Creativity & Concept

On Thursday 20^th October 2011, a couple of people from MOFILM came into our lecture, they showed us some short films that students have previous created. They then asked us to get into groups and come up with ideas for a film from the brief we were given the brief said that the video could be about anything, but a person or a group of people would have to hit with a newspaper, as the video would be about a news paper company.

Over the next few lectures we were given images and had to come up with ideas. With the first set of images we had to come up with ideas for a Snow Mobile. The idea that my group came up with was a bubble machine that would work on the ice/snow and also water. We then came up with ideas of Snow Skates, Snow Dye and also The Snow Canoe/Trolley. We were then given more images to come up with different ideas; we came up with a wig which changes colours & styles, A skateboard which is voice activated, sunglasses which changes what you see, an all in one breakfast maker. We were then asked to come up with an idea we could use the SCAMPER method on the idea, our idea was a mirror hall as it would be personal reflection. SCAMPER stands for; Substitute, Combine, Adapt, Modify, Put to other use, Eliminate, Reverse.

The next lecture we were placed into different groups and asked to research divergent thinking, we had to explain divergent thinking once each group had researched different information techniques. Our tutors then asked us to place our posters containing the research up around the wall; they then went around the room talking about each group’s research. The other groups consisted of; Concept Extraction, Eno Cards, De Bono Cards, Scamper, Convergent Thinking, Plus Minus Interesting, Multiple Intelligences, Thinking outside the box. We had all spoke about the research we had to explain things that we had noticed around the university and also to explain a type of person you see around the university. Our tutors then placed all our post it notes of the people and things you notice around the room together, we were then given the post it notes and asked to come up with a product that would help improve things within the university.

v  Our topic was a stressed 1^st year student, missing home.

Ø  Students sit in groups at lunchtimes

Ø  Students on different courses do not mingle in the coffee shop area.

Ø  People walk around the building in cluster’s, they don’t mingle.

v  Our Idea was a screen that shows events happening e.g. film nights, Drinks events, Gigs. The events would be open to all students, staff. The groups allocated would be randomly picked to ensure an event which would be mixed. Users would swipe their ID card to accept the event, also with their cards and at the event they would receive discount.

In the next lecture we were once again placed into groups of five and had to have a discussion about Lego. We were then asked to create a tower out of the Lego blocks the towers base had to be green and also to have a Lego person on the top. In our groups we had to explain our choices we picked for the tower, explaining what the tower represented, we were then asked to edit the tower to represent what we believe we bring to a team. Once we had completed our tower we were then asked to build another object that would represent what we thought is important within a group, once each person in the group had finished, we then had to place the object on the table and place them in importance to a team being successful. We found that there were some items that were missing to make the team work, so we created a few other objects to represent the missing links of the team. Within the last few lectures of the first semester we started writing up our 2000 word reflection of the different techniques we had learnt, we also had to create a prezi presentation which would also be a way on reflecting on the techniques and how they are used. 

I really enjoyed the Lego lecture, learning about how to create an object to show our thought and also to show our own creativity using the Lego blocks.  Out of the entire lectures learning about different techniques of creativity this one is the one I found enjoyable, because we were placed into groups we learnt about how the group members view themselves.