The creative process, underlying all parts of the artistic career of Baz Luhrmann, worldly renowned Australian director, has roots in various creative theories, but can be found most similar to the one recognized by the theorist and artist David Usher. For the last two decades, the few works produced by Baz Luhrmann have shocked and at the same time captured audiences with their pure, different and untypical view of the cinema (from Strictly Ballroom (1992) to Great Gatsby (2013)), therefore raising questions about the processes that the director undertakes in order to achieve this level of creativity (IMDb). In his book Let the Elephants Run: Unlock Your Creativity and Change Everything, David Usher talks about different fundamentals of creative
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Both Baz Luhrmann and David Usher are personas involved in a diverse range of creative activities, with the former doing theatre, advertising, acting, music creation and painting and the latter undertaking music, writing and other creative endeavors (Cook 2-13). This diversification and the idea of combining art forms is one of the main reasons why Baz’s creative steps for each production fit very well with the theories of David Usher. They both believe in some way or another that creative adventure happens to be their life but requires time, structure and freedom ("A CREATIVE ADVENTURE."; Usher 22-23,33). …show more content…
Although Baz is a visionary and sees ideas in images, filling of these ideas is an essential part of his creativity development, whether it’s written notes in Filofax or collages in Photoshop (Wallace). With David’s idea of finding creative time each day and using any kind of source to put them together resembles a lot the director’s theory of cultivating possible creativity “before … inspiration strikes”, while sustaining work-life balance (Wallace). However, the very inspiration behind Baz’s work comes from all sorts of places – travels, books, plays, traditional opera or even his loyal muse, partner and wife Catherin Martin (Lyman; Wallace). More than that, the very notion of idea development includes methodology and process, although a different one for each particular person. The thing that David does not go over in closer look is passion. For Baz, the first question that he asks himself while reviewing an idea is: “Will it feed my own [Baz Luhrmann’s] life?”. If the answer is “yes”, idea always becomes an obsession, and his research sometimes goes into extremes. For example, for the theatre production of La Boheme (2002), his creative team went to Italy to actually live the “life of the piece” and visit operas and research the original productions (Brantley; Cook; Wallace). This,
Both Baz Luhrmann and David Usher are personas involved in a diverse range of creative activities, with the former doing theatre, advertising, acting, music creation and painting and the latter undertaking music, writing and other creative endeavors (Cook 2-13). This diversification and the idea of combining art forms is one of the main reasons why Baz’s creative steps for each production fit very well with the theories of David Usher. They both believe in some way or another that creative adventure happens to be their life but requires time, structure and freedom ("A CREATIVE ADVENTURE."; Usher 22-23,33). …show more content…
Although Baz is a visionary and sees ideas in images, filling of these ideas is an essential part of his creativity development, whether it’s written notes in Filofax or collages in Photoshop (Wallace). With David’s idea of finding creative time each day and using any kind of source to put them together resembles a lot the director’s theory of cultivating possible creativity “before … inspiration strikes”, while sustaining work-life balance (Wallace). However, the very inspiration behind Baz’s work comes from all sorts of places – travels, books, plays, traditional opera or even his loyal muse, partner and wife Catherin Martin (Lyman; Wallace). More than that, the very notion of idea development includes methodology and process, although a different one for each particular person. The thing that David does not go over in closer look is passion. For Baz, the first question that he asks himself while reviewing an idea is: “Will it feed my own [Baz Luhrmann’s] life?”. If the answer is “yes”, idea always becomes an obsession, and his research sometimes goes into extremes. For example, for the theatre production of La Boheme (2002), his creative team went to Italy to actually live the “life of the piece” and visit operas and research the original productions (Brantley; Cook; Wallace). This,