Creative Writing Workshop at IACT College

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On the 22^nd June 2013, IACT College had a workshop known as Creative Writing Workshop; a few secondary students around KL and PJ (Okay, everywhere in Selangor/KL side to be specific), and not to forget, a few Nuffnang bloggers attended to this event as well.

 

In case you are wondering what’s IACT College specialize in:-

“IACT College, Malaysia’s only communication college founded and owned by the creative industry recently hosted a Creative Writing Workshop within its campus in Jaya One, Petaling Jaya.“

ANDDDDD, in case you are wondering why IACT College eventually came up with this workshop at this period of time simply because creative writing workshop is the first amongst a series of workshops designed to introduce students to the careers within the creative communication industry. Upcoming workshops will introduce Audio Recording, Photography, Digital Design, Marketing and Videography. These workshops aim to give participants interested in creative communications a taste of their future careers. With industry professionals leading classes in settings that mirror real-life working conditions, IACT College students are trained by experienced lecturers to be job ready with hands-on learning giving IACT graduates an advantage over their competitors.

Got the click? ANYWAYS, I shall continue with where I was.. *pause for a moment* Oh yes, the workshop!

The workshop started off with registrations for the students and bloggers whom attended to the workshop as they registered themselves while filling up the questionnaire the workshop provided (getting to know your interest plus describing yourself in a creative way)

Estimating around 9:45am, the event started off with a quick brief and a welcoming session with the Marketing Department, Mark Grunden (scroll down in case you’re wondering who is this awesome man with a fantastic name). Just another short yet sweet speech, he engaged with the audience more towards IACT College. After handing to the Marketing Department, Mr Evengel Loges take over the crowd (he was the MC throughout the entire talk and while waiting for the event to start before that, he entertained the crowd (the students) to not make the entire event dead. (Just kidding about the dead part, he makes the event livelier in a way). Moving on, the creative writing was conducted by Mr. Nicholas Lee, Academic Director of IACT College, the workshop aimed to introduce participants to creative writing with a focus on fiction, started off with a simple yet out of ordinary ice breaker where the newcomers step out and introduce themselves as an object, or an item, symbol, things that represent them. They were given about 3-5 minutes to come up with something that symbolizes/something that describes them creatively. However, many of them came up with brilliant ideas and unique things/element that describe them perfectly. (Well, as you know in the morning, they seemed a little bit tired but after a while, they were alright, time to crack-up sleepy brains in the morning. WOOOHOOO! \ ^_^ / )

 

 Marketing Manager Department, Mark Grunden.

 A student describing herself in front of the crowd along with Mr. Nicholas Lee on the right.

 

 

Quoted by Mr. Nicholas Lee while he was giving his speech to the audience, “Writers who are just starting out often show rather than tell. Good pieces of fiction do not just inform; they engage. Great stories move you, they challenge your thoughts. Today we started a journey and I hope to read some great stories in the coming months” said Nicholas, who also heads the English Department at IACT College. It shows how experience he is when it comes to Creative Writing, thinking out of the box and something extraordinary about him makes him come out with such inspiring words that motivates the audience to strive for the better, and improving themselves to be better as what I observed. They are so determined and focus onto this workshop which is really an advantage for them to succeed eventhough how weak they are but still want to achieve something. "There's always room for improvement."

Right after the short introduction, Mr. Nicholas Lee moved on and explained more towards the insight of character, plot, setting, conflict and a theme when it comes to a short story.

 

Mr. Nicholas Lee explained how to make it real as students tend to think creativity and seeing things differently. "You need these two elements such as details and imperfection in order to make it real."

Mr. Nicholas Lee showed a few entertaining, short films such as Monster INC and the black and white ad (about a guy wanting to send something to the girl on the opposite block, sweet isn't it?) while the last activity of the workshop was going on.

Right after every activities has ended, Mr Loges showed a preview of Oppa IACT Style. Here's a preview of the video in case you haven't seen it yet:-

After screening the IACT Style video, student ambassadors gave them (secondary students and bloggers) a short tour around IACT College such as the broadcasting room, recording studio and the library.

After the short tour, they were given McDonalds' as their lunch, group pictures taken place in the end of the event and gave out goodie bags to the participants.

However, here are a few pictures taken on the event itself. Picture speaks louder than words. In case you don't like to read, pictures give you a clearer understanding from top to bottom. *grins*

In case you are wondering what are these drawings for, it's putting words into pictures such as imaging the scenario taken place while reading the paragraph each student came up with a short paragraph and describing how the character looks like. That's how movies came about and books are just so informative that it describes a person really well.

Five interesting lines given as an example.

A few bloggers decided to pose in front of the green screen background.

 What's in the bag? o________o

 Last but not least:-

A group picture!

More pictures can be found by clicking HERE.

IN CASE YOU ARE WONDERING WHAT'S IACT COLLEGE? HERE'S A SHORT BRIEF ABOUT IACT COLLEGE

"IACT College is the Creative Communication Specialist, and a Malaysian pioneer in Project-Based Learning pedagogy, where students are involved in real-life industry projects right from when their courses commence. Founded and endorsed by industrial professionals, IACT College endeavours to teach its students to think out of the box in order to produce high-quality, creative and practical ideas to meet industrial needs."

For more information on IACT College, please log on to www.iact.edu.my or search them on Facebook / Twitter / YouTube / Pinterest / Instagram @IACTCollege.