Quarter 1 Reflection - Creativity

SGA

The Student Government Association was very busy this quarter. As Communication’s Officer I’ve had to make a ton of posters promoting SGA and sports and drama events. It’s been a lot of fun, and I’ve gained a lot more experience on digital design as well as on paper. I’ve also gained a bit of experience on how business meeting are run and how meeting minutes work.
The first SGA event of the year was the Back-to-school event. We decided on a movie night this year, playing Shrek 2. My first promotional poster was a digital one made with Photoshop and posted on Facebook.

The next SGA even was a spirit day which we had themed as Nerd day. This time I made several small A4 posters and put them up around the school as well as employed the help of some of the reps to make digital posters to post on Facebook.

Our next spirit day was in support of the various SAISA teams and the senior drama production competition. This time it was Halloween themed and I employed the same methods of advertising as last time, with the addition of sandwich boards to use as walking, talking, advocating advertising. I think that the sandwich board method worked best as they were very flashy and unorthodox so it stuck in people’s memories and reminded them to show their support. For this spirit day we also made it a contest for the grade who had the most people dressed up, and the prize would be a mini party with cakes and candy. This spirit day was by far more successful in terms of people who dressed up, most probably because of the advertising and prize, not to mention the fun theme.

Next, I made a lot of posters (both digital and handmade) promoting the sports matches and meets, and the drama production, as well as some good luck posters for the players and performers from the SGA.

One of my other duties as Communication’s Officer includes taking the meeting minutes every week for the SGA meetings during lunch on Wednesdays. By getting advice from my dad, the internet and the other SGA members, I was able to make my own template to summarize the discussions during the meetings and to efficiently give out jobs and assignments.

Drawing club

This quarter I used up a lot of my drawing club time making posters for the SGA. I have not really been able to fulfil my goal of trying to improve my drawing skills. This is something that I definitely need to work on next quarter and semester.

Private piano lessons

I forgot to put this in my DP1 goals at the beginning of the year, but I have been taking piano lessons since last year at school. My goal for this year is to play a piece completely without marking the notes on the paper or the keys on the piano. So far, I have improved a little bit by not needing to write down the notes for the treble clef but I still struggle to remember the bass.