Your creative Process!

This is where you start with a bright white room. It's your chance to fill it in!! There is something called the process of creativity. This process can help you out a lot in writing stories, poems, short plays ect. Some people follow this process unconsiously, others follow it step by step to help enhance their work. This past week we have been making a video about creativity in our creativity class. We followed the steps in this process and our video is turning out awesome!!
The steps to creativity are:

• Preperation aka Prespiration- A lot of hard work goes into this phase. This is the phase where you begin to brain storm and get your wonderful idea. For out video we all had a class discussion about the different things we wanted to talk about in our video and we wrote them all down on the board. An example was we wanted to talk about the different creative traits in our video. Other things you can do for this phase is try and free write, get out all of your inner ideas. You just want to get your creative motors rolling!!
• Incubation aka inspiration- In the incubation phase you kind of let everything rest and sit in your mind for a while. You can scratch ( get ideas from other people) and just find your inspiration for a good idea. In creativity we all went home and tried to think of ideas for how we might reflect our topics in our video. You may also read over your free write in this phase.
• AHA!!- This is the Eureka moment! The moment you find the perfect idea in your free write and begin to write about it, the moment we found that a good way to express the traits would be to have a traits fashion show where everybody dresses up as the different traits, the moment all the brain storming is payed off.
• Verification- This is the phase where you want to see if your idea will work. In the fashion show we tried to think " Can we do a fashion show? what will we need?" You might start writing about that subject in your free write only to realize it doesn't go very far at all. This is why you may have to go through the creative cycle more than once, before it finally pays off.

Deep into a creative mind

Last week I interviewed a girl about her creative process. Her name is Caroline Duncan, and she is your above average creative individual. Caroline lives in Dallas, Texas and is taking a photography class at SMU.
I loved Caroline's photos and I thought she had a very unique way of taking pictures, an original creative DNA. I tried to get details on this, and Caroline described herself as a very relaxed and modern photographer. I asked her if her personality relates to her photography and she enthusiasticly replied "Yes, definitely! I'm usually reserved and you can tell because i dont have any wild or crazy pictures. I stick to straight clean lines!"
Caroline first started photography under her mother's influence. Her mom is a photographer in her free time, and one day Caroline went with her mom to shoot a high school grduation."I had a great time and I've been interested in photography ever sine!".Caroline doesn't have a specific ritual but she loves to move around alot during her time taking photos to capture all of her favorite subjects like stairs and buildings.

I asked Caroline her opinions on good photos,creativity, and creative pictures. Caroline told me she likes color and natural lighting in her photos. She tends to use photoshop as an important tool. Caroline explained that in her opinion a creative picture is completly not plain and has things that stand out. In order to be creative Caroline says , you cannot ever limit yourself.