1. What's this week been like?
1a. Lots of Skyrim. In order to have discs, I had to submit my masters in November, so I've been mostly done since then. I've been working on my website.
2. If there's anything you could change, what would it be?
2a. I would've liked to add violin to one of the tracks.
3. How close is the final outcome to your goal?
3a. The album evolved from 12 tracks to 13 when one of the songs was very long, and I decided to split it. Also, I planned to have a "Making Of" video, but did not have enough time to make it.
4. If you had one more month, what would do (When I asked this, I added besides the Making Of video)?
4a. I'm done with it. This was a project where there was always a little more I'd like to do, but I had to draw a line in the sand and say this is it.
5. What advice do you have for those working on capstones?
5a. Add as much padding to your schedule as you can, because shit happens. Editors note: As part of the conversation, she mentioned how early in the year, she became very ill; to the point where she had to re-record all of her vocal tracks in October.
In regards to the class itself, here's my responses to your questions:
1. Address the efficacy of the approach we took in this class.
1a. I think having the class meet for half the semester ended up being less beneficial. I think, assuming scheduling would have permitted, it could have worked to have faculty come for guest lectures leading up to midterm and have past students come as we started working on capstones.
2. Discuss whether or not the breakdown of the project development was advantageous
2a. If by breakdown, you mean having the deadlines for the capstone idea, mentor setup, etc. it was very advantageous for me. Having additional accountability is always useful for me.
3. Discuss the advantages and/or disadvantages of the student guest speakers for forming your own approach to capstone
3a. The flaw to the student speaker is that all (or many if I'm not remembering correctly) of them worked on it for longer than many of us will have the opportunity to work on. However, having us visit Capstones was useful as a counter-point, as many of them only worked for the semester that it was due, and (for some more than others) it showed.
4. Were there any assignments that you thought were particularly helpful? Please elaborate
4a. The peer group assignment ended up being the standout. Finding out I wasn't the only person doing a (relatively) crazy-scope, innovative-concept, programming-heavy capstone was both refreshing and reassuring. Also, we ended up meeting about every other week, so it, once again, gave me another person/group to be accountable to in regards of making progress.
5. Were there any assignments that you thought were particularly useless? Please elaborate.
5a. I may be a fringe case for this, but the Secondary Mentor assignment became useless to me after completing the Primary Mentor assignment. I understand and appreciate the reasoning behind it, but a combination of a dearth of truly applicable mentors as well as good responses from the potential primary mentors made it difficult and almost busy-work to find and send out requests to potential secondary mentors.
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