Episode 35: The Templatorization of “Creativity”
The trend toward basing creative endeavors on templates has been a trend for many years, culminating in Hollywood’s use of its history as templates for its current production.
Whether this is a good or bad thing depends on whether you value your personal creativity, or you’re pushing a budget to get a project finished.
Thanks to Curtis Fritsch for editing the show and making us sound intelligent.
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about 4 months ago
Regarding Terence’s contention that so much is unoriginal and a mashup of what came before, I wish to refer you to Kirby Ferguson’s excellent “Everything is a Remix” series: http://www.everythingisaremix.info/
about 4 months ago
Templates do serve to give us common references in visual language though.
Take the dissolve; imagine if you had to come up with a unique way of visually showing the passage of time or space for every film.
It’s so common that no one thinks of it as a template anymore, it’s just a part of film language.
about 4 months ago
I don’t consider language to be templates. That would apply to the language of film also in which a dissolve is part of the language used to communicate.
about 3 months ago
Everything in media has been based on what came before from the beginning, this is nothing new. See the 45 minute video “Pollinate: Chain Reaction”.