So at the beginning he gave us a talk about the two days...
A presentation of clear concise & thinking problem solving!
As good as we can make it. Spend more time thinking outside the box.
Do something pointless for an hour, then present it tomorrow.
This is a learning opportunity, no right or wrong.
Document - key think it to show how pointless your task is... Its not about work. You need to tell a story developing a narrative to show how successfully pointless is. Don't explain what you've done! Why have you done it? Why am I been asked to do this? What does the client really want.
Making or breaking the brief.
Why do they want what they want?
How far do they want to go?
If you break the brief, you need to make sure its of value to the client.
5 min presentation.
Any documentation.
Pointless task
Documentation - Can be anything.
Presentation - Always the most important.
In the presentation you should start at the end. This is what it does & this is how I got there.
Don't make them wait for the punch line! Let them listen to the rest of the info relating back to the punch line.
If you have doubts about conveying this message clearly then you need to rethink!
Thinking helps focus creativity.
Documentation needs to convey an interesting way of other show how pointless your task is.
Write a song
Infographics
Short Film
Concertina
Examples of pointless task.
-Cutting grass with scissors - stop frame - grass cellotaped to a book. This is pointless because you would never be able to cut it all.
-Press the return key as fast as he could - recorded self - bleeding on the paper.
Don't get nothing out of it..
Need to think about how well you could document it.
Interesting presentation.
Pointless has no value to you.
(Jump up & down) Unless you was a trampolina
Generating content.
Interesting way to document.
Numbers are good.
Pencil Sharpening - telling audience make the think - had 100 box of pencils but only got through 9.
How many trees in a pencil?
How many trees in a rainforest?
How many pencils to get to moon?
Nothings pointless, don't over think it.
Creative block - best way to solve a problem is that you can't solve then solve another problem.
What can I do in 1 hour?
How can you plan your time?
Then we went away and started deciding what we was going to do...
I made a mind map of ideas I had.
My favourite was the hole punching or drawing a circle over & over again in the same spot.
I really wanted to drive somewhere to see how far i could get in one hour and see if I could get back but I think this idea has gone past the point of the 1 hour pointless task.
So I went to go get a book from the library that I could buy so that I could destroy it. I liked this idea because then the book would become pointless and therefore wouldn't suit its purpose as half of the words would be missing.
Then I decided how I could document this process, I decided that I would have the circles from the to be pointless book & also if I videoed it I could see how it developed just incase I forgot got inspirations from it afterwards. Mainly as backup...
When starting the task the pen went through the pages very easily & I worried that the book would run out before my hour, but then as I got further down the book and the pages wasn't flicking out any more and the whole process was so much slower, the pen broke 3 times and it was carving creating ash rather than cutting the pages....
The book had different types of paper in as half way through it has photo pages. This obviously had an effect on the timescale of getting though the book, which was a good thing as then I didn't run out of pages.
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