“When it seems the good ideas just won’t come to me, I …. to help calm myself or create space in my mind to…”
When it seems the good ideas just won’t come to me, I take a little break from writing to help calm myself or create space in my mind to continue working later on.
“When faced with ambiguity or setbacks, I… to advance the development of my ideas.”
When faced with ambiguity or setbacks, I take some deep breaths and think happy thoughts.
“One strategy or activity that stimulates my imagination is…”
One strategy that stimulates my imagination is thoughtful breathing and stepping away from the computer sometimes.
My goal would have to be to have “an area of writing in which I feel confident to develop new ideas”.
To achieve my goal, I will focus on specific areas of writing and work on them until one in specific stands out to me and I can feel confident in my ability in it.
Through creating this movie I learned that when reading a piece of literature, if you pay attention to the description of each character, you can figure out what each character’s markers are. In the story of Peter Quince that I was given, it did not talk about Quince’s physical markers very much, so I had to make the avatar based mainly on my imagination. However, the story did talk about what kind of a person Quince was, and I think that is reflected in the avatar I created for him. I learned that the setting of a story is figured out by the descriptions of the characters’ surroundings. I also learned that stories can have multiple settings! I learned that mood is the vibe of the story, and how the story makes you feel. Mood can be figured out by paying attention to the events of a story, and how those events are described. The song I chose for the video is a rather funky beat, which I think fits the storyline because the scene where Bottom turned into a donkey was pretty wild.
Core competency reflection
I can show a sense of accomplishment and joy. I take pride in my work and myself.
I took joy in completing this video, and felt proud in the work I did.
I can form new ideas to create new things. I can also build on the ideas of others.
I made a lot of the slides on the video, where with each I added titles, text, a VoiceOver, and a picture of my choosing to represent a scene from the story. I also changed some of my ideas and adjusted based off of some of my partner’s ideas.
I can persevere over time to develop my ideas, and I expect setbacks and failure, but use that to develop my ideas.
I took time to choose a lot of choices I made for the video, and I was able to adjust to the challenges I faced and use them to improve some of my choices.
I can reflect on my thinking.
I reflected on all of my ideas, some of which I stuck with and some of which I decided after some thinking that they were better off changed.
