Plagiarism Issues in Post-1998 Indonesian Film Posters

There are online articles, with visual materials, stating that some post-1998 Indonesian film posters were accused as plagiarism by common people. However, academically speaking, it needs deeper skills and knowledge to prove acts of plagiarism. This paper will discuss the issues around Indonesian film posters and plagiarism, including the possibility of citing in graphic design. The research will treat film posters not only as marketing tools to promote the movies, as many people consider, but also as graphic design materials. Some terms such as appropriation, homage, and pastiche will be discussed to analyze the phenomenon

Film sebagai Media Social Marketing: Yasmin Ahmad Berjualan Ide Multikulturalisme

Film is a message disseminating media and also mass communication tool. This statement sometimes appears when we are in film study. Film, and media in general, could be an effective propaganda. As a media, film could be used as a media to promote community awareness towards goodness issues. The question is how far we could consider film as one media to social marketing? The article discusses whether we could consider film as social marketing media. If it could be considered, what kind of films and how. Researcher took case study of Yasmin Ahmad's films, Malaysian's director, to analyze social marketing inside. All Yasmin's films that could be analyzed in this research consist of multiculturalism issue, covered by love story or family issues. Hopefully this article is becoming a beginning study so other researchers could analyze films and film-makers in Indonesia