![]() I was looking over this document of all my research and reflections and thought about how I didn’t actually like how I am just using Google documents to record all of my thinking and research. I looked around and different ways to put all of my things in one place, and I saw that I could make a website. This way I could upload my blogs posts and research, but also have different pages to post my covers of songs and link everything to it. This can also be part of the ‘branding’ that I am doing, because this website can show my style and I am able to incorporate the photos that I want and everything that comes under ‘my brand’.
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While I was back home, all the relatives, other IB kids not at NIST, or any people I know outside of NIST were interested in what my topic was and asked me all about it. In this, I learnt that being able to properly articulate my project and product is really important. I feel that each time I had to explain it I got better and better at saying what I want to do and how I will go about doing it. This was probably the best thing that could’ve happened to me in the long run, because, somehow it had made it more clear to myself about what I wanted to do and why I was doing it. I realize that this is more that just a product, that it can actually really help me with what I want to achieve in life, not just PP.
![]() After realizing at my second meeting that I was a bit behind I took some time to reflect and complete my plan. However, I realize that have gone a bit off track from what I actually want to look into. I feel like this quite often happens to me, and that it is probably partly because I have not explained myself clearly. I think this is an area I would like to develop during my project. I went back to the beginning and thought it all out again. I realised that when I am explaining what I want to do, I have been using the word style, but that perhaps this is not precise enough. I want to find out about myself ‘style’ as an artist, but I am realizing that the word for this is probably more branding. I want my cover choices, my outfits, my artwork etc to all express this specific ‘brand’ of me by the end of it. I am gaining more understanding of my project through realising this. I met with Mr Jesse to ask him how to reset my personal project. He explained that I could revisit the plan and my research stage and then clearly reword my goal. Once I have done this, I can meet with my supervisor again to ‘redo’ meeting 2. Today I met with my supervisor for the first time. To set up this meeting, I emailed Ms. Stephanie to set up a meeting and asked her what time would be good for her to meet. I met her on day C advisory, since that’s the time we are allowed to have, and also because she was free on that time.
When I met with her, we talked about my topic choice, global context and went through the rubric together. She informed me of some things that will happen when other teachers grade my report and product, how I will need to make things very clear and meet each bullet point on the rubric very clearly, so that I can score the highest. This type of information is very useful for me, she’s telling me things I wouldn’t have known otherwise.
Your topic, goal, and global context and justifications for why you chose them I’ve gone and had my topic selection meeting with Mr. Jesse. In that meeting, I brought this very broad topic, which was that I wanted to sort of figure out who I am as an artist, so the aim of the meeting was to narrow down that to a specific topic. After throwing around quite a few ideas, we came to the conclusion that my goal for the Personal Project will be to express myself musically through original compositions and/or remixes and adaptations. I chose this because it keeps everything quite open. How I want to work towards that goal isn’t set in stone. Maybe it’s researching about different styles of music or how to remix a song. Maybe it’s learning more about songwriting, the possibilities are endless for me. I also chose this because I love music and I always want to know more about it. I wanted a chance to take all the skills I’ve learnt already and further them through a project. My global context I have chosen will be Personal and Cultural Expression, more specifically only personal expression, because my goal is based around me finding out who I am as a musician or artist and how I can express myself musically. See Academic Honesty form. |
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