Self Evaluation

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Colour and music are often used for more general purposes - they can, and have been used as means to the ends of religion, politics, commerce, recreation and therapy.
Just as therapy, I had the idea of my project.
From a research about a blind student, who had to read coloured maps of the upper atmosphere, he created with some help a software that transform the colours into musical notes.
So my idea was the other way around; can deaf people listen to music? Looking at piece of art created by transforming music into colours the person can interpret the music!
I just wanted to create a software that is able to transform music into colours and, to make it more effective, a vibration device will be added to my project.
So anytime someone wants to listen to music from internet or just simply play a cd from his/her computer, he/she can play it through the software and enjoy the music.
He/she will place his/her hand on the vibrator device and while the music is playing he/she will feel the vibrations. At the same time he/she will watch the changing and movement of the colours on the screen depending on the melody played. The colours, of course, depend on the tone and sound; higher is the tone, lighter is the colour.
The main purpose of this project is not to create a web site, but is to create a software that can be downloaded from internet or it can be available and integrated in any music web sites.
What I have really created, differs from the original project, this is because of luck of knowledge of programming. Unfortunately I have never studied programming or processing so I have found really difficult to realize my original idea.
Thanks to Julie I could create my project in flash.
It is a simple prototype, but quite self -explanatory and it shows exactly what I had in mind, even if it doesn’t really transform music into colours.

If I have to evaluate myself, these will be my marks:

1. Research Skills 9 (good research)
2. Contextual Awareness 8
3. Synthesis of research material 9 (good writing and visualization)
4. Critical Analysis of subject 9 (well explained)
5. Creativity, originality and innovation 9
6. Application of theory of practice 7 (luck of knowledge of programming)
7. Technical Development 8 (good use of flash)
8. Rationality & Realisation 8
9. Organisation & Time-planning 8
10. Presentation & Documentation 8

Of course since at the beginning of the course, we have been told that we shouldn’t be worried by the technology. That is what I did. I had my idea and I hope I am not going to be penalized because I couldn’t create a real software.
At the end of this module I have learnt theoretically to develop a new idea but practically, except of trying to create it using a software I already knew, I didn’t learn anything new. As I said at the beginning of the module, during the second and third level, I am not really improving any skills, but I am just repeating the same things. Anyway I did my best.