#CPSA Capstone Progress Process

[amyhcpsarts-blog]

Update 4/2/17

Okay the best way I can approach this is to be reasonable

I can probably only get the first movement recorded in time, but will continue with this project even after scholars is done.

Music majors have an extremely busy schedule. And with juries approaching, this makes us even less available. 

I want the composition to be done, that’s what matters most. That the complete set of all four movements and stages of Grief are completed.

And when I continue with this after scholars is done, I might even add in a 5th movement in the middle, for the stage of grief “Bargaining” .

Depression has a good 4 and a half minutes of good ideas and should be all set once I get them organized and then orchestrated.

Acceptance is still barely started but I have an overwhelming 20 minutes of audio recorded loose ideas that I will have to put into Noteflight and decide what stays.

[deedeed-cpsarts]

It's finished! This is my finished sculpture of a coral reef undergoing the bleaching process. This is what will be displayed at ArtsFest at Maryland Day. I also made a little storybook that tells the story of a coral being bleached.

[kaitlingcpsarts]

The link above shows how I will go about making the fire effect for the beginning. This is one of the parts that I’m really excited for, but also the part I feel could end the most poorly overall because fire can look very fake very easily. While what he shows will work well for the beginning of the fire coming into view, I will need to adjust the base of the fire for the later parts, so it can be large enough to basically engulf an entire corner of the wall. In addition, I’m going to try to make a bit of a longer loop to try to make it less noticeable.

[alexiaoscpsarts-blog]

What’s it’s Been Like Meeting Different Women of Color:

In the end, we interviewed 14 different women of color; asians (south and east), middle easterners, africans (west and north), caribbeans, latinas, and women with mixed ethnicities. It surely was an experience meeting with all of them and listening to what they had to say. Just like what Merissa and I wanted, we wanted to hear something different from what we tell ourselves everyday. 

As two black women of the same age and living situation, our experiences as women of color are close to being the same; because we had a variety of women, we received multiple answers to questions we always ask ourselves. However, there was one question that ultimately united all of us together; what do you love about being a woman of color? Every single woman we interviewed responded with, “I love being different”. There’s such a liberating and exhilarating feeling connected to having another culture tied to you. As we all learned to accept and love who we are in a society where misrepresentation is prevalent, our culture is what pushes us up. 

If we had more time, I would have loved to meet up with other women of color. Many of them told us to continue with this project if we could. It’s something we’ve been thinking about actually. We now know that we aren’t the only ones who find this topic so important and close to our hearts.

[christinadcpsarts-blog]

Sketchbook Process 3/17/16

Pictured above is my process in my sketchbook. I wrote down ideas, celebrities, designers, and objects that inspire my mood for this collection. I break down what materials I might want to use so I can get an idea of the color scheme, something I think is very important in a collection. Color schemes help fluidity between looks and help the collection flow better overall. The center picture is a sketch that I think I am no longer going to make but this sketch really inspired my other rough sketches that I will be using for his project. These small rough sketches can be seen on the bottom right corner. I am not much of a sketch artist so I really just use theee to summarize the look I’m going for so I don’t forget something o originally wanted. These pages are the guideline for my project artistically.

[sarahrkcpsarts]

CPSA 250: Individual Capstone Research Practicum Learning Agreement

Name: Sarah Kim

Email: skimviolin@gmail.com

Advisor: Harold Burgess

Weekly Meeting Time: Wednesdays 5:00-5:50 PM

Purpose/Mission Statement: Put this in the form of a few sentences about what you hope to accomplish this semester. What will the end result of your project be? What will you learn or gain from the experience? Do you have other goals?

My goal for this project is to prepare and perform a Sophomore Violin Recital.  After this project, I would have learned how navigate the recital booking software for the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, three new complete pieces, how to collaborate with fellow music colleagues in the recital preparation process, and how to order catering for an estimated audience size.  Finally, by receiving feedback from important music faculty and music major colleagues, I would have the opportunity to learn the mistakes from this experience, and to ultimately better my performance energy for future recitals.

Learning Objectives:

These are more specific than the mission statement. Be sure your objectives are clearly stated and respond to what you expect to do, learn, and experience as a result this project. Please list at least three. These should scaffold toward your final project.

I will reserve the Leah Smith Recital and Lecture Hall for the performance and the Student Lounge for the reception.

I will plan a recital program in consultation with my private teacher, Dr. Stern, and my capstone faculty advisor, Harold Burgess.

I will learn the following three new pieces:

Johann Sebastian Bach Sonata no. 1 in g minor

Jean Sibelius Violin Concerto

Josef Suk 4 Pieces for Violin and Piano.

I will prepare a 30 minute reception taking place after the recital, with light refreshments.

Workshop Process:

How will you complete the project? What research or preliminary work is required? What materials will you need? What steps will you take to create the finished project? How will you perform or present your work?

How will you document your work and research in your process binder/notebook?

I will complete this project over a span of three months, January through March, in order to appropriately prepare the repertoire and organize the logistics of the concert.  The preliminary work of booking the recital hall and reception area, as well as the planning of repertoire was completed before the start of the new year to ensure maximum time for solely music practice and preparation.  In order to finish the project, I plan to prepare the assigned repertoire, perform the recital, and hold the post-performance reception.  This project will be performed on April 5th at 7:30 PM in Leah Smith Hall.

I will document my work and research in my process binder by posting audio and video clips on my Tumblr page.  These clips will show the gradual evolution of the music preparation process, from sight-reading the music to the final performance.  

Resources:

Please include a list of resources you have used/may use in the planning and execution of your project. You may include books, websites, music, video, personal communication, etc.

Repertoire Recordings:

Josef Suk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhbzZ5Y7yXs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M0f5ii12iU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8nvLIl7YZ8

Bach

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTUWCr3IXxw

Sibelius

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsbrRAgv1b4&t=622s

Project Timeline: Include dates and deadlines set by the course syllabus, as well as self-imposed benchmarks for what you would like to have done at certain points in the semester.

Faculty Advisor meeting: February 15th 11:00 AM, final plans for capstone and Learning Agreement

Repertoire Check-in: February 25th, have performance ready the Sibelius and Bach.  Memorize Suk.

Second Faculty Advisor meeting: Week of March 25th, address progress of capstone

Repertoire Check-in: March 18th, have performance ready the Suk, prepare encore piece

Catering order: March 25th, finalize menu and expected audience number

Sophomore Recital: April 5th at 7:30 PM

Third Faculty Advisor meeting: After April 5th

ArtsFest Opening Gala: Friday, April 26th, 7-9 PM

ArtsFest Full Exhibition: Saturday, April 27th ,10:30 AM - 3 PM

Academic Showcase: Friday, May 3rd, 4-5:30 PM, Edward St. John building.

[julielcpsarts-blog]

This past week, I’ve been struggling to find time, but during the small number of times I’ve gotten to break from studying, I’ve looked at the progress I made before now and I’m actually proud of what I’d written. As I was writing, I knew I wasn’t completely satisfied with how they sounded but now that I’m reading, I think they’re actually pretty good. It’s nice to have some time apart so I can become motivated again. That being said, I need to become motivated much more in order to meet my new deadlines.

[juliapcpsarts]

Complete Progress

This project was interesting. The whole point was learning about my emotions and developing my painting skills. I personally think that I accomplished both of those things. For several of my paintings, meditation was key. Two of them were the colors that I saw while meditating during yoga. One was the colors I saw during mantra meditation in my workshop. For those paintings, I would experience the meditation and see the colors and then I would paint them within an hour of meditating, or I write do a detailed description of what I saw in my head, and then paint later.

For the other three paintings, it was a matter of painting how I felt at that moment, which was more challenging, as I didn’t have anything to go off of. My Happiness painting was the only one that had some sort of non-abstract form as a part of it. That painting, unfortunately, resulted in a sunburn. The Loneliness painting was kind of odd in that lonely wasn’t exactly right. It was like a combination of feelings that I can’t really describe, but they weren’t all bad.

There’s more for me to write, I’m sure, but I’m very sick and I feel like I’m going to pass out so I’m going to stop here.

[beautyofrepresentation]

Am I being too hard on myself: Choosing the right ones

March 16th, 2016: 

I overthink and analyze almost everything, especially when it comes to what I create. I am also a self-proclaimed perfectionist and I can sit there for hours fussing over one detail until its exactly they way I like, or until someone sees me going crazy and intervenes. Each woman had 50-150 photos taken of her, and and after every few photoshoot, I sit and look at all the pictures that I have taken of the models and select the ones that I think are the best, composition wise and do the women justice. I do this so that when it comes time to give them the raw pictures, after the capstone is finished, they’ll have a folder of “20 best shots” that they can do what they want with them and post them to Instagram. or Facebook.  Being the self critical person that I am, out of, lets say 100 pictures, I would only chose 20 of them that fit my personal criteria. 

On snow day i was going through the most recent pictures from that weekend and I was a bit disappointed in myself. The three women that I shot that day did a great job, but I don’t think their effort was reflected in the pictures that I had taken of them. In my opinion my composition of some of the frames were poor. I started complaining that I didn’t do these women justice in the pictures that I took of them and that there are only a handful of pictures that I like. Alexia overheard me and she looked at my laptop screen and said,”Oooh I like that one, it’s pretty” to a pictures that I had the opposite reaction to. She asked me what I thought was so bad about it and some of the others, and while i was explaining my discontent with the composition and lighting, she shook her head saying, “What are you talking about these pictures look great. Merissa that’s what photoshop is for, you can edit these. You took over 100 pictures so that you could have options. Stop being so self-critical. You did a great job.” 

Over the course of this phase of the project, Alexia has been really great partner when it comes to making me take a step back and look at the pictures for what they are, and not what I want them to be. 

[amyhcpsarts-blog]

Update 3/16

After mapping out my first movement in an attempt to try to get the second movement together, I’ve begun typing up notes and analysis for my first movement in order to help me explain and present my piece at Artsfest. 

I used three motifs/themes in the first movement and I’m going to also use three motifs in the second one. These motifs tend to be puns, something symbolic or something that just sounds good. My pun motifs, which I am very proud of, include the notes “DEAD” and a series of notes that range from scale degrees 7 up to the minor 3, which in solfege syllables is “ti” (7) up to “me” (3) and spells “time.” 

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Today is the Thursday before spring break and all of my classes have been canceled. I still have my rehearsal with my chamber group, and I’m going to ask them to play some parts for me. I’m also going to get my other friends to record some parts for me.

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I’m currently trying to upload recordings of my composition process to my Tumblr but it doesn’t seem to be compatible. (tumblr’s asking for a link, but my recording is an mp4) Thus I’m writing text.

A way to help you brainstorm is to just play freely for 15 minutes. It’s okay and even good to make accidents. In fact, most of my accidents lead to really cool ideas. I listen to these recordings and use my aural dictation skills to figure out what notes I was playing. 

Overall this is a pretty time consuming process, but I enjoy it and am very determined to get it completed. I’m looking forward to a productive Spring Break!

[deedeed-cpsarts]

Stumped

I have discovered that halfway through the semester is when I really start to drag, both academically and creatively. I’m finding it harder than I thought it would be to finish my capstone project because I cannot motivate myself to do anything that isn’t due like the next day. It is kind of like writer’s block, but different. I’m really really trying to get over it though. Now that I’m on spring break, I have a lot to accomplish to get done on time. I think that I just need to push myself a little harder to start working on it. Hopefully once I do start working, it will be easier to make some progress. I think other art scholars are experiencing the same thing, but I don’t know. Hopefully it isn’t just me dragging and making slow progress. 

[ryanycpsarts-blog]

Planning Sketch: Red-Figure Kylix

This is a planning sketch for the first in the series of pieces I will be making. My kylix will consist of four separate parts that I will attach into one. I plan to wheel-throw the bowl-like top and the stem separately. I will then attach them together, and add the two hand-rolled handles on either side. The pot will be mostly black, with red-figure designs encircling the outside and a round image and border on the bottom of the interior. Photos will come of the construction process.  

[kaitlingcpsarts]

I’ve decided for the sake of time and logistics to just do a projection onto a wall, instead of onto 3D objects as I originally intended. This means I will no longer need VPT, which helps map the 3D surface being projected on. As of right now, I’m planning on making the projections with Adobe after effects. Attached is a link to a tutorial on how to create chaotic particles. The Aesir gods, Ymir, and the cow will all be made up of turbulent particles,so this is a very useful tutorial.

[alexiaoscpsarts-blog]

How I’ve Changed as an Artist:

Not only has this capstone given me a chance to explore different drawing and watercolor techniques, it has also showed me how much I have developed as an artist.

I’ve been drawing for a very long time; if I were to go back to when I can remember, Sonic characters were all I drew. Now, I’ve had experience using so many mediums and drawing in different styles. I can say that I’ve grown to develop my own style of drawing/painting based on artists I’ve observed in the past. My ability to draw from a reference picture has improved as seen from progress photos and videos for my capstone; although guidelines are not a bad thing (they are actually really important), I have grown from having to entirely depend on them to using them only when I need to. In addition to this, I can definitely say that my ability to use watercolor paint has grown along with my experience. It took a while to realize that watercolor is more versatile than it appears to be. 

Of course, there are still spots I still want to improve on. I did not delve into perspective very much for this project, mostly because it makes me very uncomfortable. When it comes to facial features, I’m entirely confident. When it comes to backgrounds, I struggle quite a bit. I sort of regret avoiding the implementation of architecture in my capstone for this reason. However, I’ve been playing with this in the World Building Workshop. Another thing I still struggle with is drawing hands. I had the chance to include hands in many of these portraits, but I purposefully avoided them to make it easier for myself. There’s something about appendages that I just find too difficult to draw. Since I am not finished with all of the sketches, I will try to include hands more to further challenge myself. 

When it comes to art, whether it is visual, performance, etc., you are always learning. This is why I find it important to reflect back to previous work; surely with experience and active attempts at learning, anyone can improve! 

[kelsyscpsarts-blog]

Capstone Agreement Form

CPSA 250: College Park Arts Scholars Capstone: Solo Project, Spring 2018

Name: Kelsy Song

Email: ksong1@terpmail.umd.edu

Advisor: Montse

Weekly Meeting Time: Friday 2:20pm

Purpose/Mission Statement: I hope to learn more about controlling the manual settings on my Nikon D3400 camera so that I can take photographs with purpose. I also hope to gain photography editing skills. The end result of my project will be a poster board organized with the fashion photography photos I take over the semester. The beginning photos will be taken with the “Auto” function and then the following photos will be taken with manual settings. The photos in the end will be edited using Photoshop to display the clothes in a better manner. My goal is to show my growth in photography skills over the semester in the slideshow as I research articles and learn more about specific tips from the CPSA201 photography workshop.

Learning Objectives:

·     Learn how to balance ISO, shutter speed, and aperture when taking photos

·     Take a variety of shots in creative poses that can provoke reactions and or grab the attention of the audience

·     Become familiar with using Photoshop to edit photos

Workshop Process:

To complete my project, I have to research the concept of fashion photography and research how to take photos that portray clothing in the most attractive way. I’ll also need to research famous and successful fashion photographers to learn about their processes and read their advice on how to take the best photographs. Once I understand the concepts and steps on how to take the photos, I’ll need to learn photo editing skills and find accessible websites. I’ll take the steps of researching photography skills for my Nikon D3400 camera, going on photoshoots, learning how to use Photoshop, and editing photos. I’ll present my work with a poster board with my fashion photographs at Arts Fest. I’ll also have a list of steps and tips that I found helpful in learning about fashion photography to demonstrate my thought process throughout working on the project.

I’ll document my work by uploading pictures from popular fashion photographers and fashion clothing photos that inspire me on my CPSA Tumblr account. I’ll also upload a few pictures from each of my photoshoots onto Tumblr to mark my growth as I develop photography taking skills and editing skills.

Resources:

·     Photoshop and or other photography editing websites

·     Fashion magazines

·     Poster board

·     Possibly another SanDisk memory card

Project Timeline:

·     Meet with my advisor and review my Learning Agreement - 2/2

·     Find creative fashion photography photos with concepts that I want to incorporate in my photography and go on my first photoshoot using the “Auto” function - 2/3

·     Research fashion photography more deeply and find professional photographers that inspire me - 2/5 to 2/11

·     Learn about the processes of other fashion photographers, update my process binder -2/12 to 2/18

·     Turn in the revised copy of my Learning Agreement – 2/14

·     Watch videos and or read articles on settings for my Nikon D3400 camera and organize my previous research more formally on a Word Document, update my process binder – 2/19 to 2/25

·     Present a 2-minute presentation of my capstone project, exchange Critical Response Feedback with a partner and record it in my process binder - 2/21

·     Go on my second photoshoot using the “Auto” function – 3/3

·     Go on my third photoshoot using manual settings – 3/10

·     Watch videos and or read articles on how to use Photoshop, update my process binder – 3/12 to 3/18

·     Meet with my advisor and review my progress – 3/14 to 3/29

·     Go on my fourth and fifth photoshoot using manual settings – 3/17 to 3/23

·     Begin editing photos from the fourth and fifth photoshoots using Photoshop – 3/24 to 4/1

·     Present a 2-minute presentation of my capstone project since the first presentation – 4/11

·     Continue editing photos from previous photoshoots using Photoshop - 4/2 -4/15

·     Order photos from Shutterfly or another reliable website – 4/16

·     Develop final list of steps and plan the final arrangements of the photos– 4/17 to 4/26

·     Present my project at ArtsFest – 4/28

·     Meet with my advisor for the final faculty advising meeting – 5/2 to 5/9

·     Present my project at the Academic Showcase – 5/4

·     Turn in Final Advisor Conference Reflection – 5/14

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Advising Meeting 1

I don’t know how to attach a document for Tumblr.

CPSA250:                   Conference Report

Fill this form out in its entirety & submit it via email to all three of the Arts Scholars faculty (Harold, Bimbola and Montse) within 48 hours of your conference. Copy this information over to your Scholars Tumblr site as well (tagged as CPSA Capstone Advising). Failure to submit this form on time will result in losing half the points for the meeting process!

NAME: Michelle Chan

ADVISOR: Montse

MEETING DATE & TIME: Thursday 2/8/18 4:10pm

In 3-4 sentences, please describe what was discussed during your meeting.

We discussed the timeline, for which she advised me to confirm it with my partner, Lily Huang, to keep in mind weekends and life in general. She recommended dividing the animation by characters rather than by scenes, or to make the initial roughs more detailed so we both have the same idea and the animation doesn’t have illogical jumps between scenes. Then, I tried to describe my story and she advised making it simpler and following a narrative of want, so, but, action.

In 3-4 sentences, please explain what the next steps you will take with your project will be.

My next step was discussing the timeline and story with my partner so that we are both on track and each part is clear and included in the timeline. We revised the story so the complicated details are not included. After that is finishing the storyboard drafts and including more details in them so Lily and I can know what the action and its purpose is. I’ll be brainstorming ideas for the main theme of the “beginning of the adventure” story.

Please use the space below to indicate any further questions, concerns, or confusions that were NOT addressed during the meeting.

Should all posts that fall under the “Complete Process Binder” assignment’s description of “showing your progress and process as fully as possible” have the tag “CPSA Capstone Journal” or should they be untagged in the Process Binder Tumblr page?

I’m also wondering if it’s ok if I don’t have a central theme?