Process Piece

https://soundcloud.com/katesfrank/getting-ready-on-a-sunday-morning

I really enjoyed this assignment. It was fun to play with editing software that I am not familiar with. I used iMovie. It was really simple and I was able to figure it out without any problem. For my process I chose to use getting ready in the morning. I am pretty low maintenance and it usually doesn't take me very long to get ready. However, this is a point of contention between one of my roommates and me. She thinks that I need to take more time getting ready so that I can be more feminine, whatever that means. Despite my mental unwillingness to yield I have found that I actually have begun wearing more make up and taking more time, a fact that I blame on having pale winter skin. I chose to examine my morning routine to spend more time thinking about this issue and how it is affecting my everyday life.

As a teacher I think this assignment could be useful to analyze the effect of sound. For example, if we are studying poetry, which can be very aural, I think it would be useful to have the students make a sound interpretation of the poem. It would force them to analyze how the sounds of the words could be portrayed and how the sound affects the meaning. However, for this project you would have to have a school that had many technological resources.