About
The Folk Music Project was a assignment where we created a video essay about a old folk song and talked about the origins, history, and culture behind it. The song I did was 'Man of Constant Sorrow" which is most well known for being sung in "O' Brother Where Art Thou". We had to cover the origins, history, why it is considered a classic, and three different clips and covers people have made throughout time.
21st Century Skills |
Pros and Cons |
The Folk Music Project uses Global Awareness Skills. Early Folk music stems from songs black slaves would sing while working in the fields. Without those origins we would not have folk music and we got to see how it evolved over time and how certain cultures shaped it from it's origins.
I learned so much interesting information about Folk Music as a genre in this project. For example, the creator of the song 'O' Brother Where Art Thou' once said in an interview that he did not write the song and he did not even know where it had come from.
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I am proud of the amount of information I was able to find in such a short span of time. I joined this class late in first quarter, and while my classmates all had around one -two weeks to finish this, I had two days. I was able to make a good product in such a short timespan.
This was challenging as certain times though. For example, Putting clips of youtube videos in was difficult and I had to go through 3 softwares to find one that I did not have to pay for. But the hardest part was trying to upload the audio clips I made on my phone to my computer. My phone at the time had an issue where it could not connect to the internet and I had to upload the videos in clips to my discord and then transfer them out in a really backwards way.
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What Could be Better |
Past and Future Learning |
The main thing that could have been better was the voiceover. I ended up staying up late to finish the project and I sounded very tired during the entire video. I also should have done more reaserch about editing softwares because the one I used made it unable to download unless I bought it, but I was able to bring my computer in and play it from there.
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This project relates to other video projects my classmates and I have made during school, with the Hawaiian Project during freshman year standing out the most to me.
Knowlege about editing and being able to use that kind of technology is important to know about if you ever have to do videos for your work or for anything else.
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