Post 2: Creativity

What is Creativity?

Creativity allows room for freedom in thought.   Being creative through work reflects an individual, unique focus point.  Creativity is needed in order for products to be different from one and another, for example, unique story lines are needed in soap operas in order for them to be different and exciting, which would more likely engage viewers than if they all followed the same route.

Consequences

Following several games of ‘Consequences’, our class was presented with a large variation of stories; we played two different ways of playing the game and one was to follow this method:

·         On a piece of paper, one person from a group of five writes down ‘The’, followed by an adjective of their choice.  That person the folds the paper over so that the other contributors cannot see, and passes to the next person.

·         The next person then writes down a noun of their choice, folds over and passes on.

·         The third then writes a verb, folds over and passes on.

·         And the fifth writes another noun.

·         The paper then goes back to the first person who unfolds it to reveal the full one sentence.

Outcomes of the game included- ‘The hairy rock booty shakes the dark nostril’, ‘The concerned platypus paints very messy the crazily fence’. I tried to make a illistration of the sentances on paint:

The hairy rock booty shakes the dark nostril’

‘The concerned platypus paints very messy the crazily fence’

As you can see, the outcomes of this game were very original and not likely to of been thought of singly without the game.  Advantages of this particular method meant that the class was presented with unique sentences which could lead to potential storylines and scripts.  Disadvantages were that the majority of the sentence’s did not make sense and were difficult to understand

Another form of being creative was introduced through the game me and three other friends played to produce an individual character.  The game worked as follows:

• A piece of paper was given to one participant of the group, a head of a character was drawn, then folded down.  The piece of paper was then passed onto the next person.
• The next person, unaware of the head previously drawn and the gender, they then drew on a adjoining body and legs, folded over and passed to the next person.
• The next then drew the legs of the character, folded over and passed on.
• Finally the last participant of the game choose a name at random for the character, before opening up and viewing the intresting drawing.

Below is scanned in examples of what different versionsn of the game produced;

Pen video

Post 1: Describe why we need to define the word 'Skills'

Definition of 'Skills'

The term ‘skills’ is used to describe ones ability, along with the knowledge and craftsmanship that they entail.  Particular jobs require specific skills of their employees in order for them to adapt to the situation and be able to complete the task.  For example: Carpentry was one of his many skills.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/skill 

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/skill

I used these links to help me to understand the term.

To realize individual’s particular skills is key in the process of pre production as role allocations can be accordantly made.  Recognizing your own strengths is important as you are then able to apply them through your work and consequently, succeed in completing the tasks well.  For example, while working in a group for the production of our film, if one particular group member is a good cameraman and another is a drama student, the best choice would be for those group members to use their skills to work as particular roles in the group.