Creativity

What do you understand by ‘creativity’ and to what extent have you been creative?

-          How have you tried to facilitate and encourage your own creativity?

-          Did you experience limits/blocks on your own creativity?

-          How easy/difficult was it to be creative while still working to the brief?

-          Did working within conventions stifle your creativity?

-          To what extent did you need to work with others and ‘bounce ideas’ off other people to be truly creative?

-          How much of your creativity was about trying to picture things in your mind’s eye?

-          How much of your creativity was about trial and error?

-          To what extent was a lack of confidence an issue in terms of your creativity?

-          To what extent was a lack of technical competence/confidence an obstacle to your creativity?

Here are some quite extensive notes on the theory of creativity. You should learn one or two quotes from this.

Here is an interesting presentation on Creativity .

An Essay Plan

My AS brief was to…………

Creativity is ……………..

I was able to demonstrate my creativity in a number of ways…….

Ways in which I supported my own creativity included….

Obstacles to my creativity included

…..working within conventions

…..taking risks when marks were at stake

…..working in isolation (getting lost in my own ideas)

…. lack of technical competence

…..lack of confidence

I think my ability to be creative really progressed in Year 13. I found that with the second brief…..I was able to….. and…… I found ways of avoiding the obstacles that had undermined my creativity in Year 12 by…..