Keeley Davis-Dawe's BAPP Blog

Module three- it's quite overwhelming and exciting entering and being a part of module three. I have just completed my interviews and transcripts. I actually thoroughly enjoyed the process and learnt so much! The next process i am a little weary of the coding and linking the things my interviewees have said however, i am very much focused and ready to go with the challenege ahead of me. I have grown and learnt so much through the process of building my project and i am excited to finally head into the final chapter. The interviews were very eye opening and interesting and i think once i put two and two together my work will flourish.

An update... I am super happy with how my draft went i have amended the changes and I am happy with it. I think moving forward the ony thing i still need to work on is my MORE applicaition which i am finding to be the trickiest part. It's something that is a complately new concept to me which is a great challenge, I am excited about actually carrying out the research when we return for the september term module 3. Theres alot to think about and I think the module has been hard but I have enjoyed the process and it has pushed me to gain deeper understandings of my research and has made me find passion to collect and analyze the data.

This week I feel mixed emotions. My inquiry proposal is really coming along and its going in a great direction, I feel I am learning a lot and my research is developing at a great pace. I have completed my MORE application which is due on friday which I am very happy about. I have found this module interesting in terms of the level and amount of work due, but I am scheduling in times each week to work on this module. Whilst watching the recordings of the lectures, I think learning and looking at other peoples opinions and prespectives allows myself to venture down new and interesting avenues that I may not of thought of previously. The literterature review I find most absorbing and rewarding although it's the most difficult for me in terms of putting it on paper i find reading about the topic i have chosen intriguing and exciting.

This will be the first time i have written a blog since i recieved my feedback from my first module. So, i guess the best thing to start off by saying is that i am so super happy with the feedback that was given to me and definetely have noted the little things that i need to watch out for during this next module. It's all about developing and after my one to one i feel confortable going into Module 2. I have a few ideas in which i am interesting in exploring as my research propsal i just know that i need to narrow it down and follow a more specific avenue after doing some more reading. My initial idea was looking into the idea of furthering the understanding of the impact of self-image before a dance audition. This interests me as i am currently auditioning so i know exactly how self-image can potenially impact an entire audition and the effects that it can have in the audition room. After researching i can think about how i personally approach an audition in terms of mindset o...

Reflecting on the past week of making and completing my diagram i am feeling very good about the piece that i have achieved and created. Alot of thought has gone into the concept and watching back the final product made me very emotional. It's a four miunte video and i think the hardest part that i found was editing it all together as i have not edited a video of that length before and adding things like voice over ontop of the videos and music also proved a challenge. Because i felt so passionately about the idea, the videos, the piece of music i really wanted to push for trying these things that i had not done before it made that extra little bit speical. The song that plays throughout the entire video took me ages to find but once i came across it i immediately felt it was incredibaly related to my practise and everything that i had been through in dance to get me to where i am today.

After working hard on my draft essay i came to really enjoy the process and found myself being indulged in reading and expanding what i had already written. i wrote the essay over the course of four afternoons, and i found that once i started writing i couldnt really stop. i did spend alot of time re-reading and writing a few parts to ensure it was to the best of my best ability. While knowing not to put so much pressure on myself for the first draft, i did really want to prove to myself that i could do it and it would be alright. Moving forward, after getting my feedback back, i am super happy and have some points to change and expand on which i will work towards in the coming weeks. i did feel like i really surpised myself and it has given me confidence that i can do this type of work and can now evolve towards really improving my work.