Monday

Research And Creativity

My creativity over the last few years has mainly been for personal satisfaction but also most of the best work was done for various school projects, mainly during A-Levels. The two main subjects were Art and ICT at which I best showed my creativity. Therefore I first thought that most of the work was for the teachers, but thinking about it the work was actually done for myself because it was me who wanted the qualifications out of the course not the teachers. There has also been cases in which the work was requested, in one particular case with my cousin’s sports shop, I was asked to design and create them a website, this was linked in with one A-Level project.
It has been done in this way because my school projects always took priority over personal projects, and I felt I could get more out of putting more time and effort into my school projects from the qualifications that I would receive. All the work I have done in the past has been decided by me however, I have been guided in different ways by teachers, tutors and family, to which may have made me change my decision.
In the future I would like my creating to be unique and independent, at this stage of my life I feel like I want my creating to be in web design. However this may change over the next couple of years with so many new fields to try at.

Research can help me get to the new places in many different ways, it can give me experience of successful work in specific areas, and it can also help me link other work in with my own for the future. Out of the four starting points I feel most drawn to the “In Front Of” method. I chose this because I feel that when I see other people’s reactions it can help me as it opens new thoughts in different areas. However, individually I am not brilliant at reviewing work, without some basic information or at least one opinion on the work. The method I feel most wary of is the “Behind” method, this sounds the most complicated although it sounds interesting to look into work in more detail, however I do not feel that I would use this method as a first choice. I do not think that any of the staring points are irrelevant; I feel that they could all help in one way or another.

Friday

Mood Board 1


Above is the mood board for my Avatar, i thought of 5 adjectives to decribe my personality or appearance. The first word i came up with about my appearance is tall, because i am quite tall, i used the empire state building to symbolise my height. The second word i came up with was fast, i used a cheetah to symbolise my speed, as when i was younger i used to be very quick at running. I then searched the meaning of my name on the internet, most of the websites i found described my name as 'protector' or 'resolute protector' therefore i represented this as a shield. I then struggled to come up with two more words, so i asked my flatmates and i was described as reliable and competative, therefore i represented reliability with the large rock in the background and my competative nature is represented through the boxers.