ScreenR..

For Creativity and Concept, we were asked to create a Prezi on the subject 'The Role of relection in learning and creative practice' We were asked to discuss the topics:
- What is Reflection?
- How can we reflect?
- Why do we reflect?
-Personal Thoughts on Reflection
-Images of Reflection
-David Kolb
-Graham Gibbs
-Overall Conclusion on Reflection
and a few more, I found this a very interesting topic to talk about because it helped me to look back on the work that I had created and what I felt about it. This Prezi was a great learning technique for me to do and I really enjoyed putting it all together once I had made a start on it.

I was so happy once I found out my results I got for my ScreenR. I was really proud of how well it all came together, as it did take me a good few attempts to record it because of the barking dog in the background. (I know it can still be heard faintly, but I gave up caring after the 4th attempt). Below I have given a link to the ScreenR itself so feel free to watch and learn about all of the different creative techniques I have learned whilst at university and my thoughts against them.

http://prezi.com/mw6r1zalcpys/the-role-of-reflection-in-learning-creative-practice/

Photoshop Techniques

Whilst I had a free day, I decided to try and teach myself some new techniques to use in my Photography using Photoshop. I began researching many different tutorials to help me to create atmosphere and different mood's within my pictures, there was one that I was particularly proud of, and it is a photograph that I have managed to merge together into one to create a dark, upsetting mood showing loneliness and worry. The picture is shown below and I am very proud of how it had turned out and that I can share this with you now.

Im Struggling To Adjust..

Recently, I feel as though I have been struggling to adjust to university life, moving out to Liverpool and attempting to handle everything on my own. Finances, cooking, cleaning, deadlines and my social life. I still feel as though I am too young to grow up and move away and handle everything on my own. I'm not going to lie I have enjoyed the experience of moving away more then anything I have ever done, but it has been very difficult. Hopefully next year I will begin to relax a bit more and enjoy myself as well as keeping on top of my university work which I have definitely struggled to do during this past year. I don't know, we will see.

Edward De Bono Technique..

I managed to do some of my own research on Edward De Bono and his six thinking hats as I didn't manage to attend the lecture it was discussed. I learned that the six thinking hats are a special tool that helps groups and individuals to think more effectively and begin to process ideas more easily to other members of their team. It is a very useful group technique that can be used when ideas are struggling to come to the table. It is also a very fun way of learning and thinking to help get your brain into gear. Each hat is a different color and represents a different kind of mood or emotion to help you think with. I have shown a picture below demonstrating the six different hats and how they are beneficial to help brainstorm new ideas.

Why Creativity & Concept Is Important?

I began to wonder how creativity and concept actually helped me to benefit myself and why it was so important as a module because during my lectures of playing with Lego and making hats, it all felt a little bit pointless to me. We had a lecture discussing the reasons as to why this module is important, it turns out the BBC use most of the content we have learned on this module to help them to brainstorm new ideas for the public. I was amazed that they do this, we went through a BBC application form and outlined all of the parts that were important and how this module has helped us to easily fill one out. Below I have taken a picture of the application form to give you an example of the layout and what we discussed. I found this lecture very useful to me for future reference and now understand clearly the techniques that we have been shown whilst on the course.

Photography..

One of my all time favorite hobbies is Photography and for years I have always been interested in capturing interesting and unique images using my camera. A few years ago I was given my very own SLR camera and could not have asked for a better Christmas present. The camera that I was given was a Nikon D40x and I can easily say it has been the best present I have ever been given. I started to capture a number of different images and my friends helped me with a few different photo shoots which were then edited using Photoshop. I have shown below a couple of examples of my Photography work since I have had my SLR camera.

Avid.

Well I have to say, i am not the biggest fan in the world of Avid. I am still struggling to get my head around it now, which isn't a good thing considering. I really need to just sit down and teach myself how to use it, with no distractions. Might get a bit further in life by doing this and actually start to enjoy it, but for now I do feel as though it is very annoying when having to edit. Maybe this is because I have spent the past 3 years editing with Adobe, and I am not used to moving to a new editing software, but I do find it a little more difficult then Adobe to get my head around it, hopefully I will start to enjoy the software soon and edit with no problems.