Metacognition: Mashup

Creating my mashup was an interesting thing to do.  I found it very difficult at times to figure out the perfect choice for each requirement.  Before I started it, I thought it would be a lot easier than it actually ended up being.  I didn't take into consideration how difficult it would be to create something that sounds like it is one idea that flows smoothly.

My first step in creating the mashup was choosing a topic I feel like I could connect a bunch of different humanities works in.  I figured solitude would be a great choice, because I knew that Rainer Maria Rilke wrote a lot about it in Letters to a Young Poet.  

Next, I made a checklist of all of the elements I needed to imcorporate in the mashup.  I knew this would be the most organized and simplest way of keeping track of all of the 19 elements I had to include.  I then tried to think of memorable quotes about the subject that I had heard in some of the works we've covered.  I chose a few important ones, then I tried to put them into an order I thought might end up working.

As I took a break for the night, I would be listening to music and just thinking to myself some things that could work for the mashup, and a song I liked came on, and I heard some lyrics that I thought would fit perfectly into part of my mashup.

I finished the mashup by searching for pictures to fill in the breaks and thoughts in my ideas.  I tried to choose ones that seemed like they would tie together the thoughts.  

I think that the order I did all of this in was very organized, and I'm glad I completed it like this, because I don't think I'd want to have done it another way.