Creativity

What is Creativity?

Originality, imagination, inspiration, ingenuity, inventiveness, resourcefulness, creativeness, vision and innovation.

How did you apply some of these to both your AS and A2 Coursework?

AS Magazine

Originality- My AS Magazine wasn't a carbon copy of another magazine, i took inspiration from other magazines, mainly womens fashion magazines to look at content and cover poses to re-invent and use on and in my magazine. Used my own idea for the title (Compilation), the temaplates for all of the pages, images, fonts, layout of the page etc. I came up with the name Compilation  becase i didn't want my magazine to focus on just one genre of music as i couldn't decide just one to focus on.

Inspiration- I took inspiration from women's fashion magazines which shared the same target audience as my magazine, i looked at different poses, fonts, layouts, costume, make-up to gain inspiration to use on my cover, contents page and double page spread.

Imagination- I used imagination to think about how i wanted my magazine to look, and how i thought it was going to look once i'd created it.

A2 Music Video

Originality- using our own ideas to create a music video from scratch, we had the freedom to basically do whatever we wanted to.

In terms of levels of creativity within my AS and A2 coursework products, i feel i sustained a good level of creativity with what i produced in AS, and what both me and Emma created in A2. We were allowed to do pretty much what we wanted in both products which allowed me to be as creative as possible, the only aspect which we couldn't stray from was the fact we weren't allowed to do anything other than a music magazine, and a music video, luckily the genre and all the other attributes involved were down to us, and gave us the oppurtunity to do whatever we liked within reason. The only boundaries were the fact it had to be a music video in A2 and either an opening to a film or a music magazine in AS, which didn't really prevent me from being that creative as research and planning helped me with inspiration and helped me to create ideas which i thought would be quite 'unique'. I feel the set menu of tasks made it much easier as it already gives you something to work with and research, the many thousands of music magazines, videos and genres round, it definately helped me because i knew i had a rough guideline to stick to. I personally wouldn't have preferred a free choice as i think it doesn't always go as well as planned, trying to find people to be in your video/magazine is hard enough if you don't think you know the person to fit the bill, so having to think of soething completely original off your own back seems like a much harder task than being given very loose guidelines.