Lucas Ibbotson - MY Bronze Arts Award Journey

Hi my name is Lucas Ibbotson and I have been working on completing my bronze Arts Award at We are Noise as part of my year 11 options. As part of my journey I have created this blog to show all of my work, I hope you enjoy it. Lucas

In this video I took part in an interview to discuss my journey through music as a young person, right from when I first became interested in music, to the present day - and why I write the lyrics and perform the songs that I do. I wanted this to be a mini bio of my musical life so far, I hope that you enjoy it. Lucas.

Part A - Explore the arts as a participant.

When I first started at We are Noise we discussed what Arts activity I would be best at, and I decided to focus on how to become a singer/songwriter and lyricist. After this I created my Arts Award Plan, which I designed to show my journey in learning to become a recording artist.

In the pictures above you can see work from every session I took part in at We are Noise. The pictures show how I wrote lyrics and songs ideas, recorded in the studio, and created my album covers and social media pages. I was really happy with how everything went each week, and I feel proud that I have completed all of this work. Lucas

The picture above shows my album cover created for my Arts Award Bronze. I have called the album “Passionate” because of my love for music and helping others. We did a photoshoot for it and I am really pleased the final look and edited the cover in Canva.

This is my Soundcloud Homepage, showing my first recorded song “Secrets”. You can see the artwork I created for the song itself and the banner - this was also done in Canva.

This is my interview where I talk about how and why I made my album for the Arts Award project.

Part B : Explore the Arts as an audience member

This is a concert by Micheal Brindley to show me where I could end up with my goals

here is me writing a review on Micheals concert this was for my arts award

These are some of the photos from the concert

This was my review

this was a post concert interview on how the concert influenced me

Part C : Music Inspiration - Jamie Miller

Jamie Miller Article - Buzz Magazine, April 22.

In this section of my Arts Award journey, I have chosen to research Jamie Miller as my musical arts inspiration. During my initial research I decided that it would be interesting to put it all together in a magazine style article. The main reason for this was I felt it would be a different way for other young people to learn about an artist, rather than a Tik-Tok style video. After my research I took part in an interview to discuss why I chose Jamie Miller and how his work inspires me to create my own.