I've been watching cartoons lately. As many cartoons as I can. From the old Disney, Japanese Anime, Spongebob Squarepants, Doraemon and Futurama. After a few series of these programmes, it got me thinking, "How the hell these people come up with such whacky yet attractive enough to watch?" Where are all these ideas comes from? What were they thinking when coming up with such ideas that proves to attract millions of viewers especially kids?
All these questions, I then refer back to our own products. Local stuffs. How come we still have a long way to go. Don't blame on the technology here. You don't need a superhigh technology to create an addictive cartoon like Doraemon. You don't even need what they have in Pixar, Disney or Dreamworks now to create Spongebob or even Powerpuff. Yet, we still left behind.
The more I think about it. I realise one thing. Most of our product lacks of imagination. We are creative in designs and artwork. I have no doubt about that but, somehow our imaginations and creativity on the content is weak. We didn't try to think from the view of the audience and how they would relate to the story, we merely taking a shortcut and instead, being the direct manipulating adult as we always been, forces those kids to accept what we have to offer using our perspectives.
It is time to come up with much better cartoons and kids programme locally isn't it? If we're seriously thinking about getting our content accepted internationally, I don't think just by being expert of the softwares and the tools are enough. It's like playing god, create humans but without soul. Isn't it?
Get more creative and imaginative people to work on it too. Without good content, all those excellent and superb multimedia skills of fellow Malaysians will only end up to waste and once again we succeed to prove that our local product sucks... which is not entirely true since we don't look into problems analytically and we don't solve these problems creatively.
I would like to suggest that once a while, we bring back the little kid spirit in us, watch those cartoon and try to see what they saw on those programmes that got their attention. Isn't it?
As John Lennon would say..
"you may say I'm a dreamer
but I'm not the only one"
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One more thing, here's another video. I know it's not new. Those of you who've been listening to Mix FM might be really tired of this song. (the effect of radio overplay) But, the song is nice. The lyric is great and seeing this video, it show's how the record label is having more faith on this band as the videos from the other 2 singles of Maroon 5.. is kinda getting low budget as they are still new at that time. Way to go Maroon 5.
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