Blog 15: Indepemdemt Component 2 Approval

1. For the second independent component, I plan on meeting the 30 hours of work by recording and scoring songs for a short film and making a soundtrack for an accompanying CD.

2. The final short film(s) will be evidence of all the work put together

3. This component is very similar to my first, but for this one I plan on doing multiple songs. The first one was just one song. This will allow me to go more in depth because I have different scenes and visuals to represent. I'll more variety to get specific.

Blog 14: INdependent Component !

• LITERAL
  (a) Write: “I, _Diego Moreno_________________________, affirm that I completed my independent component which represents _35___ hours of work.”
  (b) Cite your source regarding who or what article or book helped you complete the independent component. Berstein, Paula. "Here's How to Make Stop-motion Videos in the Digital Age." Indiewire     15 December 2014. Web. 22 January 2015.
• (c) Update your hours in your Senior Project Hours link. Make sure it is clearly labeled with hours for individual sessions as well as total hours.
• (d) Explain what you completed.    I animated, scored, directed, produced, wrote, engineered, recorded, and photographed a bunch of "things" to create this stop-motion short film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQirDRkXvek
• INTERPRETIVE 
  Defend your work and explain its significance to your project and how it demonstrates 30 hours of work.   Provide evidence (photos, transcript, art work, videos, etc) of the 30 hours of work.  The animation that I did required almost 1,000 still frames to put together, meaning I had to arrange my models consistently for each of 1,000 pictures that I took. I also wrote, recorded, mixed, mastered, engineered, and performed the accompanying song. I wrote and played every single instrument. In addition to this, making  each letter and image out of construction paper took about almost a whole day. The worst part, however, was editing each of the 1,000 images individually. To put the final piece together took 16 hours!
  
• APPLIED
  How did the component help you understand the foundation of your topic better?  Please include specific examples to illustrate this. This project showed me that animating and making music independently can be much less of a hassle than collaborating with others. Since I was able to use all my own ideas and be my own authority, what i said, went. Because I want to be a composer and an animator, I feel this component also gave me a chance to see what those two professions are like when combined in an actual situation.