Our creative journey has developed in the past two years, through our media productions. Starting with the childrens film opening our first product, enabled us to understand the software used to create the opening sequence. For example we understood and used the basic tools in Final cut Express, which was key in the editing stage of our product as it would let us create our ideas into a final product.
Monday, 23 May 2011
Our journey of creativity
Creating is "to create something by taking inspiration from your surroundings, your past experiences, your friends, and family and your emotions. Creative instincts and impulses play a large part in how creative and original you can be. Creativity is a means of outputting and representing yourself, especially if you find it difficult to communicate who you really are".
Our creativity has developed over the course due to the fact that at the beginning of the course we were encouraged to stick to true media conventions, however as the course has continued we have been able to come up with our own ideas, challenging these conventions. An example of this is the journey from the children's film through to the music video. The children's film had to be genre specific, whereas the music video could incorporate individual ideas that are true to genre, but may be different to the genre conventions of the video; e.g the hotdog amongst the dance video setting.
The Thriller project enabled us to decide what sort of thriller it would be, weather it would be a traditional thriller, or a thriller with a sub-genre; for example our thriller was a psychological thriller and so we were able to explore real media texts of this sub-genre "The Shining" to develop further the style of our piece.
Our creativity has developed over the course due to the fact that at the beginning of the course we were encouraged to stick to true media conventions, however as the course has continued we have been able to come up with our own ideas, challenging these conventions. An example of this is the journey from the children's film through to the music video. The children's film had to be genre specific, whereas the music video could incorporate individual ideas that are true to genre, but may be different to the genre conventions of the video; e.g the hotdog amongst the dance video setting.
The Thriller project enabled us to decide what sort of thriller it would be, weather it would be a traditional thriller, or a thriller with a sub-genre; for example our thriller was a psychological thriller and so we were able to explore real media texts of this sub-genre "The Shining" to develop further the style of our piece.
My Creative Journey
My creative journey has been pretty much the same for each project i have completed, i have used the internet to find out what conventions are in each genre for the specific genre and used this to create a conventional piece of work. I have also used the internet to watch relevant pieces of footage of films that would relate to the project and help me be creative. In class we have also watched films that relate to projects and gained knowledge and inspiration from them to allow me to be creative and conventional at the same time.
my own creative journey.
Since I started the Media course I have come a long way on my creative journey. When I tried my first creative piece of coursework I had no idea how much hard work it would be. Now i have finished i realise how i could've improved things i've done and how they could've been more creative and imaginative. My first piece of coursework differs hugely from my last piece of coursework. At the end of the course i had learnt how to use Photoshop and Final cut properly and my researching techniques had improved. The project appeared very professional and I spent a lot of time editing the footage and making sure that the image was in sync with the music and rhythm. In terms of being creative my skills have improved a lot over the two years.
Write 250 words on your own creative journey
My journey over the two year course for media has taken my ability to be creative and turned it into a skill which i have largly benefited from. Starting in 2009 my boundaries of imagionation and creativity were not defined and I had no idea of how to use these skills in an efficient and meaningful way. Firstly it shows over the two years how my creativity has grow by learning to using it in research of other media products, for example with the use of the internet and other media conventions my creavivity has enabled me not only take conventions from media products liek I would have done in 2009 but to take and to change and develop them to what fits my product or my idea. This is seen in our first childs opening which only touches on simple and obvious conventions like smooth narrative whereas with our thriller opening in 2010 we took the convention of dark and quick cuts and added a little creativity by changing it from making the shot naturally dark to taking a shot in the sun/day light and adding through editing a dark filter. Another way in which my creative journey has taken a turn in the two year course is through evaluation as with the thriller project we had to produce a simple evaluation on all areas to do with the project, which changes as with the music video we were allowed to make a filmed evalution and by research we learned that the standard proceeder was to just talk to the camera and pull up quick still shots of our production. So we decided to chnge this by adding some imagionation and creativity as we wanted our evalution to get the examiner interested, so we made it into a interview setting which made the interviewer feel more at ease and made the responses personal and in depth. We also added vioce overs when stills were being shown which suggests we wanted to really evaluate our peice as we could use the picture on screen and the voiceover the really get the examiner interested in our work.
Thursday, 19 May 2011
Digital Technologies
To what extent have digital technologies helped develop your research and planning skills over the 2 years?
Digital technologies have helped over the last two years in a big way, due to being able to access the internet for almost anything and find information on it, also things like final cut and Garageband have also helped for organising bits of work.
The internet has helped because things like "Blogger" helped me to organise work and get the planning done in an orderly way rather than having pieces of paper all over the place and not being able to find what I need when needed. An example of this could be the storyboard being put onto my blogger page rather than being left on a bit of paper and getting lost. This helped my planning skills because it helped me organise everything I researched and put it into a order that was easy to use.
The internet in general helped because if you search a specific area like song lyrics for my music video numerous pages appear that have them on. This developed my skills because without the internet the lyrics would be hard to find and would be done poorly rather than a higher standard.
Final cut has helped me to organise footage into specific sections rather than leaving it all jumbled up and in a mess. It also allowed me to plan if I was missing a certain piece of footage to go out and shoot the bit that I needed.
The internet has helped because things like "Blogger" helped me to organise work and get the planning done in an orderly way rather than having pieces of paper all over the place and not being able to find what I need when needed. An example of this could be the storyboard being put onto my blogger page rather than being left on a bit of paper and getting lost. This helped my planning skills because it helped me organise everything I researched and put it into a order that was easy to use.
The internet in general helped because if you search a specific area like song lyrics for my music video numerous pages appear that have them on. This developed my skills because without the internet the lyrics would be hard to find and would be done poorly rather than a higher standard.
Final cut has helped me to organise footage into specific sections rather than leaving it all jumbled up and in a mess. It also allowed me to plan if I was missing a certain piece of footage to go out and shoot the bit that I needed.
To what extent have digital technologies helped develop your reasearch and planning skills over the past two years
digital technologies have been a massive part of my development over the past two years in several ways.
firstly, sites like blogger have allowed me to greatly develop my planning and researching skills individually and within a group as this has been a massive part within all of the media projects i have worked on. the planning and researching aspect of the project was greatly enhanced by the fact that the internet was so easily accesable and we were therefore able to look in to other existing works ranging from proffesional to ameture. it was also a great help in allowing us to digitally note our thoughts and processes. the blogs hae also been massivly usefull in allowing me to review and evaluate my own work which i can then learn from and change or develop in my next production which has been a massive part of my development within my digital works.
As well as blogger, Youtube has played a massive part in my planning and research skills as with it i was able to view other works and review them. from this i was then able to take references from as well as developing my own ideas from them. it has also allowed for me to be greatly influenced by previous professional productions as well as past students work. i have been able to see things which i can then choose to encorporate into my own work or see something and decide how i would've done things differntly and then being able to look at my own work in the same critical fashion to make my own works better.
Digital technology was also a massive part in the actual production of our products as with out the use of the cameras available to us we would not be able to create our productions at all. This use of cameras has also greatly developed my skills and understanding of filming in general. throughout all off my production it is very clear to see a great development in camera work, filming style and general filming skills. all the productions also allowed me to be as creative and experimental as i wanted and therefore allowed me to develop my skills in this way to.
it is also very easy to see a great improvement in my editing skills when looking over all of our past productions. with the use of Final Cut Express, i have been able to practice and very quickly learn more and more about different editing styles and techniques which i have then used within our projects. the last one in particular (our music video) allowed me to really experiment and then develop my editing skills and allowed for the use of different filters, cutting effects and general effects to their full potential. most of my learning on editing has been done through trial and error and giving me more than enough time to look and experiment with any effect that i might then want to use which has been a very useful learning technique for me in particular.
firstly, sites like blogger have allowed me to greatly develop my planning and researching skills individually and within a group as this has been a massive part within all of the media projects i have worked on. the planning and researching aspect of the project was greatly enhanced by the fact that the internet was so easily accesable and we were therefore able to look in to other existing works ranging from proffesional to ameture. it was also a great help in allowing us to digitally note our thoughts and processes. the blogs hae also been massivly usefull in allowing me to review and evaluate my own work which i can then learn from and change or develop in my next production which has been a massive part of my development within my digital works.
As well as blogger, Youtube has played a massive part in my planning and research skills as with it i was able to view other works and review them. from this i was then able to take references from as well as developing my own ideas from them. it has also allowed for me to be greatly influenced by previous professional productions as well as past students work. i have been able to see things which i can then choose to encorporate into my own work or see something and decide how i would've done things differntly and then being able to look at my own work in the same critical fashion to make my own works better.
Digital technology was also a massive part in the actual production of our products as with out the use of the cameras available to us we would not be able to create our productions at all. This use of cameras has also greatly developed my skills and understanding of filming in general. throughout all off my production it is very clear to see a great development in camera work, filming style and general filming skills. all the productions also allowed me to be as creative and experimental as i wanted and therefore allowed me to develop my skills in this way to.
it is also very easy to see a great improvement in my editing skills when looking over all of our past productions. with the use of Final Cut Express, i have been able to practice and very quickly learn more and more about different editing styles and techniques which i have then used within our projects. the last one in particular (our music video) allowed me to really experiment and then develop my editing skills and allowed for the use of different filters, cutting effects and general effects to their full potential. most of my learning on editing has been done through trial and error and giving me more than enough time to look and experiment with any effect that i might then want to use which has been a very useful learning technique for me in particular.
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