Creativity Questions

- What do you understand by ‘creativity’ and to what extent have you been creative?

Creativity, in my opinion, comes from the persons' own imagination. I have been creative in my inidividual work from AS as well as in my group during A2 as I have looked at existing products (magazines, ancillary products, and music videos)

- How have you tried to facilitate and encourage your own creativity?

Over the 2 years my progress in Media has improved; however I feel I worked better at A2 as I had my group at hand to judge my thoughts on the video, as well as designs for ancillary products. At AS I did not feel as though I had many peers to ask to judge my work.

- Did you experience limits/blocks on your own creativity?

When designing my AS magazine I discovered limits and in the end I changed my original idea completely; I regretted this soon after as I am now going to resubmit my AS coursework with another new idea.

- How easy/difficult was it to be creative while still working to the brief?

Sticking to the brief was not a problem for our music video project as we created a typical indie/alternative genre video which is exactly what we planned and was included within the brief.

- Did working within conventions stifle your creativity?

We were given a rough outline of the type of products we were asked to create during both AS and A2 however we definitely had more freedom at A2. The guideline for AS showed a specific style of magazine, which pages to include and roughly how to structure them; whereas at A2 we were given guidelines of '3 minute music video' and that was pretty much it.

- To what extent did you need to work with others and ‘bounce ideas’ off other people to be truly creative?

During the A2 project we all used eachothers ideas to build on our own, resulting in all of the final ideas. We all had a say in each idea and were able to give constructive criticism to each other or even abolish others' ideas entirely.

- How much of your creativity was about trying to picture things in your mind’s eye?

I find it easy to picture end products in my mind so I used this a lot, for example during our A2 music video project I would evaluate the shot on the camera and weigh up the pros and cons of filming the shot. The four of us tried our best to use our time well however it did take a matter of days to complete filming at both main locations, the barn, and Harry's house.

- How much of your creativity was about trial and error?

During AS magazine and my ancillary products I discarded previous ideas and created new designs for my final submission. However for our A2 music video project we never had errors, only trials that we pushed aside and replaced with something easier or less time consuming.

- To what extent was a lack of confidence an issue in terms of your creativity?

I think we all had enough confidence to speak out to each other during our A2 project so we were all happy that we all had ideas that made it to the final cut of our video. We all felt comfortable enough to judge each others ideas and criticise or congratulate creation ideas.

- To what extent was a lack of technical competence/confidence an obstacle to your creativity?


In my AS coursework my confidence lacked towards the end of the course, I felt as though I was going to be unable to produce the same type of magazine I had been planning from the start. As a result of my doubt, I achieved only a D grade in my coursework, which I deserved for not sticking to my original plan, but it was not a grade I was happy with.