For this project, I chose making covers of songs and recording an original because I want to go into recording arts as my career and I’ve always been interested in recording music. From my research process, I learned that there are a lot of components to recording even just one instrument. The research helped me with my project because I learned a lot about recording and the different types of recording you can accomplish.
For collaboration, I worked with Julianne. We partnered up for this project because we both wanted to do pretty much the same thing, which was work in the studio and record music. The collaboration was very successful because we work very well together and both have very different ideas, but they go well together. We have slightly different music tastes, so it was good for me to learn about recording with a variety of music.
If I could do my project over, I would manage my time better. There was a point in the project where we didn’t really do much because we were so ahead of schedule, and we didn’t think we had to do much else with our project. We got all the recording and mixing done with, so all we had left were the lyric videos, and we still had about 2 months left of project time, and we took a little break because we knew that the lyric videos wouldn’t take too long to make.
I feel like I improved the most with the 21st century skill of creativity, because I was very open to new ideas during this project and explored things I hadn’t done before. I improved the least with the visual component of the 21st century skills because the lyric videos I made weren’t extremely visually appealing. I could have done more effects, but I ended up just doing simple ones. I guess if you’re going for a simple video, that’s fine, but personally I wish I had done more.
I will definitely use the recording experience that I had in the studio in my future, because I’m planning on going into recording arts, and this experience will help tremendously. There’s definitely a ton of things I need to learn, but this will give me a good head start.
I feel like I innovated my education this semester very well because I learned a lot of things I didn’t know before, and I’m very proud of that. I could have done something completely different that I wasn’t passionate about, but that wouldn’t have given me a good experience for my last big project at Freestyle.
I value this project a lot because I want t go into recording arts as my career, and this definitely helped me out with getting a head start on that part of my education. The project was really fun for me, and I’m very happy I did what I did for it.