Originality, imagination, inspiration, ingenuity, inventiveness, resourcefulness, creativeness, vision and innovation.
These are all words linked to creativity that we were given in the lesson to analyse and apply to our own work.
Applying 'creativity' to my AS coursework.
Originality - When producing all of my media work, I always had in mind to keep my ideas unique and origional. Although nothing can ever be completely original, I took ideas from various places and pieced them together with my own flare to create my final magazine cover, contents and DPS. I took inspiration from my chosen genre of music and used outside references although I feel that I tried to make my final layouts 'original' and memorable.
Inspiration - When researching for my AS coursework, I looked alot at different magazine layouts, magazines of my genre, star image, factories, locations, fashion magazine shoots etc. and I was very inspired by everything that I saw. Taking all of these images and websites I had researched previously, I took that inspiration and compiled all my faviourite ideas together in order to create something that was inspired and influenced by 'real world' situations.
Imagination - In order to produce my final coursework pieces I definetly needed imagination to envision what the overall look of the magazine would look like etc. A big use of imagination in my AS coursework was the fact that we had to create a fictional band and in doing so, I needed to use my imagination to create a fictional artist although some of it was based on truth. Imagination was used also when interviewing my artist on the DPS as well as styling and creating a 'star image'.
Applying 'creativity' to my A2 coursework.
Ingenuity - I feel that I have needed to be ingenious to apply my ideas and make them reality. I feel that I do this although maybe applying ingenuity throughout the process of creating something for example my digipack cover where I was unsure about how I could overlap the images of Rickie to begin with although I used my ingenuity and evenually figured out how to do it. I think I also used this creative skill when one of my origional band members decided she didn't want to go through with filming and I found a friend who suited the brief.
Resourcefulness - I had a big production idea for my A2 coursework and in preperation for this I knew that I needed to research alot into background knowledge of my referenced characters, Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgewick, as well as historical elemeents and styles that I would later apply to the mise en scene and styling of my band. I think that with research into locations and where I could film was an example of me being resourceful as I discovered a studio in Oadby where I paid and we filmed for two hours. Finding all the props and costumes could be another example of being resourceful as well as creating sets such as 'the factory' in my garage and 'edies dressing table' also in my house.
Innovation - Innovation was one of my chosen words in my 25 word pitch at the start of my A2 coursework year. I wanted to create something that would elevate from the norm and become fresh and innovative. I think that I achieved this through my A2 coursework with my use of innovative Photoshop effects aswell as the way that my idea to take inspiration from something old and make it young again was an innovative idea in itself.
Overall, how creative do you think you've been?
I believe that over both my AS and A2 years, I have continued to strive to be creative with everything I have priduced whether this be through the production of something or the research and planning that has gone into it before hand. I think that in media, I have been fascinated and obsessed with pushing the boundaries and trying out new ideas that sometimes don't work out but sometimes they do and when that happens, I have been very happy with the result. I am happy with what I have achieved and hope that I have consistently shown my passion for creativity in media.
Did you have any limitations?
In the first year, I don't feel like I did have any as I produced alot of my work at home due to the facilities and lack of computers at school however in my second year, I have been limited at home due to my editing software expiring and as a result have had to struggle to find a suitable computer to edit on.
I felt like my time was very limiting over this year as it was hard to get all three band members to be free to film on the same day, this was also limiting due to the weather and the lighting.
