The key to making animated bumper videos is skillfully combining a variety of simple ornaments and work tools. Creativity and being diligent in looking at other animation references are also important.

That was suggested by Dwi Agus and Mudrik Slamet, two instructors at the Motion Graphic Workshop for UII Communication staff on Tuesday (16 February 2021).

This workshop, which is conducted with strict health protocols, is to hone the technical skills of staff to use various design applications with simple ornaments and features. “We are trying to design a video bumper by combining CorelDraw, Photoshop, and after effects applications,” said Dwi Agus, this Photoshop and CorelDraw specialist instructor. Dwi Agus has received many prestigious awards in film competitions. For example, he once won the # 1 Disability Film Festival film competition which specifically raised the issue of diffable advocacy.

Iskandar T. Gunawan, an expert filmmaker who is also a staff of the UII Communication Laboratory, added that the training which was held for two days was a routine activity of the study program. “The goal is to increase staff capacity. Especially because staff can use this expertise for their daily work as an editor for Uniicoms TV and content creators on department’s social media publication pages,” said Iskandar. The main focus of this training is on multimedia editing.

The key to creating animated bumper videos is skillfully combining a variety of simple ornaments and work tools. Creativity and being diligent in looking at other animation references are also important.

This training runs for two days from 16-17 February 2021. This motion graphics and video editing workshop produces various video bumpers for events on the Uniicoms TV channel. A bumper is an explanatory animation commonly used for the opening or closing of a video or film.

According to Dwi Agus, the steps needed are to collect materials. “Starting with where to look for the photos, which typography, broadcast time, what elements we need to use. They are collected in one folder so that it is easy to organize and use in design software,” Dwi said.

“For typography and the particles use Corel. Meanwhile, photo editing uses Photoshop. Then, together with Mudrik, an animation specialist, we put the materials that have been designed in Corel and Photoshop we put them in Adobe After Effects,” Dwi added.

“Only then will we move the elements and design elements with the animated features provided by Adobe After Effects,” said Mudrik, another instructor.

Zarkoni, one of the staff, said that uniicoms TV staff and crew are more capable of using Adobe Premiere. Meanwhile, animation making has not been thoroughly studied. So this training found its urgency in order to improve skills as well as the quality of content on the Uniicoms TV channel, as UII Communications’ Online TV and the first at UII.

Seminar Proposal is one of the main courses run by Communication Science students in the 6th semester. This course requires students to make proposals containing about chapter 1 as a part of the research for their undergraduate thesis. Then, students will present the results of their research at the end of the class, the 14th meeting.

Seminar Day was held on Tuesday (2/2) from 09.30 am to 11.30 am. Attended by more than 160 Communication Science students and held in Zoom Meeting Application. This event was hosted by Narayana Mahendra Prasetya, S.Sos., M.A. and Ida Nuraini Dewi Kodrat Ningsih, S.I.Kom., M.A.

“Seminar Day aims to help students of the 2018 class prepare their research. The lecturers will explain step by step how students submit the theme to be researched for their thesis,” Ida said.

Puji Hariyanti, also a lecturer who guides students in determining research, said that Seminar Proposal is not something scary, and can always be done. She also said that students should look for as much data as possible before discussing with their respective lecturers.

Students can choose which lecturers guide their proposals. They should look for issues related to their preferences, discuss with lecturers, then formulate ideas. The submitted outline contains the background of why it is important to research, research purposes, determine the theory to be used, and research methods.

First Experience for IP Students

According to International Program of Communication/ IPC 2018 students, Sheila Jasmine,  Seminar Day is very helpful for them in determining their research. IPC 2018 students are greatly helped by the answers of lecturers who tell them what they need to do to make research. Before attending the Seminar Day, they did not know what to do for their research.

“After joining the Seminar Day, it turns out that the lecturer calmed us not to be burdened, by telling us what steps we should take,” said Sheila, a student of IPC 2018.

Sheila also said that with Seminar Day, she has a lot of considerations to make research.

Just like Nadira Muthia, a student of IPC 2018, she felt helped by Mr. Nara’s explanation. Nadira also has a lot of pictures for her research because the lecturers are very open to discussion.

“The lecturers are also active in Q&A, so I feel helped by their answers, and the questions asked by friends are also very helpful,” Nadira said on Wednesday (3/2).

Author and Reporter: Sera Zahria, Internship Student of Communication Department of UII, at International Program of Communication Department, Student Batch 2016

Editor: A. Pambudi W.

Recently, there has been criticism on the study of Islamic communication. Islamic communication is considered stagnant. How come. So far, the study of Islamic communication has not moved on to discussing the principles of communication in the Koran. Like qaulan syadiidan and baliigha. In fact, the communication dimension in the Quran is more than that.

Holy Rafika Dhona, Communication Lecturer at UII, said this in an online review of his book entitled Prophetic Communication, ‘Islamic Prophetic Perspectives’ in Communication on Sunday (17/1) online. The KBM Alumni Forum (Cultural and Media Studies) dissected Holy Rafika’s book by inviting two dissectors. First, Fita Fathurokhmah, Lecturer in Communication and Islamic Broadcasting from UIN Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta. Second, M. Heychael, Lecturer in Communication at Multimedia Nusantara University.

“Islamic communication stagnates, only to recognize whether this is in qoulan balighan, qaulan syadiidan, etc. But, when there is mustad’afin, why is it not discussed?” said Holy Rafika, author of the book published at the end of 2020. According to Holy, the book, published by UII Press, tries to push the idea of ​​Islam that gives mercy to the universe even for those who are oppressed.

Holy emphasized the assumption, “There are people who are oppressed, you know. How can you just leave it. Islam is not what it should be. Islam discusses the principle of justice,” Holy continued.

What is the relationship between justice and the oppressed in Prophetic Communication? According to Holy, seeing the phenomenon of oppression with the value of justice is very easy. Holy emphasized that from an Islamic perspective. Islam has the concept that people who are oppressed indicate that they do not get justice. According to him, Islam exists to defend the weak so that justice can be upheld. “People who are oppressed are people who do not get justice. So Islam is here to defend those who are weak, in order to get justice,” Holy explained.

Fita Fathurokhmah, on the other hand, gave notes on the publication of this book. He gave input so that this book should be prepared more practically so that “My input, Mas Holy, can write the next book more on praxis. This will sell for sure. How is Prophetic Communication from the intrappersonal level, from the interpersonal level, groups, masses, the public, to the level of media and organizations, “suggested Fita.

In addition, Fita also criticized why this book did not discuss the conceptualization of her knowledge building about what epistemology is, what axiology, and what is epistemology.

Holy points out that the issue of conceptualization of knowledge has been discussed by previous authors, for example Prof. Iswandi and Heddy Ahimsa. Prof. Heddy Shri Ahimsa and Iswandi Syahputra have written their emphasis on the conceptualization of knowledge and others. There are talks about ontology, axiology, and prophetic epistemology. “If Prof Iswandi and Ahimsa it mustad’afin (defending the weak)–is missing,” he said. Here Holy wants to complete the study of rhophetic communication from a perspective that has been lacking so far, he patched another section.

“If you look at Pak Ahimsa’s version, there will be a debate about knowledge or not. But, in my opinion, knowledge must be rahmatan lil alamin,” he added.