Creativity

What is creativity?

The idea of creativity is different for everyone as each individual are their own. With use of the imagination, it allows an individual to create something new whether it is a product or a piece of art. Creativity is original which means that the person creating something new has to be something which had not been done before.

How can you be more creative?

To be creative you have to have a good sense of imagination. This comes naturally to some people, which sometimes could be more successful. If you were to sleep on an idea, by the time you would have woken up, it would be more clear in your head helping you to think more about it. Creativity means everything when doing something in an art form. 

Where does it come from?

I think that creativity comes from experience of peoples individual lives. They think of what they have been through in the past and then interpreted this through a piece of art/ creating a product, or just small things such as coming up with a simple joke. Creativity comes from how the brain works, it comes from thinking and imagining random things and then creating it in real life. There are many predictions and explanations of where creativity comes from. Some people think that it just comes naturally, whereas others think that you have to go through steps to activate your creative side.

What role does it play in creating a media production?

There is a lot that goes into media production. You need quite a lot of people in order to become creative. For example, when creating a film, you need different people with different ideas to enable to create a good film. When creating something in media production, you need creativity. they need to be products which are unique and would sell and appeal to the audience. 

Sir Ken Robinson is a teacher and great believer of creativity which he believes is a great issue in today's education. Robinson believes that everyone is a born artist. He states that by being creative, you need to know that you can be wrong.   He thinks that children are only more creative because they are allowed to be wrong and that they don't have any knowledge of what is wrong and what is right in the world. Therefore, they have a bigger imagination. He believes that the Adult society is wrong for teaching children that wrong things are bad things.

Here is a clip in where you can learn to be more creative. I agree with some aspects in which the 'how to' guide helps the individual to be creative. I feel that the valid points such as exercise and sleep help as they would refresh the mind which would allow the individual to think more clearly. However, I also agree with Sir Ken Robinson as I think that many children are born with a great sense of imagination and suddenly disappears over time due to how society is today.