Here is a little ditty I made in garageband so get out your hairspray and enjoy!
Friday, January 28, 2011
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Thursday, January 20, 2011
Response to Reading 14 Ways to Get Breakthrough Ideas
Here is the reading that I this whole post is based on.
At first I didn’t think I would like this reading. I thought it was going to tell me a bunch of different ways to brainstorm. I thought it was going to tell me to think outside the box to come up with brilliant ideas. Instead it was very logical ways to get ideas. Ways to get Ideas that make cense. They seem so easy but they make sense. These are ways that many brilliant people use to get good Ideas, people that ended up with a lot of money off of their great ideas. There are a lot of examples of these people in the readings. I thought all of the fourteen ways to get ideas were good but here are three that stood out to me.
1. Follow your Fascination
Lets start out with the very first one follow you fascination. He is basically saying exactly what it says in the title follow your fascination. Fascination is nature’s way of getting our attention. It is a clue that something is worthy of our engagement. I think this is a good suggestion. It makes sense, I don’t think everything that I am fascinated with will be a great idea but I think I should start looking at the things I am fascinated with a little closer. As far as implementing this into my own creative life this could mean making a documentary about something that fascinates me, or even making a movie in a certain style that is fascinating to me.
5. Fantasize
This is saying that many great ideas come from fantasizing. It says that we are not encouraged to fantasize enough even though bosses want their employees to come up with fantastic ideas. This is true, and I don’t think we are encouraged to fantasize enough. I fantasize all the time in my life. I always tell people that I am going to be the head of a major movie studio some day. This could be implemented into my own creative life in many ways. When coming up with movie ideas it is good to fantasize especially if you want a fantastic movie (you like what I did there). Movies are made to make you fantasize. I know after I saw Iron Man I wanted to be Tony Stark for weeks. I still do but I don’t think I will be inheriting billions of dollars any time soon and I don’t want to be one of those guys on youtube that try to build their own iron man suit.
8. Take a Break
This is one of my favorites for oblivious reasons, but it really does help. It helps to take a break when your trying to work on something. I do this all the time when I’m studying for tests. I can only work on something for so long before I start to not be productive. It helps to take a break to get your mind a chance to reset. This is defiantly something that I put into practice in my every day life. I do this when I am studying for a test or doing any sort of schoolwork.
The question that I am choosing to answer comes at the end of the ninth suggestion Notice and Challenge Existing Patterns and Trends. The questions are. What trends in the marketplace most intrigues you? In what ways might these trends shift in the coming years—and how might your most inspired idea be in sync with this imagined shift?
As far as what trends in the marketplace most intrigues me I would have to say the way that the Internet and TV are merging. With the rise of youtube more people are getting their entertainment from the Internet now a days. Google just came out with there form of Internet TV, and TV is having a hard time keeping up.
I think the trend will be that TV and the Internet will merge into one thing in the coming years. You will watch TV through the Internet on your TV. I don’t really have any inspired ideas about this but hopefully will come up with something that will make me millions.
Monday, January 17, 2011
Three people who influences me as a creative person
There are many people out there in the world of film, television and music that influences me as a creative person. Sometimes I think that the best influence on myself as a creative person is myself, but if I have to pick three it would probably go a little something like this.
Quentin Tarantino
I have been a fan of Quentin Tarantino for a while. I love how all of his movies are filled with blood and violence. He is always pushing the envelope. He always keeps you on the edge of your seat. This is especially true in Reservoir Dogs. He always keeps you wanting more. His movies take you on a ride, and make you ask the question what just happened. Most of all Quentin is a master at using Tension and Release in his films. He does this through the score, the dialog, and the framing of the shots. This is a common theme throughout all of his movies but is never more present then in his film Inglorious Bastards. There is Tension and Release right off the bat when the dairy farmers is Hiding the Jews from the Jew hunter. Below is a trailer for the film.
Eric Roth
I can’t say that I am a huge fan of Eric Roth. I know he wrote the screenplay for Forrest Gump, but I couldn’t tell you anything else that he did. However, I love that movie, and don’t need to know anything else he did because that movie alone proves what a creative person he is. I think it won something like six academy awards. The script has many examples of Irony in it. When Forrest Gump was talking about Lieutenant Dan he said “he had a relative die in every single American war, I guess you could say he has a lot to live up to.” There are examples of irony like that throughout the script. Tom Hanks does a great job at making the script come to life. I couldn’t find that exact scene on youtube but here is the trailer for the film.
Darren Aronofsky
I love Darren Aronofsky films even though I haven’t seen Black swan yet. Requiem for a Dream is one of my favorite movies. The way that Aronofsky makes films is very unique. You can always tell when your watching one of his movies. I love the way he uses sound like the pop pop when the grandma is taking pills in Requiem. Not just sound but the visuals help you know its an Aronofsky film. He has a unique look to his movies. I cant really know exactly what it is but I think its mostly a cobination of the way he frames and lights the shot. He does a great job of using Conscious and Sub-Conscious. In Requiem your watching the people’s lives get destroyed on screen and its affecting the Sub-Conscious. All of his movies tend to affect you on different levels. Here is a trailer for Requiem for a Dream.
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