Essay for final project
“Creative Multimedia = Creativity”
According to Oxford Dictionary, creative means involving the use of the imagination or original ideas in order to create something. As we all know, multimedia means various types of media. For example, newspapers, magazines, yellow pages, radio and television. Creative multimedia is always related to creativity. Why? This is because creativity is one of the creative processes. There are many ways to be a creative person or creative thinker. By being creative can helps us to stand out from peoples. It depends on the person itself.
Let’s begin exploring creativity with strategies. When it comes to strategies, brainstorming is the main key. We can just spill out any idea, even though it is not related to the topic. It is because from there the actual idea will come. In brainstorming stage, there is no wrong idea. All ideas are accepted. There are many ways to do brainstorming. By asking questions on how to solve the problems is one of the processes. Apart from that, by rearranging or combine the methods, problems or answers might help us to find the ideas. Don’t just sit alone in the room and expect to get the great ideas. The ideas can come when you are having a good moment with friends or family, or maybe when you are walking and listening to music. Finding idea is fun when you know the processes of creative.
There are some reasons why people cannot find the way to be creative. It is all in the person itself. Some people are afraid to make some changes to be creative. They are also afraid to make mistake or break the rules in the process of creative. Some students know how to break the rules that lecturer gives in creative way and make the artwork accepted. Emotion is part of the reasons why are ideas cannot come in their processes of creative. When the person is in angry, frustrated or worry too much, there are no ways they can find the ideas. When they are in those emotions, they block their vision to see things in different point of view. They lack of spirit and energy to find the idea. The most part of blocking person from being creative is their own thought. They afraid on what others might think in their artworks. Some of them cannot accept the judgment or critic. That is why they like to follow other person’s idea. These are the ‘road block’ in person internal that need to be change in order to find the creative ideas in whatever they do.
When someone is in creativity mode, does not mean they will always being creative. For example, when we were in pre-school, our creativity was in high peak because we did things individually and we got the freedom in doing it. At that time we got the courage from teachers to continue our creativity and it is also part of learning processes. We can see that in high school, the creativity decline because of judgment or criticism from peers or teachers. That is why the students are afraid to create new things. The capacity of creativity also can increase when the students have high determination to achieve something in life, careers or academic.
In creativity, mind set is in one of the branch. When we do self talking, our questions can expend the possibility of the ideas. They also can ask people or refer to books to get more ideas. Mind mapping and proactive is very important to achieve high creativity. Mind mapping will make sure that we are not running out from the topic. There are two types of mind mapping which are logical and associated. Both are very useful. Proactive is ready to learn something new and also understand the processes of creating artworks. We also must dare to dream something that impossible. When we got the ideas, we must write or sketch it down to remember it. You can see some people with high creativity have some characteristics. They like to create things differently to see in different point of view. They also like to imagine, from there they will get the ideas. This type of person with high creativity normally will react fast on certain situation that might help them to get the ideas.
In conclusion, creativity cannot be forced. We cannot force ourselves to think creatively. It will come when the time is right. We must know the creative processes. Once we know the processes, the creativity will come naturally.
Random Association
the exercise:
random word: traffic light.
problem: How to make smoker quit
random association: dirty, black, sign, metal
this picture that cigarette can harm smoker or people around them. click on the image to view a large image.
exercise:random word: kitten
random association: cute, beautiful eyes, small, fur.
personal reflection:today class ,i learn about traffic light mind map. the lecturer teach about random associations and this is my 1st time heard that term. I gain knowledge on how to find idea if i stuck. i also can create idea out of box..as a fcm student, this is what should i know. the most critical part is when the designer dont have any idea..this class help me a lot...and i enjoy also the class when we done a lot of activities that give out mind to be out of the box. as for fcm student, we really need this kind of exercise to practice our mind to be out of box most all the time to be able to create new concept in design.v^-^v