The Faculty of Creative Multimedia, also known as FCM, incorporates academic study with a broad creative digital technology production work. Therefore, Multimedia University is placed at the lead of Malaysian creative multimedia education. The faculty was considered back in 1997 and the pioneers had exact purpose and that is none other than to produce designers who are experts in digital content.
The faculty is made up of a well-proportioned team of academicians and industry professionals in arts, architecture, broadcasting, computing, design, animation, and advertising. This faculty provides a good learning environment for Multimedia University design students. They will get a lot of art information, skills and techniques in drawing, thinking and create a creative design.
The entry requirement for local students in Foundation of Creative Multimedia is passing in SPM /O level or its equivalent with 5Cs inclusive of English and Mathematics or Pass in UEC with 4 Bs inclusive of English and Mathematics. Fees would be around RM10,000. As for international students, the entry requirement would be passing in O Levels / equivalent with 5 Credits inclusive of Mathematics, or passing in A Levels/equivalent with 3 Credits, inclusive of Mathematics/Economics, and fulfill MMU's English Requirement. Fees for international students would be around RM12 500 or USD 4 170. It will take 3 years to finish up the major courses in degree. Local fess would be around RM39, 000 and for international fees around RM48, 750/ USD16250. The entry requirement for local students to enter degree is pass in related foundation studies or pass in related Diploma from a recognized institution, with submission of portfolio on design, computer works and complete transcripts and resume (especially for those with working experience); for international students have to pass in Foundation in Creative Multimedia or pass in Diploma in design and computer related coursed, with submission of portfolio on design, computer works and complete transcripts and resume (especially for those with working experience), and fulfill MMU’s English requirement.
Besides that, Faculty of Creative Multimedia is then divided to five major courses for students to pursue and it consists of Animation and Visual Effects, Advertising Design, Media Arts, Virtual Reality and Interface Design as for the time being. One can take up Animation and Visual Effects if he is interested in film-making concepts with animation skills, 3D animation and video technology. Advertising Design, on the other hand, emphasizes the creation of advertising driven content through innovative multimedia applications. Students who take up Media Arts will be able to create information driven content in the digital technology realm. Virtual Reality is a study about the development process of communicating virtual reality applications, focusing on education and entertainment, using real-time computer graphics and immersive multimedia technologies. Last but not least, Interface Design provides an exploration, redefinition and investigation of the interaction and the interface between humans and the information and communication technologies.
Every semester or year, the Faculty of Creative will conduct showcases to present the artworks done by the students and even lecturer themselves, develop new artworks for the purpose of the showcases. Example of one of the showcases is Electronic Magazine (Entitle). The mission of this electronic magazine is to cover the latest news and events on art, design and multimedia. It also is an outlet for students to exchange opinions and share their artworks in this magazine. In order to publish this magazine, the students have been practiced to be in a team while improving the students’ working skills. Moreover, Entitle brings exposure to the faculty in a more active light. The contents of the magazine emphasized the ideas and suggestions instead of complaints from students. It also encourages the faculty students to be more involved and interactive because it provides the lecturers and students with a forum for cooperation. The magazine helps the students of Creative Multimedia as an ongoing resource about the latest news or students’ artworks.
Furthermore, it also speaks for all the students from the Faculty of Creative Multimedia and the main purpose of publishing this magazine is to promote the Faculty of Creative Multimedia and create awareness to more people about this faculty.
Just recently, about 3 weeks ago, an Alpha Week was held and was participated by Alpha year students (degree students as well) and lecturers. This event is not new. In fact, The Alpha Creative Term of Foundation Studies organizes this annually. What is Alpha Week? On that week, there will be an exhibition of Alpha Students’ Artwork: A Fundamental Journey which showcased a whole year worth of works done by students was showcased. Alpha Year students will be giving a basic understanding in concepts and courses which will be taught in the degree courses of Faculty of Creative Multimedia be it in Advertising Design, Media Arts, Animation Design, Interface Design or Virtual Reality.
Usually, the drawing workshop, for example, figure drawing that involved students from Alpha Foundation Studies will exhibit on that day. This drawing workshop led to the memorable Launch of the Alpha Week. Besides that, some of the students will perform for the audience during the launching of the event to show off their talents and to make the event a memorable and enjoyable one.
There are a lot of activities being carried out on the Alpha Week. Other than showcasing the students’ artworks, Alpha Creative Team also invited some professional photographers to give a talk about their experience on photo shooting and video recording, as well as to show us their past works. The purpose is for students to get to know more about this field as photography is really important for a Creative Multimedia student.
The Faculty of Creative Multimedia is able to brag amazing achievements by students and members who have received near to 100 recognitions in the form of awards and scholarships be it locally or internationally after a decade of planning, researching and developing.
The facilities provided in this faculty are Designing Studio, a workplace for students to enhance their creative thinking skills and to carry out design projects and assignments, Graphic Labs with high-resolution computer graphic images, thus installed with professional graphic and image editing software tools like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Macromedia Freehand and Macromedia Fireworks, Interactive Labs, where students create highly interactive multimedia applications for digital medium on fast and networked PCs equipped with classy industry standard authoring tools like Macromedia Director, Macromedia Authorware, Macromedia Flash and Macromedia Dreamweaver.
Furthermore, Set and Background Studio is provided with blue screen and motion capture facilities for a virtual studio set-up while Electronic Gallery is an exhibition centre where the conceptualized becomes a portal to the multimedia and digital world. It also showcases the best of student's work.
3D Labs such as Modeling Labs is where students create complex 3D objects using high-end computers and tools such as 3D Studio Max, AutoCAD, Maya and Softimage. Animation Labs on the other hand contains specialized facilities comprising of hardware and software intended for high-end 3D animation purposes. Lastly, Rapid Prototyping Lab consists of Computer Aided Design (CAD) facilities to produce prototype designs and mock-ups for interface design concepts while Post Production Labs consist of Video Labs and Audio Labs. Electronic Theatre or better known as E-Theatre is a cinematic hall equipped with audio and video facilities for screening and lecture purposes.
Other minor facilities that could be found in the building of the Faculty of Creative Multimedia are FCM café and MMU Knowledge Mart.
The University ensures that graduates of Creative Multimedia courses are in great demand with potential employers and take up important roles in the multimedia world. There are various job prospects that open to the graduates in different sorts of industries. Students who graduate from the degrees will have the opportunity as well as the proper knowledge and skills in the following career prospects, such as Multimedia Content Manager, Film Director, Animation Director, Animators, Advertising Consultant, Art Director, R&D Product Designer, Interface Designers, Instructional Designers, Multimedia Designers, Multimedia Trainers, Web Designers, Immersive Content Consultant, Simulation Designer, Graphic Designer, Entrepreneur / Cyberpreneur, Virtual Environment Designer.
Not to exaggerate but it indeed takes up courage for an individual to consider any of the Creative Multimedia courses to pursue especially for high school graduates. Creative Multimedia is an art and outsiders normally do not consider art as a stable career in reality but the truth is, based on the Dean of Faculty of Creative Multimedia, “the society is faced with increasing new forms of multimedia communication, both from the technological tools and the messages beamed to us each day via a saturated electronic environment. As the world shifts into the global digishpere, you as our students are faced with even bolder challenges to become future media creators.”
On top of that, Creative Multimedia is a not just about the technology. Creative Multimedia is all about creativity and imagination and it requires passion. Doing things you ought to do and doing things you want or like to do are two different things in this sense. You can’t be possibly doing things you ought to do instead of doing things you want to do for the rest of your life for the sake of income or more absurd, approval of family members. Quoting Walt Disney: Dream - Believe - Dare - Do, is Walt's mantra that led him to build what is now a creative empire without equal. DREAM beyond the boundaries of today; BELIEVE in sound values; DARE to make a difference; and then just go out and DO it.
Every normal individual has a dream and it’s just the matter of believing it or not. Take the first step, dare to be different. Have faith in yourself and just do it.
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One thing that makes the Faculty of Creative Multimedia different from other designing courses in other universities is that Multimedia University provides the best facilities and up-to-date multimedia equipment for the students. The building itself is decorated with fantastic artworks done by the students and the most impressive thing about this is that the artworks will be replaced by new artworks after a year, which means, the Faculty of Creative Multimedia produce excellent designers yearly.
Lastly, Interface Design course offered in Multimedia University is being offered as a course instead of a subject like how any other universities and that’s what make us different from others
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