response to question 2

This question is asking us about the influence that past student work either others or our own have on our creative ability now. An example of a resource we used to research and plan was the Internet, in particular youtube. This website helped us to identify the specific set of generic conventions that recurs throughout our set genre. This is also an example of texts that influenced us throughout the project.
Once we had learnt how to pick out specific conventions we then applied these to our own work. This helped our creativity in a number of ways, one example is the fact that it helped us to outline our project parameters. However in this case it narrowed our creativity, but allowed us to be more realistic in our choices. Our creativity was also broadened, the conventions that we researched helped us to generate new and original ideas through inspiration from past texts.
The introduction of these conventions also brought new ideas to the table, new locations, new shot types and so on. Once we had picked up on and applied the conventions to our own work we had to decide whether to keep to these conventions or to go against them. We discovered that it is important to use a mixture to create a sense of originality and to maintain the visual relationship between the genre and the text. Using our first year work we know what is possible which benefits us because we can develop ideas to maximize potential.