AICE Media Studies AS- Angelo, G

  CREATIVITY AND GENRE:             When developing a creative work, one must ask what procedure will be used to conduct the project at hand. During the previous week in AICE Media Studies the class had watched a Ted Talk that featured former head of innovation and creativity at Disney, Duncan Wardle. The Ted Talk discussed ideas about how creative ideas are usually suppressed by the initial subconscious decision; for example, when professional architects were asked to design a house in 60 seconds, all of them drew the typical square with a triangle roof design, none of them created anything unique. I was surely shocked when I realized that if I had had competed against architectural geniuses to make a house in 60 seconds, we would have created a structure of equal quality. The main point of the Ted Talk was to open people up to not to think linearly, but instead to think three-dimensionally, creating solutions to what might ...

  TO TEAM OR NOT TO TEAM:             For the past week in AICE Media Studies I had contemplated about my decision on whether to do my InDesign magazine project alone or with a group. After a week of thought I have decided to work alone for the upcoming project. My reasoning for working alone is based solely on the fact that I do not like to rely on others when it comes to my well being and my success in life. As an individual I have enjoyment out of creating my very own, personal vision in the work that I do and love it even more when I have a thinking space all to myself to work in. I participated in an activity where the class had to explain and describe a social media account of another person. I did not have fun trying to come up with explanations as to why people had or posted pictures on their social media accounts nor did I care for it; perhaps an indicator as to how I find social media boring, but as relating to th...