Creative Process Annotated Bibliography and Video Documentary

DM-GY 6053 Ideation and Prototyping Tandon Online

Creative Process Research Paper & Video Documentary

Working in groups of two, you will research, analyze, evaluate, and communicate the research & design processes of a creator from a discipline of your team’s choice. The final form of this research project will be a collaborative annotated bibliography, research paper and video documentary.

Possible Choices (but not limited to):

  • Sarah Blakely (Spanx)

  • Richard Branson

  • John Cage

  • Kyle Cooper

  • Thomas Edison

  • Albert Einstein

  • Leonardo Da Vinci

  • Charles Darwin

  • Walt Disney

  • Charles & Ray Eames

  • Federico Fellini

  • Henry Ford (Ford Motor Company)

  • Benjamin Franklin

  • Art Fry (Post-It Note)

  • Bill Gates

  • Alfred Hitchcock

  • Frida Kahlo

  • Hideo Kojima

  • Steve Jobs

  • Sal Khan (Khan Academy)

  • Stephen King

  • Paul Klee

  • David Lynch

  • Gordon Parks

  • Philippe Petit

  • Pablo Picasso

  • Robert Rodriguez

  • Paula Scher

  • Twyla Tharp

The key to your research is a proliferation of references on your subject, particularly interviews, sketchbooks, notebooks, and/or journals or other reflective writing which can give your team insights into the research and design processes of your subject.

Annotated Bibliography

You will write an annotated bibliography as a team. I recommend using google docs to collaboratively write. The bare minimum of sources is five.

Using Purdue OWL Annotated Bibliography Guidelines, summarize, assess, and reflect.

  • The Wikipedia Disclaimer: Nowadays, wikipedia is often the starting point for research – it’s quick, easy, and provides an acceptable overview of many subjects. However, for serious, sustained research Wikipedia should not be relied upon as a primary source. Use Wikipedia to familiarize yourself with your subject and to locate other sources for further research.

You can access NYU’s central library here: http://library.nyu.edu/

You can access NYU Tandon’s Bern Dibner Library here: http://library.poly.edu/

Research Paper

You will write a research paper as a team. I recommend using google docs to collaboratively write.

Research Paper Guidelines:

The paper should be typed in 12-point font, double-spaced with 1 inch margins and 10 pages in length. Cite all references in MLA format. Works cited should be listed as such or as endnotes. Include any images, illustrations, or diagrams at the end of the paper (not counted towards the 10 pages) and reference them accordingly as “Fig. 1” (and so on).

The Wikipedia Disclaimer: Nowadays, wikipedia is often the starting point for research – it’s quick, easy, and provides an acceptable overview of many subjects. However, for serious, sustained research Wikipedia should not be relied upon as a primary source. Use Wikipedia to familiarize yourself with your subject and to locate other sources for further research. You can access NYU’s central library here: http://library.nyu.edu/

You can access NYU Tandon’s Bern Dibner Library here: http://library.poly.edu/

Creative Process Video Documentary

Create a video documenting the creative process of the subject of your research paper. This is not a “documentary” in the traditional sense, this is a video that both documents your chosen creator’s process, and is also an experimental video work in and of itself. This is not about telling the story of how they came to be an artist, designer, or creative technologist; this is about your team telling the story of their process, without a linear narrative.

Your team’s video documentary must be 1 to 3 minutes long and be executed with the utmost care and craftsmanship. Carefully consider such filmic aspects as editing, montage, visual rhythm, supplemental graphics and titles, audio score, storytelling, tone, and point of view

The process documentary will reveal:

  • the discoveries your team made about your subject, and, more specifically how these discoveries will inform or have informed both of your own creative processes, etc.

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