Renee's Art Progression

  Advanced New Media in the Arts Presentation Self-Evaluation     I feel like given that I didn't use the full term to do this project (because I switched it in week 4) and that each part of the process was brand new to me, the results were fairly decent. I say decent because the project got done and it was nice to learn the entire process, but I feel like I would want to try this again but with more developed skills. I would have liked to have burned more CDs and made better cover images. It wasn't the materials that held me back (I was able to get assistance from a lot of people), but simply that it was all new to me. I had to do everything from scratch: what program to use, how to burn, how to use the drawing tablet I had, how to use the drawing app I had, how to put the respective images on the same document, how to align the pictures to print out properly, and smaller things. That's not to say that I disliked the project; I really loved it. It's nostalgic to me and...

ART 540 Taylor Swift      I chose to present Taylor Swift given that A. there are some connections with my final project (musical elements) and B. I feel like her lyrics + visuals best represent the prompt.      Looking at the connections between Taylor Swift (her lyrics, her storytelling, etc.) and my final project (burned CDs) is that each album is pertinent to certain times in life. For Taylor Swift, we see her life unfold throughout the duration of her teens + adulthood, where she explores topics such as love, friendships, family, and more; this is done through a couple of genres as well. Her first 4 albums were country albums, and this shows her transition from being a teenager to navigating adulthood. Over the course of these albums, she incorporates more pop songs into her albums. She officially shifts to a pop singer with her 5th album and continues this for her 6th and 7th album. These 3 albums have shown her maturity given her composure regarding ...