The Creative Process

So after my little crisis and subsequent abandonment of our piece on disability (for the time being) we needed to begin something new.

I was well aware of the creative process looking a little like this.

I’ve always been interested by the process of creativity and how this fits into university which is formulaic with deadlines and assessment criteria.

• no interviews
• no voice-over
• only found-footage or other appropriated material
• is non-photorealistic

I think because of the challenging restrictions my mind went to trying to solve a problem before we knew what the problem was. We started to get an image in out head of what we wanted the films to look like but didn’t have the subject matter to match.

With two weeks left, we started the creative process…again. We used a trusty friend, the mind map brainstorm.

Digressing for one minute! One of the best parts of this subject was being in a class with people who were passionate about stuff! People with opinions, people that wanted to make things that mattered to them.

Now, as there was the time restriction, I felt under pressure and a little defeated. So I made something. I really did just need to throw myself into an idea, regardless of the groups direction, in order to get myself on the path to creating something again.

I explored Foreign Aid and Australia’s lack of generosity toward other countries that are in need. It’s not a particularly polished or powerful in its current sketchy state, but I found the making of it got me in a much better headspace to continue after feeling even though the idea wasn’t pursued.

I find the getting feedback on my work no longer scary, in fact I find it super . Thinking back to being a 1st year student who never wanted to show work, I think the the studio model of learning to be incredibly helpful in discussing and listening to feedback and

When I am not at uni I work in a marketing team. My boss always says, “we want to be known a team of active problem solvers”, and although marketing jargon makes me cringe slightly every time I hear it I do believe its true.

Sometimes the solution is taking a step away, or a step in a different direction but a step nonetheless. There certainly isn’t any creativity in stopping altogether.

I had heard that the best way to be truly creative is to have limitations, as they force you to problem solve. So perhaps by thinking about form before content actually did us a world of good in thinking and imagining our film into existence.