ARTBEAT Issue 01 October 2016
The Arts magazine of Alcanta International College, Guangzhou. An international IB secondary school offering Visual Arts Diploma and Theatre Arts Diploma courses. 'ARTBEAT' is created and edited by Head of Arts Jamie Lowe and Drama Teacher John Knauss.
The Arts magazine of Alcanta International College, Guangzhou. An international IB secondary school offering Visual Arts Diploma and Theatre Arts Diploma courses. 'ARTBEAT' is created and edited by Head of Arts Jamie Lowe and Drama Teacher John Knauss.
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<strong>ARTBEAT</strong> MAGAZINE<br />
18<br />
STORM-CHASING<br />
On how brainstorming ideas helps us to catch the creative lightening<br />
Are you one of those people who find yourself unconsciously making marks, scribbling elaborate<br />
doodles or writing down (then illustrating or decorating) notes on whatever surface is to hand when<br />
you are supposed to be doing something else? Perhaps you always being told off for not paying<br />
complete attention in class as you doodle out your visions or decorate the page(s) before you ? Then do<br />
not worry because this is not a bad thing!<br />
There is a word for it and its called: “brainstorming” and it’s a skill that we can really begin to enhance<br />
and develop to our advantage with a bit of direction. Perhaps the best way to describe “brainstorming”<br />
is simply by using an image of how it may work:<br />
By the time you read this, our current DP2 students will have been brewing-up brainstorms of their<br />
own in order to: firstly generate the right conditions for the “lightening” of an idea and then to convert<br />
those flashes of creative energy and direct them into meaningful Process Portfolio work. The best thing<br />
about using this brainstorming process is that more often than not the brainstorm itself also counts<br />
towards your Process Portfolio. We look at how certain students from our DP2 studio are getting ready<br />
to bring the thunder. . . .
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