The focus of this weeks session was looking at different learning techniques in our work and lessons much like the Gibbs reflective cycle and design cycles for different projects in either animation or illustration. One tactic would be researching the problem and that there are different ways of researching the problem besides the internet. One element would be what speaks to you and what inspires you to do the research. This was where the thinking lenses that we discussed last week one method was the 6 thinking hats created by Edward de Bono, and these had significances to different stages of learning.
- White- Is about the data and information that we research and to record information in its current availability.
- Red: Signifies feelings and intuition and in a group decision and it was good to put your feelings forward both in research and group decisions.
- Yellow: This is about taking a positive attitude on our research and seek the benefits and rewards in an impossible situation.
- Black: This is the thought of caution, that when doing something your judgment must be crucial and not overuse an easy route as it could have unintended consequences.
- Green: Focuses on creative thinking and and generating ideas sometimes even from the most unlikely places and put them to a practical use.
- Blue: The focus on process control and thinking about thinking when you inputing the research.
The key in this was Divergent thinking working on new ways of thinking and how we see the world in a whole new light or even perspective and in quoting disney's Big Hero 6 "Use those big brains of yours and figure a way around the problems. Look for a new angle" (Disney Big Hero 6 2014).
The point of these methods was to help develop the other parts of our brains to understand our knowledge of thinking. One thing that we learned was the difference between artists and designers, whilst designers come up with the ideas the artists are the ones who bring those ideas to life in their work.
For this weeks activity we were given a sheet of paper with pictures of random objects and link them to following things, a Musician, a film maker/film and an animation and explain our decided connections to these objects.
The objects were glitter, post stick notes, feathers and pipe cleaners and I was finding it a bit hard to determine links until now with a little patience and consideration.
- Glitter: Katy Perry: I believe the glitter creates a link to the musician Katy Perry because although I don't follow music I've seen a few of her music videos and most of them are bright and colourful which is what glitter is such as her music video California Girls and Last Friday night for example.
- Post stick notes: I found that post stick notes are original notes for plans and scripts on films or even films about books. This linked it to Peter Jackson, the film director of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and the Hobbit films as they were based on the books written by J.R.R Tolkien and the references to those stories are in the films that were made. This is where the links to the Poststick notes came in as they represent notes and plans for creating the scenes.
- Feathers &Pipe cleaners: What created the link to the pipe cleaners and the feathers was one of my favourite animations from Studio Gibli, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind as some aspects of the story would flow like the feathers in the breeze of the wind and the pipe cleaners signified the tension building in some aspects of the story, be it the antagonists plan taking place or the near ending of the film itself.
What I learned from this lesson was many more stages of learning besides looking on the internet and other routes of research and learning new things and one thing that stuck with me was the four stages of learning.
Unconscious incompetence:
You don't know that you
don't know how to do something
Conscious incompetence:
You don't know that you
don't know how to do something
and it bothers you.
Conscious Competence:
You know that you know how to
do something and it takes effort.
Unconscious Competence:
You know how to do something
and its second nature to you.
What stuck with me about this was the purpose of this course to teach us the basics and whilst I'm still wrapping my head around this new learning style to what I had in College and what work that needed to be done. However as many people have said we must adapt in order to survive, and though I have my doubts I must persist and learn what I can to move forward on this course.
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