Students’ Creative e-Portfolios: Using Android Cell Phone Cameras for Inventive Beauty Photography

Abstract

In the 21 st century, knowledge society, creativity and innovation in the educational context are becoming increasingly important, especially for the ASEAN Vocational Education and Training (VET) community. Creative portfolio is one way in which this creativity can be captured. Creative portfolios often consist of elements from the field of home economics, including fashion, culinary science, and beauty. These elements require students to think creatively for instance by the use of their cell phone as a camera. Though they have never considered using their cell phone in this way, such projects can be very valuable for students' learning. This research explores the use of camera features on the cell phone to capture subjects in the creation of Javanese traditional wedding make up using the traditional costumes of each area and to document them using a cell phone with video camera features. These videos were then edited using Adobe Premiere and they can be viewed as pdf files. Findings of this research suggested that the students were eager to have creative video portfolios using many different techniques. Out of this project, the mini Glidecam was implemented to stabilize the video to eliminate shaking when still recording. This research therefore contributed to broaden creative video portfolio techniques and it will help people who are interested in developing a creative video portfolio in simple yet professional ways.