Creative Thinking Skills

* Note: Before you read this post, I would like to apologize the lack of  photos of my projects. Too exited to submit my final work, I forgot that I needed to take photos of all my past work. If I do get my work back, I will add more photos.

IDJ 1 : Imagine You Are A Monster

Mind Map

Monster

Reflection:

Since this was the first task, I had some difficulties brainstorming for ideas.Doing the mind map was easier because all I had to to was include my characteristics in the monster. However I had a hard time deciding how my monster should look like. The moment I picked up my pencil and started drawing random shapes, everything came together in one piece.

IDJ 2: Imagine Your Monster City/ Home

Mind Map

Monster City

Reflection : 

This task really made me think harder. I had to think about the community I had back at home, and translate the surrounding of my neighbourhood into this monster city. 

**IDJ 3 & IDJ 4 will be added when I receive my IDJs back

IDJ 5 : Book Cover Design

This is my book cover.

As can be seen, it incorporates the building in my city, in a silhouette style because the monster world usually appear at night..

Synopsis of my book

Common copyrights section of the book

"About the author" section

Reflection :

This task made me think how to incorporate all the components of my monster into one, to showcase it in the book cover. A book cover represents what is inside the 'story' that you have written. So, it must have all the components of the IDJs in one page

Project 1 A : Mind-mapping and brainstorming; CD cover

Reflection :

As the first group work, I had a hard time choosing my team members as I didn't know any of them. However, as I formed a team, we began brainstorming and came up with a few ideas based on the "Six Thinking Hats" rule. Understanding the rule is easy, but applying it to our works was hard.

Project 1 B : Musical performance ; Onomotopoeia

To view our performance, Check this link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9ErZhB3Iuo&feature=plcp

Reflection : 
If you have seen the video, you would understand the importance of team work and compatibility in a group project. Through this , I realised that it requires everyone to participate actively in a group project. No members should keep quite. They should all voice out their opinions and plan their project through this.

Project 2 : Public Awareness Video:  Smile

 
    
 

         
                                                                                     
 

Reflection :
In this project, the team members showed more enthusiasm in completing the project well, hence, with the cooperation from every team member, we were able to produce a satisfying advertisement and sending out the message that we want to.


Project 3 : Rube Goldberg Machine

Machine Sketching

These following photos shows the progress of my Machine.. 

Reflection :

Building/constructing this machine twisted my mind like crazy!. The project didn't go as planned because I had difficulty figuring out the reactions and at the same time minimizing errors and the possibility that my machine will fail to work. Nevertheless, this machine made me use my imagination like never before. Imagination that is so complex, filled with the proper mechanics and design. It was more like an engineering project. 

    Scenario during the project presentation