AICE Media Studies AS- Brunsvold, K

               The importance of creativity when embarking  on  a new endeav or is grand.  The creative process allows us to be innovative and better at problem solving.  Ron  Beghetto  defines “creative self-efficacy" as our confidence to perform creatively on a particular task.  Beghetto  believes in strengthening our creative self-efficacy in order to become better problem solvers.  This skill can be very helpful when starting a project  such as the Media Studies portfolio project. After lis tening to  Duncan Wardle’s Ted Talk, “The Theory of Creativity”, I was certain that  Begh e tto  must have been  correct. Wardle speaks about how humans begin to think “reductively ”  over  time and what this means is that we become less creative. He then speaks about the lack of creativity at work, which is the place people need to  be creative in order to s...

             My initial reaction to  InDesign  and Premier Pro was confusion.  When testing Premier Pro,   my computer screen was flooded with various unknown buttons and features. As I went through the tutorial given to  me, I started to realize that many of these buttons I do not actually need to use.  After experiencing this and reading “ Our Place in the Universe: The Importance of Story and Storytelling in the Classroom”, I came to the conclusion that  Premier  Pro is simply a tool that I must earn to use to tell a story.  In the article, the author speaks about  how “stories have power” and how humans have used stories  “ to explain ou r world”.  This was inspiring to me. I feel that I can create my own story through film and that is  the reasoning for choosing film for my portfolio project. I should probably explain as to why I did  not choose to create a Magazine article. I d...