Creativity

Task 1
Taking each of these words in turn, apply them to the pieces of coursework you have created at AS and A2;

• Originality: For our A2 project, creating a music video, we were original in a way that we didnt follow the conventional way that the majority of people seemed to go about this. We followed an unconventional style performed by Nickelback with his Rockstar video, for our Dancing In The Moonlight (Toploader) video.
• Imagination: When you watch our Dancing In The Moonlight video, you cant see much evidence of imagination. However I feel that our imagination came from the type of video we wanted to produce. For example we diverted away from the typical video everyone else seemed to want to produce.
• Inspiration: During the planning and research part of our A2 project for our music video, we sought inspiration from many different avenues about how to go about our video. After watching many videos, we drew our inspiration from Nickelback's Rockstar video (Shown below).

• Ingenuity:
• Inventiveness: Inventiveness was probably an element which predominantly came in during the AS project of creating a magazine (cover, contents & double page spread). This is because it took a creative skill to get the right pictures for your magazine using the limited resources abailable to us.
• Resourcefulness: This element was about using the resources available to us effectively. This meant planning our projects well, and how we would go about using the equipment available to us. I.e. producing a shot list for our music video.

How creative do you think you've been?
Overall, I have seen an improvement from my AS & A2 projects as to how much I have expressed my creativity. At the start of AS my thoughts were that I didn't have much of a creative skill, however looking back, I now see that as more a reluctance on my part as a fear of thinking what I produce would be 'rubbish'. The media course has taught me that the work you produce may not be as good as another person's, however if you have used your resources effectively, and have justified the way in which you have worked, then your work can be as creative as the next person.

What has prevented you from being more creative?
Looking back at my AS project, I feel that it was probably my reluctance as explained in the previous question. However especially for the A2 project, it is defiantly the financial restraints which prevents any project from being more creative.

Has a set menu of tasks made it easier to be creative or would you have preferred a free choice on what you could make? Were you pinned down too much by the task, or did it free you up to be creative withinthe boundaries of the task?
I wholeheartedly feel that having the set tasks for both AS & A2 project has made the process a whole deal easier. This is because if you had to chose from the many tasks available, then you would waste many lessons/days on deciding what option may be best suited to you. So having the set choice takes that element away, and effectively says you WILL create a music video, which also is possibly the best option suited to our school with its resources available.