Last Saturday myself and my group of friends from Media professional studies decided to get our creative juices flowing by having an appropriately named 'Creative Day' at Becca's flat in the center of town.
The aim for the day was to create an open forum where ideas for our individual projects could be discussed with friends, and new ones can be born.
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| Pipes and bobble hats are of course a crucial part of the creative process. |
We began the day by taking a part in an excersie that involved us listing as many scenarios as we could think of one by one as fast as we could such as:
- A man walking a dog finds a treasure box.
- A woman falls into a painting.
- A detective discovers he can only concentrate around pies.
- An artist robs a bank.
We then decided to develop some of these scenarios in a story formatting exercise. In particular the girl falling into the painting, which became a complete narrative by the end of the day and may even be shot in the future, perfectly illustrating how ideas were born.
After this warm up, people who wanted to could present their ideas for projects and have the rest of the group challenge, develop and give feedback on the ideas. For example we helped James Dunn work on his new stand up routine and helped Mark Nugent in deciding how the final battle between two characters in his upcoming project should be conducted. I also presented small idea I've had for the 'Guardian Shorts' competition involving paper and creativity.
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| Mark Nugent on the prowl for his 'Photo of the Day'. |
After this warm up, people who wanted to could present their ideas for projects and have the rest of the group challenge, develop and give feedback on the ideas. For example we helped James Dunn work on his new stand up routine and helped Mark Nugent in deciding how the final battle between two characters in his upcoming project should be conducted. I also presented small idea I've had for the 'Guardian Shorts' competition involving paper and creativity.
After the feedback circle, the rest of the day was used by everyone involved in different ways, some built a fort to test for an upcoming short, others filmed a new short sketch and some of us continued to develop the story of the painting girl. All of this was concluded with takeaway, banter and of course, the x-factor (sigh).
All in all, I think the first creative day was a huge success, it's exciting to think of the possibility's of future days, and also what we can achieve as a group when we sit down to dedicate our time to our ideas.
The guest appearance of Slenderman was also surprising, although if anyone has seen James Dunn though contact me because he is still missing.
The guest appearance of Slenderman was also surprising, although if anyone has seen James Dunn though contact me because he is still missing.
Hopefully as more of these days happen, even more ideas will develop and grow in this space.
Thank you to everyone involved, and to you for reading this post!
Joe C
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