Reflection
During this project, I learnt many new aspects of life. The main ones were how to manage my time, and thinking critically. Composing a song might seem easy for many people but it is a thousands of small things to work on in order to get to a high quality product. While composing a song and recording it, many things can go wrong. You can catch a flu, therefore you cannot sing; don’t have inspiration, therefore cannot start on composing; break your hand, you cannot play any instruments; the recordings fail, you have to re-record everything. This small things can cause your entire project to be late of a few weeks. Furthermore, my project wasn’t only about composing a song but also about understanding many aspects of bullying. How can I make my message pass? How can I know that people actually understood and took in consideration the message? I challenged my thinker profile in order to get to the final product, and a lot of time managing was done too making sure to consider the fact that some deadlines won’t be achieved due to some small issues and obstacles.
I was extremely successful in meeting my goals for this project.. All of these results show the quality of my song and even experts qualified my song as “successful” and “high potential”.
I was extremely successful in meeting my goals for this project.. All of these results show the quality of my song and even experts qualified my song as “successful” and “high potential”.
During this process I challenged myself and developed many ATLs. The two main important ones are management skills and thinking skills. Management skills was an important one because composing a song has to have deadlines. You have to plan exactly all of the steps you need to tale as well as adding some time for common mistakes. As an example, a singer knows that they need one more week or two before the due date of recording bit because recording doesn’t go perfectly after the some time. Singers always need to come back to the studio and re record. Therefore, I learnt how to plan, meet deadlines, set challenging goals and use appropriate strategies for organising complex information (Planning). Lastly, I developed my thinking skills and finding solutions when facing challenges. As an example, I got sick for two weeks, which affected me. Some days I couldn’t work because my voice was gone. But I thought and focused on other aspects of my projects such as the video making and the bracelets. After small challenges forced me to think, once I faced bigger ones I managed to solve them easily using my thinking skills (PJ9).
Composing a song gave me the opportunity to explore different varieties of musics and ways of expressing myself by using different instruments and combining them. However, this project helped me learn the impact music can have on the World. I researched about how music impacted people in the past and found that the impact of the Beatles, my favorite band, on the Soviet Union. I then decided to analyzed it and made a 5 minute podcast answering the question “how was music used as a communication tool during the Cold War” which was my question in Humanities class (PJ4). Additionally I learnt a lot about bullying, and the amount of students that suffer of this type of harassment. It feels worse, once you experienced the situation, to read about that and remember all of the horrible moments you went through. I specifically want to learn more about this topic and this is why I am going to be following a bullying class, talking about the reasons of why a kid bullies and different ways of preventing it.
There are two main points about my project. The first one is the importance of raising awareness regarding this topic. The second one is the difficulty to achieve it. There are many judgements about art and how it is useless and not needed. Studying in a university relate to art can be seen as: “She sucks at school and therefore has to study art”. The power of art is undermined. But how do we all express ourselves? Everyone has a different way of expressing themselves. We express ideas all in different ways. Many of these ways are part of the umbrella “art”. Raising awareness about bullying is important. It is an important topic that we have to acknowledge. As shown in my research (PJ1), a huge amount of people suffer of this type of harassment. How can I impact my school in order for the to change and acknowledge this type of harassment? Well, this depends on the way we express ideas and the ways we reflect on our creativity. Composing a song is a different way of approaching an issue. It is different than having a class of 20 students and talking about the argued problem. Creativity of expression is important in order to have an effective way of making a message circulate.
The difficulty; however, is the complexity for people to actually change their everyday routines and start maybe doing things that might not be beneficial to them and that might be challenging. If raising awareness and making change was easy, the World wouldn’t have these types of issues and the amount of conflict we nowadays have.
To bring this project to an overall conclusion, while going through complications, achievements, moments of joy and moments of complete stress, I genuinely enjoyed this project because it helped me develop new skills on my personal passions. This project will be taken a bit further because I would like to add a baseline and live recorded drums. I also would like to re record the song in a studio in order to get the best quality. Furthermore, a turkish producer heard my song and is interested in having a contract. This is not a planned process because I do have to think about the situation and arrangement. He would like to use the song in his DJ tablets and sell it, therefore I have to make sure the rights of authors are kept in order for me to be able to benefit from it. If this song could go around the world, it would be an amazing achievement for me.
Composing a song gave me the opportunity to explore different varieties of musics and ways of expressing myself by using different instruments and combining them. However, this project helped me learn the impact music can have on the World. I researched about how music impacted people in the past and found that the impact of the Beatles, my favorite band, on the Soviet Union. I then decided to analyzed it and made a 5 minute podcast answering the question “how was music used as a communication tool during the Cold War” which was my question in Humanities class (PJ4). Additionally I learnt a lot about bullying, and the amount of students that suffer of this type of harassment. It feels worse, once you experienced the situation, to read about that and remember all of the horrible moments you went through. I specifically want to learn more about this topic and this is why I am going to be following a bullying class, talking about the reasons of why a kid bullies and different ways of preventing it.
There are two main points about my project. The first one is the importance of raising awareness regarding this topic. The second one is the difficulty to achieve it. There are many judgements about art and how it is useless and not needed. Studying in a university relate to art can be seen as: “She sucks at school and therefore has to study art”. The power of art is undermined. But how do we all express ourselves? Everyone has a different way of expressing themselves. We express ideas all in different ways. Many of these ways are part of the umbrella “art”. Raising awareness about bullying is important. It is an important topic that we have to acknowledge. As shown in my research (PJ1), a huge amount of people suffer of this type of harassment. How can I impact my school in order for the to change and acknowledge this type of harassment? Well, this depends on the way we express ideas and the ways we reflect on our creativity. Composing a song is a different way of approaching an issue. It is different than having a class of 20 students and talking about the argued problem. Creativity of expression is important in order to have an effective way of making a message circulate.
The difficulty; however, is the complexity for people to actually change their everyday routines and start maybe doing things that might not be beneficial to them and that might be challenging. If raising awareness and making change was easy, the World wouldn’t have these types of issues and the amount of conflict we nowadays have.
To bring this project to an overall conclusion, while going through complications, achievements, moments of joy and moments of complete stress, I genuinely enjoyed this project because it helped me develop new skills on my personal passions. This project will be taken a bit further because I would like to add a baseline and live recorded drums. I also would like to re record the song in a studio in order to get the best quality. Furthermore, a turkish producer heard my song and is interested in having a contract. This is not a planned process because I do have to think about the situation and arrangement. He would like to use the song in his DJ tablets and sell it, therefore I have to make sure the rights of authors are kept in order for me to be able to benefit from it. If this song could go around the world, it would be an amazing achievement for me.