1A. Demo and Written answer to: Who influences you as a Creative Person?

Michael Bay: Movie Director

Michael Bay is known for his use of explosions and over the top special effects.  I think this is why I admire him.  I am fascinated by special effects and Mr Bay is one of the best directors to use them.  The video above is a montage of explosions and special effects in multiple films of Bay's work.  In some of Michael Bay's work he uses Tension and Release by having close ups of people talking, then it moves to extreme close ups of them talking causing this tension, and finally "releasing" us back to a normal view.  Contrast and Affinity can be seen in Bay's most recent film Transformers.  The two different types of auto-bots have different colors.  The "good" auto-bots are more colorful and the main bot has the colors of red and blue symbolizing "America's flag/colors".  The "bad" auto-bots are dull and less colorful.  Most of the films that Bay does lean towards Didactic vs Active.  Didactic because Bay uses the explosions and special effects to tell the audience what to think about this film.  If you see someone in the explosion then 9/10 times they are dead, especially if they are not a main character.

Matt Stone and Trey Parker: South Park Creators

Matt Stone and Trey Parker two extremely funny men who created South Park one of my favorite TV shows.  These guys influence my comedy a lot because I love their comedic humor they use through their TV show South Park.  They use Text and Subtext in South Park most of the time.  They have the children of South Park solving all the adult problems in every episode this being just one example of irony.  Irony because the kids are smarter than the adults cause they solve these problems.  At the end of almost every episode they have a little "I've learned something today" moment.  This is where Matt and Trey use more Didactic approach and not Active.  Didactic because they are telling you exactly what to think through what the characters have learned in that specific episode.  The South Park creators use Subjective stories more over Objective.  Most, if not all, of Matt and Trey's work is open to opinion because they use real events in our history.  Those events being bias; therefore, the events are subjective because they are opinion based.

The Blue Scholars: Music

The Blue Scholars are my favorite music group as of right now because they use such great beats and have amazing lyrics to go along with the beats.  Their song 50 Thousand Deep is one of my favorite songs by them.  The song is Subjective more than Objective because I think the Blue Scholars wanted you to have an open mind when it comes to the "riot" described in the song.  That is wasn't a riot but a uprising.  This song is also more Active than Didactic because the audience is suppose to make up their own minds when it comes to the police shooting the crowd/ protest.  The Contrast and Affinity in this song is about the poor and rich within the protest that the singer is in.  How the rich get arrested on purpose while the poor get arrested even though they are not part of the protest.