Research&Planning: Defining Creativity

During our lesson we took some time to discover what creativity meant to us and what it meant to other people. This was important as later in the course it is required that we express creativity through our music videos and we answer an exam question incorporating these ideas.
The term creativity is often used to describe pieces of work, especially in Media Studies but it is actually quite hard to define, as a class we came up with a few key ideas of what creativity could mean to us.

• Thinking 'outside the box',
• Expressing yourself,
• Imagination,
• Having no boundaries,
• Being inspired,
• A process,
• Inventing/reinventing,
• Something made for an audience,

We then had to make our own definition of creativity and mine was:

Creativity is a process of creating something using imagination, it is expressing yourself and feelings  through different mediums.

It is defined by the Oxford dictionary as:

Creativity (cre¦ativ|ity)

Pronunciation: /ˌkriːeɪˈtɪvɪti/

noun

[mass noun]

• the use of imagination or original ideas to create something; inventiveness: firms are keen to encourage creativity