I think that capstone was a great experience and I learned a lot. One of the biggest things I learned was if I put my mind to something I can do it because I thought that capstone would be a huge challange and I proved myself wrong because knowing all my line and practicing a lot really paid off.

This is my presentation

Overall I thought that capstone was a big success and all of my work paid off. All the practice that went into it was worth it.

I had my site visit at msm design with a guy named Mario. He showed me the process of making an advertisement and how an idea can turn into a advertisement. He showed me all the steps behind making a advertisement. I learned that before making an advertisement you have to research.

He started his company msm design by himself and in total there is about 15 employees total. One thing that I found interesting was the graphic design there was only one person doing all the graphic designs and I thought that was cool. Over all I learned so much from my site visit and it really helped me with my capstone.

Earlier this week I had my capstone interview with Gina Waldman. She works with a advertisement agency called clear channel. I learned a lot and definitely benefited from this experience, also all of my interview questions were answered. She taught me so much and I found out so many things about advertising that I never knew before. The thing I found most interesting was the different roles in advertising because if you work in the advertising you can have a job creating a advertisement or a completely different job like selling billboards. From that I learned that advertising is a big industry and there are so many parts that go into just one advertisement.

Capstone is a inquiry-based research project which means it is a question based project, and if think about, it all good research starts with a question. This research project is a big project because this is the last project we are doing to wrap up our 5th grade year.

I decided to on my topic advertising because I knew I wanted to have my topic involve something with a big brand. So I started thinking and I came up with advertising for big brands. The next thing I had to do was see if I could spend 6 weeks with the topic advertising and I knew I was very interested in it so that’s how I decided on advertising.To decide on a main research question it was helpful for me to make a mind map. A mind map is when you write your topic in the middle of a piece of paper and make a web with different subtopics. I had trouble with finding a main research question and as I said before I found success by making a mind map. My next steps are finding resources for research and coming up with sub questions. Something in the future I may need help with are my sub questions.