19 Februari 2009

The Fourth Movie Project: Long Way to Perfection

The students have been working hard within these two long weeks. They should make the 5 minutes movie, using their own character, but referring to the real animation movies. They can take any kind of animation movie. So, they decided to use disney animation movies as their refference. At first, they are limited by one week project deadline, but when the time comes, they couldn't make it. So, we lengthen the time into two weeks, and we will hold the fifth movie screening on Saturday 21st of February 2009.
Let them work on this hard week, and let's wait for the result on the 5th movie screening later. Keep on fighting guys!!!!!\^O^/

Individual Skill Improvement

We've been burden by the think of how making these students improving themselves. And after lots of brain storming with all the crew, we came to the new thinking: the method to unconsciously force the student to improve their own skill. The problem is, sometimes the students seem to have nothing special within them, but we realized that they do have something! We only didn't see it on the first place. And finally, we make this risky step. We take some of the "nothing special" students and mixed them with the "trouble maker" students, and put them in one department called "Research and Development" Department. This department is created to see how the "nothing special" and "trouble maker" can resonate well to survive their own idealism and personality, and how they affect on each other.

The result is really surprising! The "nothing special" can come to the level of "having something special", and the "trouble maker" (not all of them) are moving toward "less trouble" with some special treatments. There are some "trouble maker" who still insist on their first place, but some of them show individual improvement. And we conclude that by taking the "nothing special" and "trouble maker" from the big crowd, we can make them grow their potentials into the higher level. Not only the skill, but also the way of thinking, organizing, team working, and so on.

Sometimes, the potential of a student is covered up by others who have higher potential. It's our duty to take them on the right place to let them attain their highest potential, so that their life would be meaningfull.

New Place

It's been a long time since we've continously written our story in this blog. Sometimes lately, we've been bussy on moving to the new place. We were arranged to dwell in a new place, somewhere uptown. This new building is not like our place before. It's big, quiet, and really feels like a real office. ^_^; And this building is called Teaching Factory.

Here is where we will build our dreams, not actually build, but continue to manifest it. The Republikans are walking towards the future of our dream. We are holding hands, make this place a real cozy place to work, not only for us, but also for all the visitors. They can see how we work, every step of it. They can also see the product we've produced all this time. Movie, merchandise, and so forth.

The Republikans were splitted into four studios: blue, red, yellow, and black. The black studio is producing the movie we've got from a client's order. So, they must do this work at school, because they need lots of attention and dirrection from the supervisors. The rest are working at teaching factory. We also create "Research and Development Department" consist of some members from all studios to help them doing research on creating, producing, marketing product,and so on. This R and D Department also has a resposiblity to measure their own member's work performance and think how to improve it.

So far, we've done things that we think it is necessary for the development and improvement of our students (or to be precisely, workers). And we still move the wheel forward, so that we can make another new better things. Well, wo knows where this animation things can bring us to???? \^o^/