Ides Relevant to Coursework

Quotations in which i agree with:


"The making of the new and the re arranging of the old" (Bentley 1997)

I completely agree with this theory as in our media coursework we did both, re arrange the old aspects and examples that we looked at and then evolved them to create our own idea.

"There is no absolute judgement [on creativity] All judgements are comparisons of one thing with another." (Donald Larning)

I agree with this quote by Donald Larning, who is to judge whether somebody else's work is creative or not? It is down to their though process and the effort and mind set they put into it. However copies of other work i would consider not to be creative and then therefore we are able to see that the creator/ person has not gathered that idea themselves. We as a class did this with our own pieces of coursework.


Quotations in which i disagree with:


"Technology has taken all the creativity out of media production"

Disagree, there are elements to media products still that people have created and are new. Unfortunately these elements are still then put forward and re-created by others who are inspired, as a task in the lead up to our media coursework pieces, we did infact look and take inspiration from other media texts and incorprit into our own work.
"Creativity results from the interaction of a system composed of threeelements: a culture that contains symbolic rules, a person who brings noveltyinto the symbolic domain, and a field of experts who recognise and validatethe innovation." (Csikszentmihalyi 1996)

I disagree with this statement as you don't have to be an expert to be creative, and there is most certainly not three elements that you HAVE to follow to compose the system of 'creativty', surely creativity is in fact something spontaneous and not focused on too much. I did not follow a particular pattern when making my coursework, i did however change aspects and mixed the conventions around to make a creative piece of media coursework.