Creative Problem Solving
Creative Problem Solving
Creative Problem Solving
Fazal portrays a complete secular eutopia that prevails in that region of Gujarat. Fazal also
spins in the projection room like the movie's monarch, mesmerized by the spiritual song
Khwaja Mere Khwaja from Jodha Akbar.
Soon the reality hits Galaxy and Samay. Even here, the director finds a creative way to relate
the inexorable demise of single-screen cinemas with the realm that has irreversibly opened up
for Samay (Ramnath, 2022).
The film reminds the audience about the potential of cinema and amazes and inspires us via
Samay's never-ending curiosity.
2. Brainstorming
In the movie, it was shown that the child artist was able to make a projector-like thing
and for this brainstorming the different things that will be required to make it was
done. He used to observe the projector when he was with Fazil in the backroom of the
theatre and find alternates to the things which were used in it to project the film.
3. Four Ps of creativity
i) People:
Here the main protagonist, Samay builds his relationship with the projector
operator of the theatre Faizal and his friends from his village.
ii) Processes:
He keenly observed the process of projecting the film in the theatre and tried to
apply that process with alternative things.
iii) Place:
In the movie, the place is a poverty-ridden village, and their secret place is the
ghost station. the ghost station was a place that has no visitors, so they started to
collect things and store them there.
iv) Product:
The protagonist was able to create a projector on his own by applying the
observations that he gathered in the backroom of the theatre.
i. Positive emotions
He was mesmerized by the process of making films which was shown in one
of the instances where he was playing with his friends in the village and he
tried to show a man riding bike and his clothes swinging in the air and he
showed this by tying the clothes and on the other end his friends were seeing
through a box which was only showing the upper part so it was perfectly
showing a person riding a bike.
The second instance was the jail scene, he was sent to the juvenile center, as
he robbed the reels from the railway station which was to be distributed in the
big city theatres, but in jail, he found a solution to the no-sound problem of he
is designed projector.
5. Thinking hats
i. White hat: Initially he collected waste match boxes and glass from the
railway tracks which he used to tell stories to his friends. the matchboxes have
pictures on them which he used to connect his storyline. then after discovering
the fact that light is used to project the film, he started finding ways to collect
light.
ii. Yellow hat: He did not fear failure initially when he was not able to catch the
light, he used many ways but was not able to make it but he didn't step back
until he was able to project the film on the white cloth.
iii. Green hat: When the 9-year-old was in the juvenile centre, he used to hear a
lot of different wavelength sounds, and his creative mind thought to use the
sounds as an effect while projecting the movie. Also in the end when he was
going to Rajkot and saw women wearing different colored bangles, his
creative mind thought of the different actors according to the colors as in his
mind the bangles were made from the reels.
iv. Blue hat: When the police arrived at the Chalala station and discovered that
the gang of children have theft the reels, Samay took the charge solely, and
alone went to the juvenile centre.
v. Red Hat: When Faizal Lost his job, the 9-year boy took him to the station
master show so that he can get some work. he understood the emotions and
acted in full faith.
6. 4 C Model
i. ‘Little-c': putting talent into action that is everyday creativity which the
protagonist possesses as he used to find different alternatives to capture the
light.
ii. ‘Mini-c’: expert creativity, by discovering the faults and new perspectives to
problems. in the movie, Samay was able to link the actual projector with his
temporary kind of thing, but both are showing films, quality was different.
7. Divergent thinking
Samay was a divergent thinker, he thought out-of-the-box ideas like capturing the
light and using waste material for making a projector-like thing. He discovered many
ways through which he can make the reels run and at last, he was able to make it.
When Faizal called Samay and asked him to come urgently to the Galaxy theatre then
despite no train at that time he managed to reach there with the help of friends. They
used a Baggie on the rail track and were able to reach it in time.
References
Ramnath, N. (2022, october). scroll. Retrieved from scroll.in: https://scroll.in/reel/1034796/last-film-
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