Report on My Interviews

My interviews were very informative an interesting. I learned a lot about my field and the different genres professionals in my field use to create work and communicate with others.

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1. What are the most significant or interesting genres that you learned about from your interviewees? Please identify at least THREE specific genres from your discipline/field of study that your interview subjects discussed writing within. 

• Three specific and interesting genres that my interview subjects talked about were choreography, writing grants, and writing resumes. 

 

2. How do these genres differ from one another? Think about things like genre convention, content, purpose, audience, message, and context as you describe these differences.

• Each of these genres have very different conventions. Choreography is a visual way of communicating with your audience. Its purpose is to evoke emotions or feelings from the audience through the movement. It can be performed on stage, or wherever the choreographer choses, and can be shown in front of audiences who have prior knowledge about dance, or no knowledge about dance at all. Writing grants is a skill choreographers with less money need to have. In order to produce a show and rent a theatre, one needs enough money, so writing grants is very important. In the grant, you must state why you need the money and why they should give it to you. Your audience is whoever has the money to fund the arts and is giving away grants. Writing resumes is also very different from the other two genres. As a dancer, a well written resume can help you get jobs. The resume must include, your skills, training, experience, and contact information in an easy to read format. Your audience is whoever you are trying to get a job from. 

3. Based on the information you gathered in your interviews, what is challenging and/or difficult about writing within these genres (from a professional's point of view)?

• Choreography is challenging because sometimes you can’t find a time when all of your dancers can meet, or the audience interprets the dance differently than you wanted them too. Writing grants is hard because no one really teaches who this skill. You either have to ask a friend who has written one before or figure it out yourself. Writing your resume is challenging because you want to fit it onto one paper, while still including all of the information, in a format that includes white space for your readers. 

4. Based on the information you gathered in your interviews, what is exciting and/or rewarding about writing within these genres (from a professional's point of view)?

• Choreography is very exciting when you are complete. It is very satisfying and exhilarating to see what you imagined in your mind come to life on stage. It is very rewarding to figure out how to write a grant, and if you wrote it well enough, actually receiving the grant to continue with your project. Resumes are also very rewarding if they help you get the job. 

5. Where in mass media - popular, academic, and/or social - can examples of this genre be found? If genre examples cannot be found within mass media easily, where can genre examples be found/located?

• Choreography can be found in many places including Youtube, Facebook, or Vimeo. Grants can not be found in mass media. Those are only seen by the individuals giving the funding for the project. Resume’s can be found on websites such as LinkedIn or agencies for dancers.