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Weekly Reflection (What, So What, Now What, Peer to Peer Feedback & Transafarable Skills)?
As a prior class activity for this week, I personally decided to contact my peers through whatsapp and request their feedback on my learning journal for week 8. The reason behind this choice was due to the fact that I decided to improve and reflect on the feedback provided previously and add more interactive media throughout my learning journal. Upon the feedback provided by my peers, I can now say that my learning journal is completed. The reason being is due to the fact that all reflective practices are now able to be shown within my journals and the use of interactive media to keep the readers' attention is also present. The same comment was also made by my professor upon reviewing my work.
As a set pre-class activity, we were required to reflect on the way in which we as individuals brainstorm and keep track of our ideas. The way in which I personally brainstorm and keep track of ideas and progress development is through discussions with people within SAE and around the world. The way in which their ideas are tracked is through the project three pages that can be found under the AIM110 tab on this website. Personally, I find it convinient to keep all work and SAE-related project work in one centralised place so that when it comes to the reflection dates, everything is in the same space.
This lecture was designed to be a reflection of familiar and unfamiliar pieces of music that reflect a specific type of emotion.My role was to identify these echoes and how they are reflected throughout one project or presentation of music. The tracks on which we were expected to discuss what emations were being conveyed were as follows:
Prayers for Mexico
The Devil is Fine-Zeal & Ardor
At first, I personally found it difficult to reflect on these two pieces of music as I was not familiar with them and had never heard of this artist prior to this lesson, but through group discussions, I was able to gather a clearer understanding. The aim of this lesson was to prepare us to be able to achieve our best in Project Three and to give us an opportunity to learn about the ways in which emotions can be expressed in a variety of ways.
Our professor provided us with a set of broken down criterion as a reference point, which will aid us in understanding our project 3 task.The provided criteria were as follows:
What techniques can you use to evoke a certain feeling or emotion (grief, joy, resentment, happiness,...)?
What are the conventions/musical patterns and properties for generating certain feelings through sound/music?
What are the emotions and feelings that you would like to convey to your audience, in project 3?
How are you going to make that?
I personally feel like this lesson was educational and interesting. However, I feel like we should have spent more time reflecting on each other's ideas and providing each other with constructive feedback on each of their chosen ideas for project three. This would allow us to gain further understanding of the project and what we will be achieving.
My next steps, in order to succeed with my reflective practice and project three, are to reflect on and finalize my project choice and research people with whom I can collaborate to make it real and possible to create. I will also encourage you to speak to other students within your course and the film industry to come up with creative ideas and get their opinions on my chosen idea. I will also be looking to develop a plan B in case my current project ideas do not fit the brief and the chosen emulation of which I am trying to achieve.
In terms of this week's transafarable skills, I personally feel like it is quite challenging to reflect on as this week's session was simply undesunderstand examples of different types of music that are out on the wider web and how they are able to communicate emotions and feelings. It is difficult for me to consider this as a transferable skill, but I believe we could classify it as reflective practice because we were required to reflect on our chosen project piece and how we will communicate an emation.
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Center for Democratic Culture. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://cdclv.unlv.edu/pragmatism/wiley_emo_film.pdf
McAfee, R. (2020, April 7). 7 ways to use music to create mood and meaning onscreen. Pond5 Blog. Retrieved from https://blog.pond5.com/12233-7-ways-to-use-music-to-create-mood-and-meaning-onscreen/
Rothstein, A. (2021, May 5). What are some elements of musical expression? IPR. Retrieved 2021, from https://www.ipr.edu/blogs/audio-production/what-are-some-elements-of-musical-expression/
Staff, N. F. S. (2020, September 16). Here's how music can add meaning to your film. No Film School. Retrieved from https://nofilmschool.com/heres-how-music-can-add-meaning-your-film
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