Post 2: Creatvity

As I am a media student, I have to deal with many problems such as being creative when developing a project, e.g. a short film. However we often find it difficult to define creativity. Is it just random ideas that come into our head or is it us actually making those ideas come to life ?

To create this image we played a game called Consequences. The game involves a group of people making a sentence that have no meaning at all. Our sentence was 'The incredible house hopped the dead Anthony'. The game involves a group of people writing words down. The first person writes 'the' plus an adjective. The person then folds the piece of paper over, so that no-one else can see. The second person writes a noun and folds the paper. The third writes a verb, then folds it over. The fourth gives the game another 'the' and an adjective. The fifth writes another noun. Going by these rules we created the sentence 'The incredible house hops over the dead Anthony'. I think this is a very creative take on our word, as I have taken each word quite literally and infused the images together so that it depicts the sentence.

I used Photoshop to create my image. I decided the best way for my image to represent the sentence would be by taking the sentence literally. The incredible hulk represents the word incredible. The bouncy castle is the house. The coffin and the man ( called Anthony) represent the dead Anthony. And the black lines represent the house hopping. I believe that the Game of Consequences was a enjoyable experience as not only did it give us some enjoyment and also tested our creativity as we each had to depict an image representing the sentence.


This is our video on creativity. We were given free reign on what we could do, however we must include a pen in there somewhere. We decided to make the pen human like and call it Penny. We thought that Penny should walk thought the school and interact with people along the way. Not being able to think of a way to end the clip, we thought that Penny should be run over by a car.


Personally I believe that this was creative as we changed the pen from an object to a humanistic character. Seeing as this was our second attempt at being creative, we had a much clearer idea on what we wanted to achieve and how to do it.




This was my own personal creative piece of work. I decided to create a poster to a sequel of an existing film Rock'n'Rolla. Following the storyline from the original film, I based several images such as the money and bullet holes on the poster. I also used images of actors who were in the original film such as Idris Elba. I manipulated the images to create the poster using photoplus. I believe that this is creative as I manipulated the images to get the desired effect. I also created my own catch line- A new type of western showdown in London. I believe this is creative as its original and has a essence of the old wild western showdowns, but in a modern day London.

My Defenition on creativity:
Creativity is the ability to generate ideas that are original and appropriate (Linda Naiman) . Creativity is also the ability to bring the ideas from an imaginary thought to reality.