Reflection Questions for Music Genre Project

Write a 100-word paragraph describing your project, and which tools you used in iMovie and GarageBand.  In other words, how did you make your project?  Can you think of ways in which we could improve the project in the future?  What problems did you encounter in making this project?  Leave some words of advice for the incoming classes.


This project was probably the most time consuming out of all the projects we've done so far this trimester. It involved doing some research, citing everything, finding pictures, and getting music. Plus I had to map everything out and figure out the order of things and how it would be presented in the final outcome. I basically started by making the title page background which involved about 20 individual pictures. Citing every single one of them took the longest, along with the other citations. I knew that the particular genre of Broadway musicals would be easy to find the history for, but with the time limit on the movie, I could only research so much so that I could have enough time to present things such as composers and a few different shows from the '70's. So whenever I found bits and pieces of good information and facts, I went ahead and put it into the iMovie project. Then I threw in a few composers from the time period to name and I had to make decisions on what shows I wanted to recognize in the project, along with the song sample. So I published the finished movie with pictures and movement only without music, which I added using Garageband, which also took a while like the citing. The only 2 main problems I faced was that I almost got carried away with making the project too long; it was almost 6 and a half minutes long! So I had to cut a few things and shorten clips. Then the other was that the finished product was too large send in an email, so I have it on my flash drive and ready to be presented. I can't really think of anything that would need improvement to make this project any easier, but a word of advice would be that it's a project that can take up a lot of time and you really have to work at it to get it done on time. But if you choose a music genre you really like, or love for that matter, it shouldn't be very difficult at all, like for me, because I really love the musicals from the 1970's!