Chosen project

24th November 09

After reflecting on our first post we have realized that we have become more analytical and can explain why we have chosen to do our project in a much more detailed way.

This project allows us to be extremely creative and as art students we feel this is best suited to us compared to the other briefs. It gives us a challenge and allows us to go down many different paths and develop not only our ideas but the audiences too. 

The project will allow us to portray our ideas and experiences through things we have researched and studied such as feminism and other different theories. The final cut will therefore be a product of our ideas and how we have related to the different theories and what we have learnt from them. It is ideally suited to us because we can be highly creative and execute a "piece of art" in itself. 

Furthermore we have a more in-depth knowledge of the music industry because of our previous project which was to create a music magazine. We have had an insight into the industry and what works and what doesn't. However because this is a video it gives us a new challenge and new ideas to work with. 

1st December

How important are your experiences to your creativity? 

Our experiences are extremely important because they influence our outlook on life and how we think about certain issues. Creativity can be affected by many different things, whether its influences, experiences or the media. We feel that our experiences are the main factor affecting our creative thoughts. We can reflect back on certain things that have affected us and how this made us feel. We can then adapt this to our video. 

Could you be specific?

For example when the girl in the video feels lonely. From past experiences when we have felt lonely or seen others who are lonely we can understand the emotions that go with this, the colors associated with that emotion and how it should be portrayed. 

As we have already discussed we are both art students and have a creative outlook on life. Our minds are creatively challenged everyday, not just in our work but in our experiences. So as this shows it is a cycle where both creativity and experiences influence and affect each other.  

Can people of your age be as creative as older people with more experiences?
Sometimes having more experiences can be limiting because it gives you an outlook on many things rather than using creative ideas which are new and fresh. Older people do have more worldliness than younger people however if everyone were to have had the same experiences then it would never work because our opinions and outlooks would all be the same. 

People of our age can be as creative as older people because their outlook is new and vibrant. However it does depend on the individual and all the factors that affect their lives everyday. 

Could you be very specific about how your AS project feeds into your A2 project?

Our previous AS project was to design a music magazine including the front cover, contents page and double page spread. It feeds straight into out A2 project because it influences our ideas on music magazines, the music industry and how the institutions feed music to the audiences. 

In particular it will help us to make the music advertisement and c.d. cover because we have looked at how magazines advertise products. The music video has been influenced because on our previous AS project we were the institution that music producers had advertise and link their work back to in order to sell music.