post 2; creativity

In order to create a short film, it is essential that we are creative to achieve a film of the highest possible standards, so what does being creative actually mean?


THE BORING PEN JUMPED OVER THE AMAZING FLOWER..

The game of consequences was introduced to us by our teacher, in which we had to get into groups and each person write a adjective, a noun and a verb, which would be folded over so we could not see what each person had wrote. Once we had unfolded the paper our sentence read out "The boring pen jumped over the amazing flower". Our teacher then told us we had to produce the picture which would illustrate the sentence.
I think that my picture did not show very much creativity as it was quickly put together in a short amount of time. It was hard to produce something that did not make sense in which we would all need to think of how we were going to put together a confusing picture. The picture that i had created does not look perfect and as we had to produce it in such a short amount of time it was hard to quickly put things together, and we needed to be imaginative to help us create this picture.
I think that we have been creative in the sense that we thought and created a sentence and then actually produced the picture of it, which is creativity.

Our next task was for us to produce a short 1 minute video of a pen. All our teacher said to us was here is a pen, go and do something creative with it. We were all shocked at what we had to do, but in the end we decided to create the video with the pen moving around the school, with different pupils having access to it. We were also told that everything that needed editing, had to be edited in camera, which also made it harder to come up with an idea. I think that we was not creative enough in the sense that we only had 20 minutes to film and come up with an idea, and i feel that our storyline was very basic, and simple which could have been improved. However, i feel that we were creative coming up with different locations for the pen, and the different people that were involved with interacting with the pen.

Below is the video we created

INDEPENDENT STUDY..


For our in dependant study, we was asked to do something creative and post evidence of it on our blog. Everyone was confused by the idea, and did not have a clue what to do. After a week of thinking about what i could do, i decided to put together a small picture which would show nature.

I think i have been creative in the sense that i went outside gather leaves, sticks, grass and flowers in order to create an image of the outdoors (Garden). I decided to do this piece as i love the outdoors and thought it would be creative for me to create an image of a Garden, and use materials that can be found in the garden. I used a yellow daffodil as the sun, and leaves and sticks for the trees, and put it together to create an image of a Garden.

Definitions..
Creativity is being able to think logically, then put your thinking into practice by producing the item.
"Creativity is the ability to generate innovate and manifest them from thought into reality. It is the process from original thinking to producing "-definitions from wikipedia
-I agree with this post as creativity comes with being able to thing logically and then putting your thoughts into practice by producing the work.
"Creativity involves 2 processes, thinking then producing. It requires passion and commitment"-definitions by Linda Naiman
-i also agree with this statement in the sense that in order to be creative and achieve a good project you need to be committed or you will not succeed. For example: In our practical opening sequence for AS we had to be committed as if we were not the project would not have got finished. We had to put in a huge amount of independent study, which requires commitment.
"making something might be a creative act, it is reserved for those who are highly skilled and or original"-definitions by Pete's media blog
-I agree with this statement, however being original will effect the quality of your production work. If you were to create originality it would be hard, as there are certain rules and conventions to convey when producing.


There are certain debates surrounding creativity and originality. The tasks i have completed above were designed to have no structure or specific rules. This effected my creativity, as having no rules made it harder to think and come up with idea's. We had to use our imagination more which increased our creativity.