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

Textured songs

Ive been listening to quite a lot of songs, varied in everything you can think of, from old jazz to songs like these:

I LOVE the introduction to this song, it is full of texture, layers, movement, tone, rhythm. The introduction has really inspired me to create something quite textural in the way of a video for the introduction. I've also been really inspired by how Beardyman's video "monkey jazz" has been created. During the song, as Beardyman builds up the song he uses visual cues like hats of sunglasses to distinguish between each layers of the song. He also uses colour in the background to distinguish the different layers as well as hand gestures, movement of the videos that copy the movement of the song. Even better when the sound is defused, the images too become fuzzed to further represent how the song is working. The graphical style that has been applied to the overall video ties everything in so well. I cant describe enough how much I really love this video due to the way the video has added so much to the music and it stimulates both the ear and the ear. You can appreciate so much more as to how a song like that has to be built up in layers and the technicality put into it.

Here it is in all its glory for you to make your own mind up!