Creative Lesson

This week I have been focusing on creativity and trying to undertake a particular creative task geared around my planning for my music video.

For my print designs I wanted to achieve a photo similar to this photo which I found on google.

This photo uses a shallow depth of field photography skill. This is a skill I have never used in my photography before and one I have had to work on and learn how to achieve this week. To do so I borrowed a Digital SLR camera and practised creating a shallow depth of field around a coke bottle.

To create this effect I had to learn what setting to switch the camera to and how to change the aperture level to the widest setting it will go, to change the shutter speed and create this effect.

Once I had learnt this skill I then moved onto working on photo-shop and placing text around my 'mock-up' photo to experiment with the placing of and style of text on my print tasks.

So far I have experimented with text size, style and touched on colour. My 'mock-up' so far looks like this ...

So far I have decided that white stands out against the background of the grass and also the natural colour of white fits in with the natural style of the photo its self. I have used a style of text called 'Vani' here.

Sir Ken Robinson says that creativity is something that we are born with but as we grow older this creativity inside us becomes less and less as we are told what, when and how etc.. to do things by teachers throughout or schooling years. He thinks that we are, from a young age, encouraged not to make mistakes and do as we are told, but by making mistakes and going beyond the boundaries we are being more creative and in fact we should be encouraged that to make mistakes is OK as we are being creative in the process.

I believe that what Sir Ken Robinson says does make some sense as at school we are told how to go about tasks and told how to avoid making mistakes, but I don't believe fully that this is reducing our creativity, as creativity is there, in our dreams and thoughts, its just we aren't always encouraged to apply this to our studies.

I went through the creative process of both driving and walking around the country side and letting my mind wander and brain storm idea's. I also looked through my own folk CD collection for idea's to develop further myself for my print tasks.