Personal Narrative Analysis

“Select two areas of practice (visual art, new media, performing arts, music) and compare the creative process of your work in those two areas. You should make reference to theory and the work of established artists, film makers, dramatists, musicians and/or cultural practice”

In this essay I will be comparing the two creative process of my work on two areas: visual art and drama. This essay explores the importance of creativity in education and draws on my own experience of the application of creative approaches to teaching and learning.
Donnelly (2004) suggest that ‘human beings use cognition creatively, by continually modifying and using concepts to try to deal with everyday life problems’ (p.156). This essay explores creativity in education
The second obstacle was the audience around me, I wasn’t feeling confident enough to carry on with my movements, and I thought the audience might be looking at me. The third obstacle was stretchiness of the body; I am not doing daily exercises by doing the movements I felt much pain in first session moving around, however by doing these movements every week it helped me to get fit. There are no steps to follow, no sequence of steps to learn, no way to do it wrong, however at the start I thought I might be doing the wrong movements progressing towards the end I realised there is no right or wrong answer it’s all about the movement of the body and focusing on the 5 rhythms. At the start whenever I tried to do a dance to a rhythm I found it difficult because of my surroundings and the people around. Therefore this fear and has created loads of difficult pressure. Those fears were only to know if I was doing the 5 Rhythms properly. Therefore, I was nervous but soon at the second session of creativity drama I have given myself, the Self-confident- I become good at doing things usually I wouldn’t try and that helped me become more confident because I wasn’t confident before doing the dance and I was always scared about the teacher and students
Culture and creativity are connected with one another. It is highlighted in the NACCCE report that culture is linked with the art. Consequently I was able to promote my culture through creativity. However after knowing what creativity is about, I managed to picture my identity in a box and explain it to others the different aspects of my identity from different angels. it can be said that both culture and creativity are vigorously related. Creating my identity in a box didn’t not only made me aware of my culture but however it showed me how to be creative, how to explain, stress, your feelings, solve a problem. It also taught me how creative I was than before. In secondary school I thought art wasn’t my subject but after creativity process I came to realise that through creativity I can share my feelings, I would prefer visual art as I am also more connected to it and it made me understand my ability in being creative.
In summary, I think creativity should be promoted and encouraged in all settings, since in my situation being artistic was something was intact and this belief that i was not creative enough as i could not draw continued throughout my high school. In terms of the visual arts and drama, both creativity projects expanded my understanding of creativity. These projects were definitely a form of education