Synthesis essay of project 3

                  From September until now, I worked on the blog project every week. Now the project is about to finish, and I will make some claim about what I have studied from this project. This project is not only helping me study in music field, but also practice my writing skills, and build my belief. I studied some researching skills about how to judge reliability of a piece of information. I also learn how to write a news on a website to my blog objectively.

At the beginning, it was really difficult for me to research the correct information I needed and cited it correctly. For example, my first week blog post is really rough because I didn’t know how to transfer the language in website to my blog. And also, I didn’t cite it because I didn’t know I needed to cite each resource that I used from the internet. After I finished project 1, my instructor told me that I need to have a work cited page at the end for each resource that I used. This is a really efficient way to make my audience understand what I write, and it’s also a way of respecting the author of the resource. It helps my audience to understand where my information came from. If it’s necessary, my audiences may go to the website themselves to explore more knowledge in the field.

In addition, this project also helps increase my writing skill. As a writer, I need to consider the feeling of my audience. I need to represent all the information objectively without bias. The post of October 17 about “Contemplating Controversy”is really good example. This post asked me to find a controversy in my field and introduce it without bias. I found a resource on the debate website. I needed to read each sentence really carefully because some sentences include bias. I needed to pick both sides of information correctly and present it objectively without using “I think”. This is the basic ability that each writer should have, and I learned this in blog project.

This project also helped me to build my belief of music. I am a rock music fan and also a guitar player in a band. And I am really familiar with how the band works. After I finish this blog, I find as a music person, it’s more important to learn the meaning and theory of music. I think the free post helps me a lot in this part. In each free post blog, I looked for some news in my field. During this period, I found there are so many conflicts and theories in my field. The free post of week 7, I talked about “lip-synch”. It’s a technical term for matching lip movements with sung or spoken vocals. I never knew about this, and after I read the article that talked about this, I changed my mind of “lip-synch”. Not all “ lip-synch” is good, but sometimes it is necessary. This totally changed my belief about the field of music show. Also I believe there are more conflicts like that which I never knew before. This project really helps me to know more about my field, and build my belief.

Finally, this project helped me a lot on my researching ability, writing skills, and realizing my field. I find it’s really easy to learn this way. We can talk about some opinions that we have, and blogs use Internet to deliver information, which I like the most. It’s a way for me to show myself to my friends, instructor and public. Also we can learn more when we get feedback from them. 

Week 10 free post

                                   How does music used in film industry?

            Last night I saw the Korean horror movie "Bunshinsaba". I found the music use in this movie is really interested. I found sometimes in a horror movie, the scary part is mot the pictures on the screen. It’s the sound and music that you heard makes you scary. This is how the music uses in different industry.

            First I want to talk how the music used in movie industry. I have searched a video about interviewing that support my topic. Basically, the music used in film can lead audience’s emotion. Emotion is how the audience feel about the things they heard and saw. Correct music plus the interesting plot make the perfect movie.

            

Week 10 post

                 The website that I choose is the Ibanez official website. This website use the clearly description and nice organization to show their product. It’s really easy for customers to choose, and clearly show the advantage and disadvantage for each model.

               First, the purpose of the website is selling instrument. The website uses several ways to present their products. Also this website is trying to present their products in many different ways. For example: when you enter the website. It will show several of their new products with some famous rock stars. When you click on the product you want to see, you will automatically enter the product page and the data is shown up on screen. It uses pictures, data comparison, and words description to show their products. It’s really easy for their customers to compare the advantage and disadvantage. I think this website reach the purpose by this kind of presentation.

              Secondly, the audience of the website is instrument player. This company can sell more of their products by knowing their audience.  Also, there are some places in the website present that well. For example: each model of guitar have different famous guitar player as a signature. The company uses the famous guitar players to represent the products in order to get customers interested. I also think the second audience of their website should be their competitors. Nowadays guitar industry is really mature.  Each company have best product to represent their company. Ibanez website is also trying to awe their competitors.

            Finally, the style and rhetoric using is way to the point. I like the way this website use different style for different product. For example, if you click on the electric guitar page, the style is heavy metal. If you click on the hollow body, it will change the style to soft. The website use the performance of each product to decide the main style of webpage, it also showed the feature of each product.

                                  

work cited

Ibanez Guitars. Ibanez. copyright @ 2013. web. 09 Nov 2013.

Week9 free post

This week, I want share a concert with you guys. The band in this video is "Green Day" the most popular punk rock band. This concert is their new concert in 2013. most of songs came from their new albums. I share the video because I want everyone to feel the rock music instead of my writing. This is a great concert.  There are lots of classic songs from green day like "Basket case", "Holiday", and "American Idiot". Those songs have the meanings inside of it. The song "Holiday" represent sadness of war. The song "American Idiot" said some bad things about American Government. I hope everyone enjoy it.

Week 9 Post

why rock music is important?          

I find a news that talks about how music influence human especially rock music. This article explains why rock music is so important. First, rock music has the ability to integrate different kinds of music. For example, when people want some light rocks, they will choose country music and jazz music as a way to create. Also it’s an important genre of music because it has the power to not only influence but also sustain itself through different generations. The easy way to explain this is “rock influence culture.” In United States, rock music is an important way to speak to political issue and government. This become a way that citizen speak to government. People use different kinds of rock music like punk and classic to show their different feelings. This is the mind of rock music. Sometimes people ask me why rock music makes people exciting? I will say not only the rhythm, but the meaning of lyric is the main part. People understand what’s the meaning of lyric, they will better understand about the rhythm. In Europe and North America, rock music is the trendsetter in music field. Artiest use rock music to against government, to against war, to against everything that makes them unhappy. 

work cited

"Why rock music is important?", rock- a genre that speak to many generation.

URL:http://iml.jou.ufl.edu/projects/Fall08/StewartA/

week 8 free post

The guitar industry is a really big industry in the world. The instrument “Guitar” has a long history and there are so many types around there. Today I will introduce different kinds of guitar, and functions of different kinds of guitar.

The first guitar that I’m going to introduce is “Acoustic guitar.” This kind of guitar is really popular and it has a common name called “Wooden Guitar.” Most people are familiar with this guitar. It used to play country music. There are two kinds of strings can be used in this guitar--- nylon and steel. The sound of this guitar is really light and acoustic.

The second guitar that I’m going to introduce is “electric guitar”. This guitar gave people an impression of rock. That’s true because this guitar is really good at metal sound, jazz and rock. This guitar has a composite material and only steel-strings. This kind of guitar also has some types. For example, in order to play jazz, I may use “Archtop “type, and if I play rock and metal, I may use “hard shape” type. I believe that most people know the band called “Green day” there are two main type of music they played. One is punk rock, and another is light rock. Resonator guitar is the type of electric guitar that they use when they play light rock. The sound is more acoustic than normal electric guitar, and it’s really big.

The third type that I’m going to introduce is not really normal. Most people may not seen it before and it’s really hard to play. It’s called “twelve-string guitar.” The only different between this guitar and acoustic guitar is the string. Actually, the twelve-string guitar makes the sound more enjoyable. This guitar is really expensive, and the skill requirement is really high.

week 8 post

How to learn in music field?

          Somebody told me before that music field is the field requires your mouth and skill. After I played band for several years, I feel that really deeply. There is almost no written skill required in this field except you are a lyric writer. I think the main idea of this field is “practice makes perfect. I personally have an experience about this sentence.

           Everyone will get nervous on the stage even they are really familiar with what they did. I still remember the first time that I went to stage in my high school. Before the performance, I practice what I will show lots of times. I think everything is going to be fine on the stage. But when I was on the stage, I saw lots of eyes were focusing on me. I started to get nervous and forgot everything. After that I know the key sentence of play instrument on the stage. Even you feel good about it, you still need more practice. Because this is the beginning of learn this instrument.

         Learn in music field is really different than learn in writing. In writing you also need more and more practice, but the most important point is being creative. If we can see something differently, we can write something differently. But in the music field, all you need to do is practicing. Every extra skill is based on that. That’s why most rock stars can improvisation, because they have practice the same melody thousands of times.