Week 1
Oct 9, 2020
During this week I have been fixing up my website and adding on more to it as I go, I have also begun my research for my music inquiry. Along with my research, I have emailed someone with knowledge of this topic to help me further understand what I am doing. The professional who I emailed is a movie director, play director, and a vocal coach.
During this week I have been fixing up my website and adding on more to it as I go, I have also begun my research for my music inquiry. Along with my research, I have emailed someone with knowledge of this topic to help me further understand what I am doing. The professional who I emailed is a movie director, play director, and a vocal coach.
Week 2
Oct 16, 2020
This week I have been exploring different apps to use for my music inquiry project, playing around with each one trying to find what works best for me. I have also been researching how other people write songs and comparing that to the way I make songs to see if I can improve my song writing technique and try a new way to approach it to see if that will spark any new ideas for my songs. |
Week 3
Oct 23, 2020
This week I have been creating and editing videos to try and explain my song writing process. I have also been trying to write new songs by using a different song writing process. Because I am using a different method, it is taking me much longer to create the songs because I am not used this way of making songs and I have to figure out how their method works and apply it to my songs. After attempting song writing with the other process, I have decided to try and mix the two writing techniques (my writing technique and the other one that I researched) together. |
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Week 4
Oct 30, 2020
During my class time at home, I have been adding more to my songs and trying new things to expand the amount of viewers I will get to share my music with by, sponsoring my YouTube channel on social media, creating a Facebook account and a facebook page, and I have also done some facebook live with playing my original songs (kind of like an online performance). Ever since I did the facebook live, I have been getting non stop friend requests which shows that more people are viewing my songs. Another thing that I completed at home is, I set up a call with a professional musician to help me figure out how I can get my songs heard and what careers I could have if I choose to follow along this path in the future. I have been using my class time in school to do research on how to create a documentary (my end project) and I have been planning out the layout of how I want it to look. |
Week 5
Nov 6, 2020
This week, I have been editing together the facebook lives that I have done so I can upload it onto my YouTube page. This week I have also found an old friend who shares the same interest in music with me and he put together a background track to go along with one of my songs, so I can record myself singing along with it. Another thing that I did was, I have started writing two new songs (and I’m almost done with one of them!!). |
Week 6
Nov 13, 2020
This week at home I have finished one of my songs and I’m almost done with another one. I have also been playing around with the background track for one of my songs that someone made for me and seeing what the best way to sing along with it is. At school I finished editing together the facebook lives and I upload part one of three to YouTube. Something else I did was, I signed up to audition on Americas got talent for tomorrow, Saturday Nov 14 on zoom(there is still a chance that I wont be even able to be seen by them because there are so many people who are auditioning and they can’t get to everyone). The reason I signed up to audition is because AGT would be a good way to get more people to hear my songs. |
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Week 7
Nov 20, 2020
I started this week by wanting to write a song that was sad enough to make people cry every time they heard it, so I created a list of things that would make people really sad and I put all of that together into a song... the end result is amazing! (I will probably record that song soon and upload it on YouTube) Later in the week, I uploaded a post to Facebook and instagram asking for other peoples ideas that I can incorporate into my songs (something that means the most to them or something in the world that they feel is overlooked that they think people should be aware of). Some people chose message me privately and others just wrote it as a public comment right on the post. I compiled all of their ideas on a list and I started going through and brainstorming how I could put each one into a song. I also started putting together some clips for my documentary. |
Week 8
Nov 25, 2020
This week, I made and preformed a Christmas song (the performance was in front of a couple people on thanksgiving). I have also been getting more people to share some of their ideas with me and I have been collecting those to put together into some different songs. Another thing I did was, I started writing down some of the main things that I want to include in my documentary. |
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Week 9
December 4, 2020
This week I have been looking at the list that I made last week and I have been adding footage to my documentary that covers each point. I have also been adding more to that list (things that I may have missed) and I have been editing the videos that I have already added. Something else I have been doing was, attempting to write a song using the ideas that I have collected from others. |
Week 10
December 11, 2020
My main focus for this week was working on my documentary by adding more videos, editing my videos, and figuring out what key points that I am missing that I may want to include in the documentary. Along with working on my documentary, I also played all of my old songs to see what ways I could fix them up to makes them sound better. I have also been attempting to write more songs, but I have hit another one of my writers blocks (when this happens I can usually start writing a new song, but I am never able finish it) |
Week 11
December 18, 2020
During this week I have been working on finding and editing videos to put in my documentary and planning out how I want to get my information across in my video (I was thinking of doing a voice over and some clips of me talking). Along with working on my documentary I decided it was time to explore a different one of my inquiries, career search. What career I decided to try out was modeling because I enjoy dressing up and posing for pictures. I was given the chance to model for an apartment complex because my mom’s old boss recommended me for the photo shoot and I said yes because it would be a great opportunity to see what it is like to model. |
Week 12
Jan 8, 2021
This week I finished the script for my documentary and planned out how I am going to film the parts that are needed to be filmed. I have also been working on the presentation portion of my end results by creating a slideshow. Another thing that I've been working on is answering the self reflection questions. |