Here is the link to my Recording. :http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pn7svo5TOaE

The Beatles Here Comes The Sun

For this assignment, I choose Elvis-Hound Dog for the 50′s song and The Beatles Here Comes The Sun for the 60′s song. The assignment is to compare 2 different songs from the 50′s and the 60′s and analyze the difference. I chose these songs because there are both very familiar and famous. Elvis representing the 50′s and The Beatles representing the 60′s. I personally like these 2 songs and it was very interesting to compare these famous songs.

Fist the “Hound Dog”. From the beginning I could already tell that this songs is very up tempo and up beat. A very classical rock tempo to it. Lyrically, this songs has many repetition. Almost the whole song is covered by the chorus. In fact the all the lyrics were repeated. I thought they were simple. This song is a 12 bar blues structure. The background instruments were guitars, drums and keyboard.  there were  instrumental interlude solos in between the song, which continued about 25 seconds. The structure was basically simple. Druming on point along with clear vocals. This song is very catchy. This could be the reason why this song was very famous in the 50′s.

The next song is “Here Comes The Sun”. From the beginning already a big difference. The tempo is very is slow and not up beat. This gives a different feel to the song, like relaxed or calm. The lyrics are vocally sang slowly and calmly. Repetition was again used in this song too. The instruments were guitars and drums. There was a solo instrument part half way through the song.  The form was Intro, verse, bridge, chorus, solo section and then ending. The structure is vert similar to modern music these days.

By looking at these 2 comparisons you could tell that the rock styles changed over the years. From up beat to maybe slower and calmer. Both songs were very famous which means that the those type of genre was liked in the 50′s and the 60′s. The structure did not have a huge change but the tempo did. As I already mentioned those 2 songs have opposite tempo. Lyrically there were similar as in repetition but in the 50′s it was more simple. Through out the years, there were more thoughts put in to lyrics. From these comparisons I could tell the music change over time, in lyrics and tempo.

For the 2nd unit in Art, we experimented with Cartooning and Adobe Illustrator. The teacher choose a font for us and we had to draw a cartoon based on the font. We used adobe illustrator to finalize our cartoons. Overall I really enjoyed this Unit.

(The picture to the left is my final drawing)

So my font was “Chalk Duster“. I felt like this was one of the easier ones since I already had a basic idea of this font. When I thought of Chalk, I imagined a old teacher and thats what I drew for my final. I tried to portray the stereotypical old teacher. I consider that I captured most of the things that a old teach would have. Examples, Suit, Grey Hair, Glasses, thick eyebrows with mustaches. Not only I tried to capture the physical parts of the character but the feel of it to. That could be the stance or the facial expression. To “write a picture”, you have to portray the character from its looks or personalities. Portraying the looks of the font was easy for me, but the it was hard to show the characteristics of the character. For the characteristics, I changed the pose, facial expression and also I added a background setting. The background setting was a chalkboard.

In my design, I had strengths and weaknesses. The strength for me was the posture of the character. I made it pointing something and its other hand writing something on the Chalk Board. I think that helped the design by adding more than just the face or the clothes. It added more detail and a vivid idea of the character. I feel I could of improved on the face design with more experimentations. I didn’t experiment much with the facial parts or the facial expressions. If I did, I think it would of been more detailed.

I could also develop and improve on my artistic processes. I didn’t research about my font as much as I should of been. Since my font was self explanatory, I came up with ideas really fast. I did eventually finish the project well, but I should of spent more time researching for further developments of details. If my font was something really unfamiliar I would be stuck during the process, but since my font was easy to me I was lucky. So I consider that I have to be more prepared and use my time efficiently to every detail.

Stereo Types definitely aided when I was creating my character. We didn’t have a picture, we started off with a font. Without stereotypes there would of been huge problems while making the characters. The only way to expand my ideas towards the font is to think up with stereo types and use it beneficially for the facial expression, clothing and posture. Thinking in a more general way, without stereo types there would be no characteristics in individuals. The characters are made from its stereo types.Thats what makes individuals unique. Stereo Types are a way to recognize and consider what that individual has. I feel like stereo types really helped me with this project.

Overall, I really enjoyed this unit. It was fun. I had some strengths and weaknesses, areas that I could improve and how to utilize stereo types when making a character. I learned quite a lot of things during this unit.

2) In a lot of my subjects I have ups and down. Bad days and good days. Days I do good, I contribute and listen in class and I produce good work. On the other hand, there are days where I don’t pay full contribution. My goal is to work efficiently in all subjects.

3) During the semesters my attendance wasn’t very good. I was late on somedays and my total tardy was 11. I think I could improve on this by being more organized.

4) I generally want to work on my attitude in school. Attitude could be, doing well in class work, participating in more, taking teachers advices and being more motivated. If I can achieve all of these goals, I will surely have a nice semester.

June 11th by David Lehman: Kentos poetry presentation was easy to connect to. When the poem is something that connects with your life it really makes us audience easy to understand the theme. Besides all of the presentation skills, I thought the themes and the comparison he made was good. He told us a real life story comparing it to the poem which is one of the ways to describe the poem. I thought he was knowledgeable towards the poem which is very important. Some people just know the meaning of the poem but, poem has more than meanings. It has messages. As long as you know the message that the poem wants to send, I think you are fine. Overall counting the presentational skills and the actual analyzing skills he did a good job.

Henning(Blogs@yis.ac.jp/17Kvillerudg)

“To help the monkey cross the river” by Thomas Lux: The poem itself was very funny and entertaining. He had a nice comparison with the poem to emphasize the theme and the meaning. His presentational skills were very good including, composure, speech and his posture. Generally I liked the poem itself, and overall a great effort.

Hemanth(blogs.yis.ac.jp/17Aroumougamh/)

Bad Day by Kay Ryan- Again the poem was easy to relate to. Nice choose of poem. The title itself was attracting, and the poem itself to. He put a detailed analyzation about the poem including literary features too which not every body did. His approach to the speech looked like he was prepared. Overall a good effort and great presentation.

Markus(Blogs@yis.ac.jp/17Muim)

Fast break” by Edward Hisrch: This one was my favorite poem. I love sorts related poems since you can feel the vibe and the feeling. I like how movements are described and metaphored. I could relate to this poem easily since basketball is one of my favorite sports. Markus put in analyzation and a nice comparison with his own poem. Making a own poem is not the easy job. Overall a nice presentation and keeper me interested.

Here is my link to my shelfari

http://www.shelfari.com/o1515167958/shelf

The skill I used were gestures and vocal skills. The character I was suppose to be was a non interested, kind of mean person so I tried to use less ranges of facial expressions and eye contact. As you can see in the video I didn’t change to tone or the facial expressions through out the video.

How did I approach creating the character?

I wanted to create a character who does not change his feelings from the start to the end. Since its a non interested weightier I thought it would match. I used the skills I mentioned before to stay in the character.

Was it successful- if so how? What needed improvement? Make a suggestion?

I thought I was pretty successful since I wanted to be the character I performed. I used the skills I had to, and it worked well. But there were some points I could of improved. For example, some how I could of drew more attention from the audience since it was a little boring.

How can I use these skills in performance?

I hope to use these techniques in the near future. Speech is captured in many topics so I think it was beneficial

Here is my video

8C Drama: Character Formative from YIS Arts on Vimeo.

Investigation is the first process of the design cycle. In the investigation I learned a lot of things about presenting. We discussed to get a brief idea of what a good and bad presentation has. I think I could of improved at more been cooperative with all these discussions because I was more on the listening side more than the talking side. Overall I wasn’t detailed with my notes. Later on the unit, I stated realizing that investigating is really important than all the other process expect for the Create. The information I took on investigation in something you could base on later on.

In the design we did a lot of notes and comparing and researching. We had this part where we had to compare 3 presentation tools. I picked the similar ones which was keynote, powerpoint and Prezi. I think I could of maybe researched some completely different tools since I would of known a variety of presentation tools. Well I am not completely regretting choosing those 3 since it wasn’t bad, but I think I could of improved.

In the planing we made our storyboards. I think mine was a little too general. I think I could of made better pictures and more detailed notes and pointers. The plan is also very important because it also judges how much you next strep will be easier and smoother.

And the Create. The create process we just make our slides. I made few slides for the first one since the first slide can spend on how your audiences are going to react. I wanted to make it simple but not too much. I wanted to emphasize the title so I made the text stand out. Every slide I tried to make it unique and interesting. I got a lot of inspirations from sample slideshows that was on the art wiki. It was fun overall making the slides but I could of improved on things. Things like adding more time into the slides.

Last but not least the presenting. Overall I presented well and I am not regretting the presentation. Things I could improve on were, Speaking more smoothly, maybe slide designs and stance. This was a serious presentation and we didn’t have many things like this in the previous years but I think it was a good start.