Monday, January 24, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Blog Entry 2: Audio response to Find Your Howl
This is the link to the article I refer too.
http://changethis.com/manifesto/51.01.YourHowl/pdf/51.01.YourHowl.pdf
This is my audio response : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DmR3Co0GeE
This is my audio response : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DmR3Co0GeE
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Blog Entry 1B: Ways to Get Ideas
http://changethis.com/manifesto/show/49.06.14Ways
Mitch Ditkoff gives his readers 14 ways to get breakthrough ideas. They are very insightful thoughts that really make you question the way that you go about solving a problem or thinking of an idea. After reading this, "getting a breakthrough idea" doesn't seem like such a hard task. Realistically, if you are involved and interested in something, you will know enough information about that certain subject that it would not be hard at all to just let your thoughts flow into a great idea!! But also easier said than done, but I believe these 14 steps will significantly help people with ideas floating around in their heads to make them reality! My favorite three steps are...
1. Follow Your Fascination
6. Define the Right Challenge
8. Take a Break
Fallowing your Fascination. I like that he uses the word fascination rather than interest. I think that intrest has the connotation of something that you know all about, your friends and family know it is an interest of yours and it seems concrete. Fascination is that little thing that, when you see it, it makes you think and it does something to your mind that really sparks it. Fascination has the potential to be so new and exciting and lead to a real passion and breakthrough idea! I think one of the most important things you can do in life is WHAT YOU WANT TO DO!!! mind-blowing, I know. I also think fallowing your fascination is a great way of opening your minds potential, because if your fascinated, you'll have a passion and if your passionate, you'll have drive, and if your driven there is nothing you cant do. Having video production as a major in itself is fallowing my fascination, but within that, making videos about things that fascinate me will probably lead something really well made.
Defining the Right Challenge. During school, especially high school, I've found that the most students have wrong answers to things, because they dont know what they're being asked. Not knowing the question makes impossible to answer. I recently watched a movie in my english class in which 5 people were trapped in an enclosed space with only water for an unknown amount of time. It was sort of a "saw" spin off where he was watching them to see how they would react to being trapped without food. Of the five, two decided that eating the others was the only way to survive, when the last woman of the opposing three separates herself from them, they kill one another and she temps the watcher to come down by writing him a message on a piece of metal and 'dying' due to starvation. When he comes down, she kills him and is able to escape. She saw the problem as, how do I get out? not who do I kill to survive? By defining the right challenge and thinking long term she ended up being the only survivor. Defining the right challenge is a huge and vital but many times overlooked step to solving an issue. Defining the issue can be used to trouble-shoot and get things done faster on set and while fixing equipment.
Taking a break. Nap-time. A lost art. I think there would be nothing better for children in elementary through high school than nap-time. Stress is a mind killer! A break can be the most rewarding thing to a strenuously thinking mind. By not thinking about about an issue or problem, you start to think about it and BOOM! answer. A relaxed mind falls to your subconscious which then finds the answer in some place we can't find. Personally, I find that I start having my best ideas as I'm trying to fall asleep, right when I want to stop thinking. I keep a notebook by my bed so I can write down all the ideas I have once I try to fall asleep, so I guess thats my way of implementing taking a break in my own creative life, going to sleep :) .
3. Tolerate Ambiguity
What new idea of yours is bubbling on the brink of breakthrough? In what ways can you stay
with it, even if something in you is impatient for a breakthrough?
I have an idea for a movie, but because it is coming from a real life experience its frustrating to pick and choose what is important and also a larger than life approach to make it interesting. By keeping a journal of ideas I can stay with it in hopes of stumbling upon a better way of going about my story.
Mitch Ditkoff gives his readers 14 ways to get breakthrough ideas. They are very insightful thoughts that really make you question the way that you go about solving a problem or thinking of an idea. After reading this, "getting a breakthrough idea" doesn't seem like such a hard task. Realistically, if you are involved and interested in something, you will know enough information about that certain subject that it would not be hard at all to just let your thoughts flow into a great idea!! But also easier said than done, but I believe these 14 steps will significantly help people with ideas floating around in their heads to make them reality! My favorite three steps are...
1. Follow Your Fascination
6. Define the Right Challenge
8. Take a Break
Fallowing your Fascination. I like that he uses the word fascination rather than interest. I think that intrest has the connotation of something that you know all about, your friends and family know it is an interest of yours and it seems concrete. Fascination is that little thing that, when you see it, it makes you think and it does something to your mind that really sparks it. Fascination has the potential to be so new and exciting and lead to a real passion and breakthrough idea! I think one of the most important things you can do in life is WHAT YOU WANT TO DO!!! mind-blowing, I know. I also think fallowing your fascination is a great way of opening your minds potential, because if your fascinated, you'll have a passion and if your passionate, you'll have drive, and if your driven there is nothing you cant do. Having video production as a major in itself is fallowing my fascination, but within that, making videos about things that fascinate me will probably lead something really well made.
Defining the Right Challenge. During school, especially high school, I've found that the most students have wrong answers to things, because they dont know what they're being asked. Not knowing the question makes impossible to answer. I recently watched a movie in my english class in which 5 people were trapped in an enclosed space with only water for an unknown amount of time. It was sort of a "saw" spin off where he was watching them to see how they would react to being trapped without food. Of the five, two decided that eating the others was the only way to survive, when the last woman of the opposing three separates herself from them, they kill one another and she temps the watcher to come down by writing him a message on a piece of metal and 'dying' due to starvation. When he comes down, she kills him and is able to escape. She saw the problem as, how do I get out? not who do I kill to survive? By defining the right challenge and thinking long term she ended up being the only survivor. Defining the right challenge is a huge and vital but many times overlooked step to solving an issue. Defining the issue can be used to trouble-shoot and get things done faster on set and while fixing equipment.
Taking a break. Nap-time. A lost art. I think there would be nothing better for children in elementary through high school than nap-time. Stress is a mind killer! A break can be the most rewarding thing to a strenuously thinking mind. By not thinking about about an issue or problem, you start to think about it and BOOM! answer. A relaxed mind falls to your subconscious which then finds the answer in some place we can't find. Personally, I find that I start having my best ideas as I'm trying to fall asleep, right when I want to stop thinking. I keep a notebook by my bed so I can write down all the ideas I have once I try to fall asleep, so I guess thats my way of implementing taking a break in my own creative life, going to sleep :) .
3. Tolerate Ambiguity
What new idea of yours is bubbling on the brink of breakthrough? In what ways can you stay
with it, even if something in you is impatient for a breakthrough?
I have an idea for a movie, but because it is coming from a real life experience its frustrating to pick and choose what is important and also a larger than life approach to make it interesting. By keeping a journal of ideas I can stay with it in hopes of stumbling upon a better way of going about my story.
Blog Entry 1A: Creative People that Inspire Me
Three Creative people that inspire me as a creative person are Andrew Jenks, Walt Disney and Baz Luhrmann.
Andrew Jenks started out as a kid interested in film making just like any of the students here at OU. He was 19 when one summer he moved into a nursing home and documented his experiences. It got a lot more attention than he thought it would. MTV picked him up and he now has a show called World of Jenks, where he fallows around seemingly normal people and document their lives. He has episodes where he has fallowed around an MMA fighter, an aspiring Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader, a 20-year-old with autism and many others. In the attached episode he fallows around 23-year-old Brogan in the “shockingly dangerous world of animal rescue”.
Freedom's Flight-- Andrew Jenks http://www.mtv.com/videos/world-of-jenks-ep-5-freedoms-flight/1649260/playlist.jhtml
Jenks inspires me as a creative person because he was a normal kid, goofing with his friends and had a camera, but he decided to do good with his camera. From his show, things that usually go unspoken of like the ARM (Animal Recovery Mission) are put into public eyes and it really shows how complex peoples lives can be. Showing the soft family man, behind an MMA fighter and the tearful hard and surprisingly non-superficial life of a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader. I think his stories used the audiences’ conscious affection toward the subject of that episode in efforts to affect their subconscious the next time they make an assumption of what a certain person is like. I think this truly is reality television.
Freedom's Flight-- Andrew Jenks http://www.mtv.com/videos/world-of-jenks-ep-5-freedoms-flight/1649260/playlist.jhtml
Jenks inspires me as a creative person because he was a normal kid, goofing with his friends and had a camera, but he decided to do good with his camera. From his show, things that usually go unspoken of like the ARM (Animal Recovery Mission) are put into public eyes and it really shows how complex peoples lives can be. Showing the soft family man, behind an MMA fighter and the tearful hard and surprisingly non-superficial life of a Dallas Cowboy cheerleader. I think his stories used the audiences’ conscious affection toward the subject of that episode in efforts to affect their subconscious the next time they make an assumption of what a certain person is like. I think this truly is reality television.
Walt Disney also inspires me as a creative person. Not only his drive to becoming an infamous name in every household but also his dedication to children and fun. The Walt Disney Classic movies are probably the most pure form of what a classic means. There is not a child in the United States that hasn’t seen a Disney classic movie. The princesses are the centrals of what little girls dress up as and strive to be. Walt Disney is a prime example of active and didactic mechanisms in use. Snow White for example, she eats an apple from a stranger and she falls into a ‘deep sleep’ and is taken away, a.k.a. you should not eat food from strangers/ let them know your home alone. My love for Disney is one very much based on my childhood but I love the stories and I love teaching children, especially now a days they need a bit of a sense of direction.
Snow White and the Poison Apple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irTuCedD9Ms&feature=related
Snow White and the Poison Apple http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irTuCedD9Ms&feature=related
Most of all I am inspired by Baz Luhrmann. Known for William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, Australia, Strictly Ballroom and Moulin Rouge! . I will use Moulin Rouge as my example as it’s my all time favorite movie. He wrote, directed produced and worked on the soundtrack of this film that I find completely flawless (call it blinded by love if you want). You can see even in the attached trailer for the movie the use of contrast and affinity. You will see mass amounts of red against a darkish grey background. Also the clever use of foreshadowing using the scenes of the play being written is extremely witty for the audience during they’re second or third time watching. Also the chose to use songs already popular was great because, I know personally, I enjoy musicals far more when I know the songs, making it so I enjoy them my third of fourth viewing, where as this movie it excites the audience in that they too know these lyrics and can relate.
Moulin Rouge Official Trailer 2001 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDw1_yV6ufM
Friday, January 7, 2011
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