Gaelic Music video Finished!

Well that it all finished and ready to be sent away. I am so so happy with the results. I think it compliments and enhances the music while staying sympathetic the melody.

What I wanted to create

-I wanted to create a part abstract film about a lazy Sunday walk playing on the fact that the song is a modern take on a "walking" style song
-I wanted to have shots that provoked a nostalgic feeling to symbolize the past/happy memories
-I wanted to include movement to symbolize travel and loved ones that aren't close by
-I wanted to create a airy, silky piece of visuals that harmonized with the melody.
-As Gaelic is a small language, I had to make sure the visuals conveyed the essence of the song so that non-Gaelic viewers could understand the song.

I feel I have accomplished everything that I set out to achieve. I have learned so much in after effect and premier pro through trial and error and good tutorials.

So here it is...hope you enjoy it.. and lets hope that I win :D

Train media test

So I have been playing around with the train media test and I wanted to add a nice flow and soft textured look to one of them so here is the test. I have tried it with another track just to see how the atmosphere is affected. It was just a test but it will be going in the Gaelic music video (minus the soundtrack)

visual cue/ textural media test

Ok so here is the video I have been working on for the past few days.. I started just editing the videos back to back but then some of the sounds were being played at the same time so I added a more graphical style by using cropped videos and graphical black edges. In comparison to the first edit this works so much better aesthetically, and even though the video moves quite fast you can get a real sense of dynamic movement and rhythm that is copying the dynamic movement and rhythm in the music.

Music for visual cue/textured video

Here is the music that I will be using for my video, I have uploaded it just onto youtube so you can listen to it directly on the blog and dont have to go onto another page

Idea for textured/visual cue video

OK! So I have talked before about wanting to make a visual cue/ textured video taking inspiration from beardymans "monkey jazz" video. I was struggling to find a song and I was lying in bed last night and I was scanning my mind for possible music tracks that would be interesting to use for this media test. Then it popped into my mind. In first year we did an audio module and one of the tasks was to make a ringtone for yourself that best describes you. So for that task I decided to make a ringtone out of the objects I had one my desk. They were things that I used everyday and pretty much summed up my life so I thought it would be an interesting idea. So I did it, it worked out really well and got a B+ for it.

Now, when I remembered about it last night I thought, why not use this as the music for the media test. It describes you and it currently has no visual representation for it. So that's what I am going to do!

Visual cue/ textural storyboards

Hallowennnnnn-media test

Drawing class this week was based around halloween seeing as it was the next day! So I had fun filming lots of spooky pumpkins, but what I really loved was the flicker of the candle and how it added movement through out the hole pumpkin. I wanted to exploit that movement so I basically turned the contrast to max and got rid of any colour so I created a weird black and white ghost that looked like he was moving and transforming when it was actually the light inside. I added a texture to the back of the video and I felt the video lacked any depth and this (cushion being moved) added a nice deep purple texture and extra movement going in the opposite direction of the candle. 

I sourced the sound from freesound.org

(I cant remember the audio clip, I will put up the source once I find the exact audio clip link)

Standing doing the dishes one day...

So here I was doing the dishes and the washing machine was on, they way our kitchen is laid out, the washing machine is under the drying board for the sink so very close. Then it started going onto a high fast spin and the water in my basin starting to produce really cool, water waves and patterns and it was like a light bulb going off in my head! why not try and put things onto the washing machine to make movement! Right so I get to it and grab the first thing I think of... salt. So I pull my washing machine and cover the entire top with a layer of salt.

What happen, did not happen like this....no way near it, but it did kind of do the transitions a little bit...

So here I am making an awful job at trying to make the salt move, the only kind of cool thing is I drew squiggles in the salt and the movement of the washing machine evened it out. But over all the salt test was a little bit of a fail. I will have to come back to it and try the washing machine with different things, maybe go back and play with water and that seemed to work pretty well....

THENNNNN

I whipped out the hoover to get rid of the mess that I had created and what happened was just so amazing!

It just looked so so amazing, it was like little tiny sand dunes in the sahara desert and the hoover was creating these amazing "sand storms" and cool patterns.

Textures in video- idea

Ive been looking quite a lot into textural videos, and one that particularly inspired/motivated me was this fine member-

 I absolutely love this video! I love how he uses visual cues like a hats, shoes, sunglasses and colours in the background so the viewer can easily distinguish between the different parts of the song. I love how for example when the sound is defused, the visuals go blurred to visualize that and the movement shows how the sound is moving. Take a look at it and be amazed, its brilliant!

I would really like to try something like this as a media test. My video from last year was in "imagination will take you everywhere" It was in an installation of  TV screens and that is the way it was presented, but with lots of different videos too. My idea was if I had all 7 and each screen visualized different parts of the music. For example, when a sound is quite, the visual cue for that sound would be on a small screen and when it gets louder it would slide on to a big screen. I want it to look like all 7 videos are connected, when really they are not.

Week 2 drawing class

This week for our class drawing class it was my turn with a fellow classmate to make the still life set up, as we where both interesting in video and photography we decided to make a moving set up. We used a multitude of textures, materials etc and used a fan to get movement out of them. Realistically we needed more than one fan but we had to work with what we had. I took multiple videos and still images, trying to capture the movement of the materials. I have the raw footage that still needs edited and I am going to use the footage I took to use for tutorials to expand my knowledge on after effects as previously I have only used final cut pro so I think it would be an advantage to have experience in both. So for now here is so imagery of our set up, videos will follow soon!