Independent Component 2

Independent Component 2 Log

http://youtu.be/r5LdZciZZc4    -   Not Alone

http://youtu.be/rNywUuVbTR8   -  She Will Be Loved

http://youtu.be/_EvsarsAiwc     -    Forget You

http://youtu.be/17UnEsbMq9U    -   Party in the USA

Literal:

a) I, Alicia Sepulveda, affirm that I affirm that I completed my independent component which represents 30 hours of work.

b) What I did was I learned four songs in ASL/Sing signing. After I learned these songs I recorded myself performing them and uploaded them to Youtube.

Interpretive:

What I did has to be one of the toughest and most rewarding things I have ever done. It took me while to actually learn each of these songs. One might think that I could learn them in a day, and maybe that is true, but that would be a day of 24 hours non-stop working. Learning Not Alone took me quite a bit of time because it was the first one that I tried to learn. It was a slow process learning it because I had never sat down to learn a song is sign before. Then there were some signs that the person I was watching was doing that I knew differently so I had to fix it to fit my way of signing. I wasn't able to work on any one song for longer than maybe 3 hours ans some change, which meant that every time I went to practice I had to learn the parts over again. 

When I finally moved on to She Will Be Loved I had a very tough time. In that song there are so many different ways to sign any given part that I had to search for the way I wanted to sign it. I found a videos of multiple people doing the song and none of them were really what I wanted to sign. What I ended up doing for that song is working with my sister to get a interpretation that as completely my own, and then looking at another video if I was having trouble with any part of the song. It was a difficult to combine my style and the style of the person I was watching so that I could get something that was mine but was accurate. 

After She Will Be Loved I moved on to Forget You. This was the most difficult song for me to learn. Moving from nice slow songs to this was a really hard transition. The up-tempo of the song made it so that even when I was learning it I would miss words here and there. That made it difficult when I would come back another day to learn or practice and I would realize that I missed a bunch of words. When I was filming I had a very difficult time with it too, where as the other songs took me at most 13 takes this one took me about 23 takes. I would trip over my hands when I was trying to sign or I would get on a roll and someone would interrupt me and I would try to do it again and fail. 

With Forget You done it was on to Party in the USA. Party in the USA was very fun to learn at the same time that it might have been more difficult that Forget you for me. Party in the USA was the only song that I did complete ASL no real sing sign. I always wanted to add more words than I needed when I was learning PitUSA. I have a lot to thank the original signer for because he really did make it fun for me to learn. When I was filming it only took me 15 takes and I had fun every time, unlike when I did Forget You and I kept getting frustrated.

All of this took a lot out of me and was over 30 hours of work. Just the taking the time to learn the songs was 30 hours. It was harder for me to learn the songs because my mind would not accept what I was learning. It is much harder to learn ASL when I already have Spanish and English competing for my attention in my brain. It was a mental work out but I really feel that I got a lot out of all of that work.

Applied:

This helped me answer my EQ in more than one way. It honestly showed me that in order to learn sign and know how to put things together I needed to know sign language. That being my third answer it gave me confidence in it. It would have been easier for my to learn the songs if I had a great understanding of ASL but because I didn't this helped expand the working knowledge that I already had. It also showed me that even in sign signing you have to be versatile in you signing styles. You can sign word for word what a song is saying, or very much like ASL you can tell a story. Having all of that I could say that I got validation for my answers and a new explanation for my second one.