What is Mind Mapping?
Simply put, it is pictorial representation of your goal that you map ('build') in your mind.
For example as kids, in pre-school, I was taught about an elephant. The teacher said an elephant has a big body, large ears, a trunk that hangs from its head to almost it's knees, has four legs that are thick, has two tusks and has a short tail. Many kids, including me, were confused, is it like a dinosaur; just then the teacher pulled out a picture and showed to us & we all gasped, "Ah! so that's an elephant".
As we grow in life, we find that the information to use to accomplish tasks, goals; increases with each passing day. To elaborate further, have you ever studied a subject or brainstormed an idea, only to find yourself with pages of information, but no clear view of how it fits together?
Mind Mapping! All successful people in life, have at some point or the other used Mind Maps to achieve their goals! In fact, most of them have a Mind Map pinned right in front at their work-desk!
Mind Mapping is a useful technique that helps you learn more effectively, improves the way you record information and enhances problem solving. By using Mind Maps, you can quickly identify and understand the structure of a subject. You can see the way pieces of information fit together.
More than this, Mind Maps help you remember information, as they are in a format that is easy to recall and quick to review.
As per popular belief Mind Maps were popularized by Tony Buzan. They use a two-dimensional structure, instead of the list format conventionally used to take notes. Mind Maps are much more compact than conventional notes, often taking up one side of paper.
Mind Mapping helps break large information into manageable chunks, so that you can plan effectively without forgetting something important. A good Mind Map shows the "shape" of the subject, the relative importance of individual points, and the way in which facts relate to one another.
Mind Maps are useful for:
• Brainstorming – individually, and as a group.
• Summarizing information, and note taking.
• Consolidating information from different research sources.
• Thinking through complex problems.
• Presenting information in a format that shows the overall structure of your subject.
• Studying and memorizing information.
Drawing Mind Maps for Cinema
Mind Maps can be drawn for your specific profession; here we will discuss mind maps to be drawn for career as a film-professional - be it director, actor, cinematographer, editor or any other vocation in the craft of cinema.
1. Draw a circle and Write your vocation (actor, director, cinematographer, writer, etc.) inside it.
2. Draw lines out from this circle, to write (or label) sub-headings (or important facts that relate to your career).
3. As you go 'further' in your career and uncover another level of information, bifurcate the lines drawn out of the circle, into further lines for more subheadings (or labels).
A workshop on developing the skills w.r.t. Cinema & Media Industry is available in all contact classes of Film-Educator, Amit Agarwal, worldwide
