Lets Look in the Mirror

PVA Reflection

During this whole semester, during this whole creation process and PVA lessons in general I learned quite a bit. One of the biggest things I learned, and I bet a lot of other people will say it too, is teamwork. Now, yeah it sounds cheesy but its true. We NEEDED teamwork to make this happen especially in the timeframe we had. We had to work together with the ideas, the organizing and the performance. It all required to teamwork to pull it off. And even though a lot us aren't known for our... cooperative nature, but we managed.

 Now the performance... yeah. I feel that the performance was actually very well done given our timeframe to practice. And according to friends and family, they said it was either very good or perfect. Watching the recording of the performance one thing really stuck out to me and my family though. We looked like statues at a funeral. We had almost no expression, and was just unsettling to watch. Another thing was the vocalists and harmonies voice. It simply wasn't loud enough. I think this might be because we were moving around too much and didn't stand close enough to microphone, resulting in kind of an on-and-off sound. But overall I think the performance was really good. But I'm gonna be honest here though, I feel as I'm a really good rapper an I was hoping I could do that in the performance but oh well, beggers can't be choosers. During the performance though I could hear most of the important parts, I couldn't hear everything. for example in the recording, I barely heard the harmony. It was more of a whisper than anything.

Aside from the actual performance and our mess-ups during it there are things I need to improve on quite a bit in class. For one thing, I often started off-topic discussions and kinda limited our practice time. I also might be a bit loud? Yeah... I was pretty loud in class. And I also need to stop shoving what I want to say while someone else is talking.

And a reflection wouldn't be a reflection if I didn't talk about the teacher (Well its on the paper but I woulda done it anyways). I'd have to say, Ibu Megan has been far more patient than most teachers when it comes to teaching our year level. Even with people interrupting and stuff like that, you remained patient. We were able to do this BECAUSE of Ibu Megan. So I thank you and I respect you.

In conclusion, this whole semester and Creative Cycle I have learned a lot about not only me but other people as well. I would choose this again but I wanna try other things and on top of that I don't think I can.



P.S. THIS is my last post. Probably. Maybe.

Show time and bye time!

Today on Thursday, 4th of December we have finally done our postponed performance! There was trial and error, failures and success but for our final act we did REALLY well, and from what I got from my friends, they like it too. I personally really liked my evil laugh... but that's just me. Though there were a couple of mess-ups, such as the bass not playing at the end of Hey Jude and the intro for Thriller, but what's performance without some? Like I always say, "There's no such thing as perfect, only getting better and better." During this whole thing I learned a lot about myself and everyone else while practicing for this performance and I really wish I could do this again, but I want to try other stuff... so yeah. Sadly this is nearing the end of the semester, and sadly this will probably be my last post on this blog. So hasta la bye-bye!

Progress

Since the performance date moved to a week later we hopefully be able to make more progress and hopefully incorporate more things into our performance. Lets all hope that extra week is worth it

BEAST REMIXES

After some random music searching around the internet I found a channel on Youtube that makes SICK remixes. Even if you don't recognize the originals it sounds amazing. Its almost mandatory to check out.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeckoTTiXEbqnwISpNTYzkg <----- Channel

The Big Six

After a discussion in PVA we came up with the top six topics for our performance and we picked groups to be in to "sell" people out on the idea.

For the Medley group we have Keizar, Dom and George.

In the Traditional vs Modern group is Dandy, Rifa, Jason and me.

Those who decided to do the Tribute are Jenni, Daleescha, Tasya and Phoebe

The ones doing Forward to the Past are Johan, Rachael and Belinda

The One Hit Wonder group consists of Michael, Alysa and Fahrani

Last but not least the Legends of Music group is made up of Farah, Amyra, Najwa and Hana.

These are the groups for now. May we all persuade well and the odds be ever in your favor.

And then there was five

There were so many great ideas given (some pried out) by our PVA class but we can only have one. But of course to make it easier we narrow it down to our top five favorite ones. Not only will I tell you my favored ones, I will give you REASONS. Now HERE WE GO! (This is also in order from least to most).

5. Singing Marching Band

The singing marching band. Basically a marching band... but with singing. Self-explanatory right? I quite like this idea because all of us can contribute something. Some can dance, same can sing and other stuff. I really like the base idea. But the one problem that can ruin this is, coordination. We need to be able to coordinate our steps, actions and voices to the same tune. This could take a while to train and not very easy.

4. Kolintang Orchestra

This is simple, easy to play and execute. Most of us (save one) knows how to play the kolintang but even then it won't be too hard to learn if we focus we can learn it relatively fast. There are no real problems with this plan except, patience and cooperation which will take some time since there are some people that don't do well with this.

3. Slow -> Upbeat music

I quite like this idea, as it could really be, well, amazing and no one would expect it. It surprising its unique and everyone can contribute. Thought there are a few problems here and there. One of them is how to intertwine it. Would we write it ourselves or would we go by the beat of other pieces of music? What instruments would we use? How long would each stage last? How many stages would there be? There are a lot of variables and each one can change a lot.

2. Rap Battle

Now before you guys think I'm all biased and stuff... well I actually probably am but I didn't put it in 1st so there's that. The reason I really like this is well, because, I am a fairly good rapper and rapping is basically speaking English really fast so those who are good with English can work with that. But every song has to have a beat, raps especially, and those who think they can't can work on the beat. Though everything could be a bit hard for everyone to memorize but that is the only problem.

1. Tribute to the dead (singers)

I gotta say this is really interesting and creative. Just the idea of a tribute to passed singers sounds really awesome. Though this would be really challenging to coordinate and learn the pieces of music it would still look be amazing once it worked out, this is by far my favorite one.

These are my top five favored ideas, there were so many good ideas so having to pick out five was really hard. But regardless here they are and see you next lesson!

Ideas? I THINK SO!

Ideas come from many places. A lot have shown up from a little meeting in PVA a few days ago for our performance.

• Medley (ULTRA MEGA SONG COMBO BREAKER)
• Big Band (School of Rock - esque?)
• Body Percussion (Body + music = this)
• Choir 
• Beatbox (Johan's job)
• Instrumental Choir (Choir, with instruments)
• Kolintang Orchestra (Last year)
• Acapella 
• Musical Story (Hiigh school muusi- no?)
• Cultural
• Cultural Medley Music/Dance
• Street Themed Musical (Gangsta HYPE)
• Sister Act
• Rap Battle (More hype!)
• Sister Act + Grease
• Slow -> Upbeat music
• Mash up
• Modern
• Musicvolution (Traditional first, then Modern. THEN BOTH)
• Pop Mash Up (A Mash Up... but with pop music)
• Parodies
• Singing Marching Band (Cause little to none of us can play Marching Band instruments)
• Disney Songs (Its Disney... need I say more?)   
• Musical Short Film (Musical trailer type thing to promote this class
• Cartoon Music (Like in Tom and Jerry!... no?)
• Tribute to dead singers (MJ, Whitney Housten, Bob Marley etc.)
• Classic - short film
• Legends in music 
• One hit wonders (And they never get up again...)
• Horror musical (Thriiilleeer! Thriiileeer niight!)
• Forward to the Past; 70's, 80's, 90's (Cause Back to the Future is to mainstream)