This portfolio is about the music that I want to share with my audience. Portfolio with many different visuals in such as text, pictures, and videos could help me express thoroughly of my thoughts in music with my favorite singers and songs. Music is the great thing that people have to communicate with each other with their deep feelings in a different way. Two WPs are about music from my favorite rock band-Coldplay, and the album that I would bring to my desert island. They are all about my favorite songs that I would like share with others. I choose to revise the WP#1 – Track by Track Annotated Playlist and WP#2 – Desert Island Disc mostly because all my classmates and instructor gave me great feedback and I have room to improve these two WPs. Due to my classmates and the instructors’ suggestion I have improved the following places: revise the layout of the WP with adding proper more pictures in with future usage of the online medium; change the sentences’ structure and the grammar, and revise some repetitive paragraphs to make the blog easy and fluent to read; change the title to a more attractive one; discuss the connection to the album and songs more.
These two WPs are all about songs and albums from Coldplay, and I use these two WPs as the great chance to show my personal experiences with music and with writing about music to public audiences. The first WP#1 – Track by Track Annotated Playlist shows about my mix tape that I feel best represents the band’s career. This WP reflects my personal experiences with music. I come from China and I grew up in China, but due to some reasons from my mom since she loves listening to English songs, I listened music songs from an early age. Coldplay is my favorite British rock band and they are also popular in China some years ago. Since I do not listen too many artists or bands singing in English, Coldplay then becomes important in my experience of listening to English songs. I introduced songs that I like from Coldplay and also choose one of my favorite albums of Coldplay from the second WP. This is my first time writing about music to the public, and this experience of writing about music to public audiences is really precious to me and it also helps me get used to write music to the public.
The two WPs and revision of my WPs provides me a lot great suggestions and experience of how I will approach music and music writing in the future. I will write about music with the clear opening context of the artists, history, songs, my battle with depression before working through the specific songs or album, and etc. In the body of the writing, it’s important to connect with my personal understanding and analysis to the songs; insert the mediums of pictures or videos to help the audience know more about the music; make the structure of the body more clearly of the analysis; resonate as much as my audience with my feelings; provide a meaningful title and a great conclusion in the end. I have to know that the true emotions and the good structure are important in the music writing. The good structure could make the article easy and fluently for audience to read and understand, and the true emotions from me could resonate as much as my audience of my favorite music and band. These are important things that I will approach music and music writing in the future.
My portfolio including the memo and two revised WPs show thoroughly of my understanding of how music and music writing connect with and influence t he broader culture about rock music and English songs. My first language is not English, but I love listening to the great singers and bands. Coldplay is my favorite British rock band and I love many songs from them. The music influences the broader culture even though they are in different language and having different cultures. From Coldplay’s songs, I could know about the passions and true emotions about life, friendship, parents, puzzles that people have, and etc. Music has no boarders. This music writing helps me to devote myself in thinking, feeling, and analyzing Coldplay’s music from a kind of professional way. The music writing could also help me to examine the deep reason of why I love their music and how I could arise resonate as much as others with my feelings about Coldplay. Music and music writing influence the broader culture in a deep and completed way.
In conclusion, between two revisions of WP1 and WP2, I’m most interested in WP2 of revising and I think both of them could represent my skills as music writer. I would like to revise WP 2 mostly because I have more rooms in it since I did the following things: further discussing my connection to the album and songs with adding more of my personal emotions; change the repetitive and stated more personal reasons of why I like the album; revised the structure; wrote a more meaningful and attractive title; added more images. I did the similar thing in my revision of WP1. WP1 could show more of my personal emotions of those songs since they are top 9 in my mind about Coldplay and I love all the songs that I selected the best. Both of these revisions of WP1, WP2, and even WP3 could represent my skills as a music writer since I devoted all my true emotions and efforts in these music writing. Welcome to my music land.
Weida Ju's Music World 