Month: October 2025

Session Number:	2
Week Number:	2
What is your overall goal for this week? Be specific.	Create a diminuendo section AFTER the high point that makes melodic sense rather than a random drop in sound/volume.

Work Tasks

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
10-27	Class time was spent doing or listening to instructions	Whole class	Ways of living in the world: Career, following instructions.
10-28	Did the multitasking is switchtasking and instructions for most of the class period, then helped creating ideas for Ege then some piano work.	about 35ish, then the remaining time – 15 minutes.	Ways of living in the World: Career, following instructions. Ways of Working: Collaboration, planning. Ways of thinking: Innovation, finding new chords for next melodic parts.
10-29	Looked at the sheet music I wanted to replicate for a section of my piece and started implementing.	All of class	Tools of working: Media literacy, analyzing other creations to add to my own (why it works).
10-30	Played on the piano to find chords that I will later use for my song.	All of class	Ways of Thinking: Innovation, creating/finding new chords Ways of living in the World: College, planning out what I’ll be using in the song rather than making it up on the spot.
10-31	Ege found a cool app that would allow me to work with actual strings rather than a synthesized version of a string instrument.	most of the class	Ways of Thinking: Innovation, finding new resources that could help the creation process.

Personal Reflection on the Week

Yes, I made a decrescendo segment that made musical sense and direction in my piece. The biggest challenge was making it make musical sense with the chord progression. I learned that even if you’re decrescendoing, notes from background sections can still rise and that’s what I did with the second violins.

Most Proud of…

I’m most proud of the climax section before the decrescendo and how it became unified with all sections.

• THIS NEW AND IMPROVED VERSION WAS CO-CREATED WITH RYAN SOLIE
• FILL IN ALL SECTIONS BELOW 
• DELETE ALL OF Italic INSTRUCTIONS AFTER COMPLETING THEM
• PLACE A CREATIVE COMMONS IMAGE RELATED TO THE PROJECT
  • WATCH MR. LE DUC IMAGE PLACEMENT TUTORIAL FROM INSIDE EDUBLOGS
• REMEMBER TO HIT PUBLISH WHEN DONE
• DELETE ALL OF RYAN’s and LE DUC’s INSTRUCTIONS DETAILED ABOVE AFTER COMPLETING THEM

GENRE

• Orchestral

INFLUENCES and EXAMPLES

• Christopher Larkin, Samuel Barber
• https://youtu.be/6swG7f57R8E?si=tA_Zy31I5GiJT7vQ&t=86

IDEAS AND EXPLANATION

• Create sections of “stringy harmony” – Look at sheet music! Should explain how far away the notes are for that effect, then implement.

SCHOOL OF ROCK SOUND SAMPLE

• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OrIBV49kpInD03l9oLB2v2cK7RYkxeau/view?usp=sharing
• https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nM2zsfjvePSPnyWxbfkLwyk9bhxrL2O5/view?usp=sharing

WHO WILL YOU NEED TO ACCOMPLISH THIS IDEA?

• I’ll do everything by myself, but I will need resources that provide sheet music so that I can analyze the distance between notes to understand how the “Stringy effect” is being made.

WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO LEARN FROM THIS PROJECT

• Trying to use different instrument sections equally with each one adding something to the song and switching who has the melody.

RESOURCES FOR INSPIRATION

• Life Hack for Generating Ideas
• The Three Sections of the Logline
  • World establishment/ SETTING.
  • OBJECTIVE/MOTIVE for the journey.
  • CONSEQUENCE/STAKES of the journey.
• Explore and use the Logline Creator and Resources to help build your logline
• TEMPLATE 1: SomeONE or THING fighting SOMEONE or THING for SOMEONE or THING
• Another way to think structure your logline…
• TEMPLATE 2: In a world where ____, ____ needs to ____, otherwise ____ will happen.
• FILM: Explore and use the Logline Creator and Resources to help build your logline
• ROCK: 20 Ways to Start a Song – Keppie Coutts and Ben Romalis
• GAME: Brainstorming game ideas with Adriel Wallick
• She made a game a week for a year
• GAME: Rapid Production Game Project
• GAME: Making Your First Game: Minimum Viable Product – Scope Small, Start Right – Extra Credits
• GAME: Watch 30 Things I Hate About Your Game Pitch
• Answer These Questions with Your Pitch
  • Is this game/film/song worth making?
  • Can this team actually make this project?

Session Number:	2
Week Number:	1
What is your overall goal for this week? Be specific.	Create an idea for the road of a FULL length song also think of ideas that could come before my last product so that it sounds more like a song.

Work Tasks

Date	Task Description	Time Spent	Was / Were your choices and work Best Practices? Why?
10-20	Listened to my last song I made and critiqued it. Also listened to the start and end of my new song to find places where I can add more musical ideas.	Full period	Critical thinking, Problem solving,
10-21	Started brainstorming ideas for collaborating with Ege	Most of the period	Planning
10-22	Absent
10-23	Added effects to my turn and burn music. Exported and worked on blog stuff.	Half of period Half of period	Career – following instructions
10-24	Ruby wanted a violin part for his song. He wanted a part that was similar to Dies Irae so I looked up videos about the song and researched the history of it.	All period	Planning/Research

Personal Reflection on the Week

Reflecting on your work sharpens problem-solving skills and deepens understanding by encouraging thoughtful review, which boosts retention and streamlines your workflow for a stronger, more focused week ahead.

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