History With Billy
Saturday February 01st 2020, 6:42 am
Filed under: Humanities

This project is a bit of a different flavour. Coming off the super fun, long winded and intense horror project and the resultant movie, this project was a good cleanse. For a start we were taught by Ms. Maxwell, she hasn’t taught a unit since grade 10 so that was fun to switch it up. Also, the main driver for this unit was very different. Normally well read a book, or watch a movie, or discuss and event. No, our main document that lit the fire of our project was as follows.

Yep. That’s right. Our project was based off of the events and people mentioned by a Billy Joel in that song. Before I get into what I made and chose as a topic click HERE for a rundown of the lyrics and topics. For a fun game try and find mine?
Anyway, onto my project.


For my topic I chose ‘Liston Beats Patterson.’ This was a lyric said by Billy that references the heavyweight bout in 1962 between Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson. Our whole project was to make any sort of media we please arguing the significance of the event chosen. I chose to emphasize the profundity of events. That in order for an event to be significant it has to change the way of life for a group of people. That could be a large lifestyle change, or in the case of this match it was as simple as just how sport fans loom at athletes. here is the video I made to make that point.

This video was originally dreamy dup to show me practicing m sport of stand up paddle boarding but weather and filming issues associated with such got in the way. I also was not happy with how the attire change went. Throughout the video I slowly remote my medals as well as sponsor gear. The idea behind that is that an athlete is more than their accomplishments or success. How I cut it and didn’t mention was originally intended to make it so it spoke for itself. Unfortunately that did not work perfectly. I would change that if I did it again.


The other big part of this project was communication, this applied to our final product but also throughout. The ability to constantly be able to present and enforce ideas. We did this through a few different documents that we created, our final products as well as presenting to our class. I really liked the idea of presenting. This meant that not only did we have to know our product enough to make a product. We also had to know it well enough to stand in front of our teachers and peers and talk about it. Here is some of the ways I communicated before any of that happened.

We did a lot leading up to this project. The first thing that we did was a pitch. This was a multi page document, in which we were to pitch our event as significant, our idea on what to create and do some initial research. This is something I had never done before and honestly I really loved it. It allowed me to take a step that I wanted to begin my project, and also gave my teacher a window into my thinking so that she helped me throughout and understood all aspects. Here is my first pitch.

Liston Beats Patterson


 

The next two parts of my project go hand in hand. First is my formal research document. This was a 5-10 page document where we were to research anything and everything related to our topic and present it in a way that was easy for us to read and Ms. Maxwell to follow. Here that is.

Liston Beats Patterson Research

Then from that came my works cited. This is something that we have done before but this was a wake up call as we haven’t doe it in a while and definitely not as a separate page. This is everything source wise that I used for my research document as well as product creation. Here that is.

Works Cited; Liston V Patterson


This all might seem fast and to the point. And it was. That’s what I really enjoyed about this unit. It was a very fresh way to start 2020 and our project minds had a chance to kick into high gear yet again. As far as the project went it was very lineal and easy to follow which I enjoyed because I always knew where I was going and how to get there. The content as well was also super cool because we were given a very large piece of material, then got to break down what we liked and were interested for our project. I also enjoyed the practice of independence. Our class got too much of each other in the last project and will benefit from the separation of this project. Overall, great time and I’ll see you in the Vietnam Project. (Teaser)

 

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