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.