Creativity

How has your creativity developed over time?

How has your creativity developed in your children's film?

In our childrens film we were fairly new to the software and the cameras therefore we were unsure on which ideas will look best for our opening sequence of our film.  We did not have many skills on how to use garageband, final cut and photoshop and it was all basic. We were showed certain films were we had to take our inspirations from so we were not given much freedom to choose our own inspirations. However the childrens film was from our own ideas and was unique for us. We followed the conventions of a typical childrens film by having  a moral to the story , having binary opposites of our characters, we had two heroes and our villain, and introducing the characters at the begining therefore the narrative was not creative as our childrens film was typical. However we tried to make our opening creative by creating and making our own constumes and masks. We were restricted with our location as we had to be in the college, this was not creative as we couldnt choose different locations. For our editing on Final cut we used basic fades as we were not confident on how to use the software, but as this was our first year we thought we were being creative at that point.

How has your creativity developed in your Thriller film?

In our Thriller we were more confident on how to use the different softwares and we had more time to plan and research our ideas this enabled us to be more creative. We chose specific thriller films that had the same genre as us which was Crime Thriller, we looked at several different films on youtube and was inspired from this. This helped our film to be creative as we looked at successfull thriller films and developed on their ideas but also created some more ideas which made it creative. Whilst filming we were given more freedom and were allowed to leave the college to film , however we chose to stay in college and spent a lot of time looking for a convinient location, we found the basement of the college and thought our location was creative as no students have been their to film before. In final cut we used more transitions and effects we thought this would make our film unique and help engage our audiences more. We were more confident on how to use Garage band as our skills had developed , we were given the freedo to create our soundtrack how ever we wanted and we thought this enabled our opening to be creative . However after watching other thrillers we felt that most of them had the same sort of sound track, this did not make our thriller unique and was similar to all others. To make our thriller creative we created a production logo, we used Photoshop to do this , this helped our skills to develop and our thriller looked more individual.

How has your creativity developed in your Lip Sync Task?
For our lip sync task, we had to make a short film for a very well known song to ease us into the idea of a music video. Aside from the song, we had no further instructions so we were able to look at and develop ideas we may use later on. The lip sync was also useful as it gave us confidense in the concept of lip syncing so when we did the music video, we could focus on ideas instead of if the lip sync was right.

How has your creativity developed in your music video?
For our music video, we learned to be more responsive to the music, in terms of cuts, visuals and style. Looking at several music videos on youtube inspired us to do many different things, we felt more confident that we could achieve these ideas because many ideas had already been tested in the lip sync task. We also had more time to explore and experiment with the image in terms of colour schemes and shot types. As each choice of song was different, the range of music videos was vast and diverse. To make the music video creative we reached the limits of how far we could plan, shoot and edit our videos, and while the work was ardious, the final product pays off. The almost total lack of instructions for the music video enabled us to be so creative in the music video and with the advertisement later on. Our editing had developed a lot in this video we were more confident on Final cut as we used several jump cuts,wipes, coloured filters, reverse footage all of this made our video more creative as these were our own ideas. We followed all of the Goodwins points which were, Voyeurism, Intertexuality, matching visuals and lyrics, matching music and visuals, selling the artist and genre characteristics. We used all of this and this helped our creativity as we found unique ways of reaching these points for example for our music and visuals, for the line 'get a table sitting side by side' we inserted an image of the table the two protagonists would be sitting at the very end of the music video. We were given more time to research and plan in this project this helped us with our creativity because it enabled us to explore more , find suitable locations, try out different ideas and see which one looks well.

Which one of your projects is the most creative and why?

We think that our music video is the most creative because we were more comfortable wth the different softwares, Final cut, Garage band and photoshop. We were given more time to plan and research , this helped us to find the best ideas.  Our skills had developed a lot from our first task  and we were given more freedom to choose our own ideas. We found the music video more interesting to create and more relatable to us, therefore our creativity developed to enable us to produce an advanced professional work.