Creativity

Sir ken Robinson expresses his attitude toward creativity and gives us his opinion on how creativity is formed.

He says that young children will take a chance and if they 'don't know, they'll give it a go' and they are not 'frightened to be wrong' and essentially be imaginative with what they do or say if they have miss-understood it, I do agree with this to an extent, I believe that children under a certain age haven't had enough life experience or influence to be swayed by a concept, but I also think that they copy things, such as older brothers and sisters, they will copy their movements or behaviours because they are their main 'influence' or role model. As for students in education, we are much more aware of everything around us, and are more likely to branch from one base inspiration that has been seen/found/heard/touched/tasted in our lives. And we are more likely to aspire to create a different version of that idea or better it. I think we are definitely prone to be more afraid of being wrong because through education we are pretty much shown how to do everything in one way or another, and we initially think that that must be 'the right way' because we are being told, we are afraid of pushing boundaries or stepping outside the box because it is such a rarity.

My creativity:-

To begin with my initial ideas for the digipak stemmed from our research for our mood-board, where we found an abstract image of lighting and then also video test-shoot, and the streams of light that the cars were creating as we photographed. I moved on to think about different lighting such as natural lighting or street-lighting/car headlights or fire.

This made me want to experiment with light streams and continuous image across each side of my digipak, and deciding on colours and imagery to create a house theme like these :-

I then did a small test-shoot with fire to see how easy it was to photograph and capture:-

I found that I simply needed to adjust the shutter speed and aperture when photographing fire to get the desired effect.

This week I also used programs called Adobe flash and Premier Pro to try out a different way to storyboard. I first drew a small animation on adobe flash the outputted it do premier pro to create the small video and allow me to edit it