Creativity continued....

Last week in media we were asked to  be creative; we were given all of the lessons to create something different to what we normally would. For example, if you like it right long essays to get all of you ideas down, they produce a mind map, or go out and take some pictures.
I personally like to make lists when I'm thinking of ideas, I bullet point sections and like all the writing to look very neat on the page, I can not draw, and I'm much happier writing an essay then producing practical work. I tried to get as far away from my comfort box as I could, we produced two flip books, using stop motion pictures, and also a mind map including pictures and colours.

The first flip book featured two pencils, a blue pencil for a boy, and pink for a girl, having a fight, breaking up and the getting back together again, the second showed a house being built out of everyday objects found in a classroom, ie pencils, scissors, rubbers etc.

At first I found it difficult to not write anything down at all, and just to rely on the camera and our objects to do all the work; but as it continued I learnt that if I had stuck to my safe bullet points, the ideas that we arrived with at the end wouldn't have been the same, and wouldn't have been as good. Sometimes it is a good thing to step out of your comfort box, and try something completely different, it encourages you to think in a completely different way.