online aspect of Hilti, especially the Hilti Online app. Earlier last year, I was working at Hilti as a digital marketing intern, and therefore I know a little bit of how and what Hilti is working on, especially from the digital aspect. I specifically picked Ms. Karenina as one of my interviewees because I want to share and show how different 'Digital Marketing' is in a global corporate company like Hilti and other advertising agencies. I was lucky enough that Ms. Karenina agreed to do a Skype interview. I asked her several questions regarding her job as a Digital Marketer, specifically in a very corporate company. Since I know that working in a corporate company is very different compared to an advertising agency, I want her thoughts and opinions on this. Here are the questions and clips of the interview. 1. What is your name, what do you do an...

Mr. Simatupang is an Indonesian documentary director, producer, and filmmaker. He is the founder of the Youth Leadership Institute, an institute that provides training programs and seminars in human capital effectiveness, media, communication, and youth leadership skills. He specializes in media communication. I first met Mr. Simatupang in Raffles Institute of Higher Education Jakarta, Indonesia during my years studying there. He was my Academic Research Communication Skills lecturer (ARCS). My friend (current classmate who was from that same ARCS class) Shannon and I were lucky enough to land a video interview with him earlier this week. Unfortunately, the video recording the interview was corrupted, and therefore we lost the actual footage. However, I had a short clip of us calling him that I will attach at the end of the blog. Since Mr. Simatupang is a filmmaker, director, and producer who had been in the industry for some time, we think that he would be a suitable candidate for u...

IRIE is the final project of an interactive experimental short movie created by two of my friends and myself for our Design Studio 2 subject. The word 'Irie' comes from a Jamaican English slang, usually to express a general term of approval (nice, good, or pleasing). Although the plot of the movie is not as nice, good, or pleasing, we chose the word nevertheless because we want to emphasize on the expression and feelings to whoever is watching. Black Mirror: Bandersnatch profoundly inspires IRIE, and it also inspired by Love, Death + Robots: The Witness art style. Here is a clip of how IRIE looks like. brainstorming for the plot first try on creating the neck slash   Since IRIE is a looping/endless movie, we couldn't really put in credits at the end of the video. So we decided to put our names on objects that can be seen throughout the beginning of the movie. The artwork's background was created manually by utilizing a printed p...

Yes, this is another post about me exciting on another Netflix original series. As someone who spends most of her downtime watching movies, Netflix became one of the top options to scroll through for film or series.  If you are subscribed to Netflix, or you are just up to date with pop culture, you must have heard about a British science fiction anthology television series called Black Mirror. Like my previous post about Love, Death + Robots , Black Mirror is also an anthological series, which means that every episode will tell a different and unrelated series. Black Mirror explores modern society, particularly concerning the unforeseen consequences of new technologies. Episodes are standalone, usually set in an alternative instant or the near future, often with a dark and ironic tone, although some are more experimental and lighter. In simpler words, the series allows the audience to see a glimpse of the possibilities that could happen in our reality with the 'help' o...

For those people who claim that they are a movie aficionado, should check out their original series, Love Death & Robots. Although technically it is not a cinematographical movie (some but not all), the series itself became one of the unique series ever created in Netflix's history. The series itself is categorized as an American adult animated science fiction anthology web television, and produced by The series is produced by Joshua Donen, David Fincher, Jennifer Miller, and Tim Miller. What makes the series considered as anthological is because each chapter does not necessarily intertwine with each other; instead, each episode is a stand-alone story. Other than that, Love Death & Robots, combined (and consisted of) live-action roles and animation as well, created by different crews from all around the world. Image source: Netflix One of the most standing pieces they released is Season 1 - Episode 3: The Witness. The story itself is short; however, it has one of th...

So for our Professional Portfolio class, we were asked to create a web folio to showcase our projects that relate to the career path we chose. I picked the name kweestin.com (edit on the 17th of March: website is now live) as my domain name. I will explain more in detail why I picked that name below. So the first thing I kept in mind when I create it is, how do I want this portfolio to represent who I am. Does it fit with my career path? So I started with designing the look and structure of it. I used Figma to design the look of it. Figma is an online platform (like Adobe Illustrator), usually to create presentations or UI/UX designs. The reason people like this platform for web designs is because once we finish designing, we can create them as a prototype. A prototype allows people to try the design to be used as an 'actual website,' where we can press the buttons to be redirected to another page, etc. This is the home page. The homepage is divided into four main sec...

On the 6th of February, our class went on a field trip to check out a multimedia exhibition held at the Singapore National Gallery. The exhibition is called City Hall: If Walls Could Talk . The exhibition tells the audience about the lesser-known stories of crucial moments that occurred within the walls of this majestic dame across its history. The display itself is held in the heart of the building at City Hall Chamber, where visitors can witness the defining events, which come alive through the innovative of augmented interactive content paired with rich storytelling. Before we enter the chamber where they actually display the exhibition, there are several cameras in front of green screens where people can take pictures and participate in supporting the exhibition (The photo then can be downloaded for personal use, and it will be displayed at the end of the exhibition along with other people who took pictures there as well). Inside the chamber, there is a huge table ...

For one of our Professional Practice Portfolio class task, the students were asked to create and update a blog about the subject. The assignments for this subject include (but not limited to) creating a website portfolio, updating our blog about our progress, picking a 'career-path' and interviewing appropriate experts of your field-of-choosings (about how they think someone like you/them need to have a good portfolio). One of my family's tradition to do every week is to watch a movie together. It can be in the cinema or at home, but we would always spend time together doing so. The introduction to cinematography by my dad became a part of who I want to be without me realizing in the first place. I thought I wanted to be an actor, as it turns out, I wasn't particularly interested in the actors of the movie. Instead, the story and how it was created into the thing you watch that makes me excited. This leads me wanting to learn more about the people behind the movie. An...

So I want to try the Thinker Blinker project from my previous post. As mentioned, they use an Arduino Pro Mini 328 - 5V/16MHz. So hence that is what I bought. Since I already have my Arduino Uno, I wanted to just use it to program my ProMini instead of having to buy USB to serial converter. Basically, the ProMini will act as the IC board of the Uno, which is the board crucial to make the Uno running. After searching the tutorial on how to connect your ProMini to your Uno, it turns out it is pretty simple. I found someone that created the tutorial here . Step 1: Remove the IC from the Arduino Uno board. This is important because we have to 'incapacitate' the Uno so that all the 'power' will go to the ProMini. Now we just have to connect the Uno to the ProMini. I'm using a solderless breadboard to help me do this because it allows me to join other external components like an LED bulb, etc. to try whether the codes actually work. Ste...