When we were deciding what we wanted our
final project to be, I was not excited at all. I had no idea what I wanted to
do and nothing was automatically coming to my mind. I just remember sitting in
class one day and an idea coming to me, but I was still uncomfortable because I
knew nothing about the tool. I just knew I liked whatever it was. I was
stressed and one day I just started talking to my mom about the project. She
told me to show her the video
I saw on Facebook, and I immediately took her to Markus’s page. She looked at
the video with me and noticed a hashtag. When I looked up the hashtag, I found Acapella
Maker.
I began testing the app and others,
and I decided to stick with Acapella as my first option. The first day, I was
so excited I did not take the time to read effectively and it literally took me
three tries just to figure out why what I recorded previously kept playing on
the other videos. The app clearly said, “Do you want to listen to one audio
through all your recordings?” Later it said, “Do you want to play audio while
recording?” I was just pressing yes! Clearly I was having problems, and I made
the mistake of just singing and playing around instead of actually trying what
I had intentions on doing which was sharing my poetry. But for some reason, I
just knew my vision would work out after multiple tries.
The second day I decided to revisit the app,
I knew what I wanted do with my poetry. I originally thought I was going to
pick one of my poems and just break it up into different sections so it would
be two videos of me reciting two parts of my poem. Then, I thought about an
activity my teacher Susanna Rich had my poetry class do. My classmates and I
each took turns reading one line from our poetry back after back which created
a new poem. Inspired by that activity, I thought it would be so cool to take lines
or a line from more than one of my poems and combine them to make another poem.
So, I looked at a couple of my poems, picked out some lines, tweaked some of
them, and I loved the poem that was produced. Now all I had to do was figure
out how I wanted to split the poem up, and my vision would be complete. At least
that is what I thought! After I split the poem up I kept trying to split my poem up with the app and make
it legible, but I could not figure it out. And to be completely honest, in the
process I got so occupied with the final product I just stopped writing and
kept trying. I tried this and this plus a
lot more this’s and I still was not satisfied. Eventually, I just gave up and
realized my original plan might not work with poetry.
I was forced to keep trying, settle, or
just be creative and for the rough draft I decided to settle. I wanted to show
something that I was okay with. I knew that the end result might not be better,
but I was still fixed on trying. I went to class knowing I would have to
dedicate another day to this project.
And on the final day I tried, I just got
really creative. Honestly, I believe God gave me ideas because everything was
just there. I had all the props I needed without having to buy anything. And to say
the end result was not what I originally wanted, I am happy with the aftermath.
I showed my mom the final product,
and she said it was weird and started laughing. I love it, and I just have a
funny feeling that my class will like it as well.
Moreover, presenting my poetry in any type
of way always makes me a little uneasy. I am okay if I present it on my own
terms. Meaning, I do not have to do it for an assignment, and I am sharing it
with people I want to share it with for example my Facebook friends. But, adding
the public makes me more nervous and more critical. In the process, I became
more focused on making things perfect and getting everything to come out the
way I wanted it to. But as each day passes, I am starting to see more and more
that what my teacher in high school said to me was right. I agree with the
popular saying, “Things are not always going to go as planned.” I am learning
to not become completely distraught. I
will not say I regret trying to be creative with this app. I just learned trying
to be creative with an app meant for singing made my task harder, and the
device you use for example a phone or a tablet changes the outcome.
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