Salt crystals...a good idea to begin with...

I really like Bonobo- Circus, even though, the visuals for this video are really really cool and creative, when I heard this song, all the metallic kind of sterile sounds made me visualize like a science lab or something like that? With footage of petri dishes and test tubes, different colour dyes and bacteria growing in time lapses. So I remembered when I was at school, we grew salt crystals, but my memory could remember how long they took to grow. So I did some research online and some said they grew overnight and I thought FANTASTIC, I can do a really cool time lapse for the video.........2 weeks later...they have grown to a decent size.... ahh well, I tried, here is the photographic evidence


Before

 After

Song I wanted to make visuals for:

Colour/note association test

I really wanted to try and just use pure colour to visualize the song. I was planning on usings Isaac Newtons colour theory but he had only done the key notes, and note sharps and flats so I used  Louis Bertrand Castel's instead. I feel it has been a pretty successfull test but I think I will try and blend the colours into each other for my next test and I am also not too sure about the split of the left and right hand, although  visually that is how the song is played

Filmg competition

Well today is the last day to vote so I have been pulling out all the stops to get people to go and view my video. The local paper wrote an article about me and someone else wrote an online article, so I've had a ton of support from the local community which is great. 3 weeks today and I will find out the results :)

Online article can be viewed here : http://personals.ljrandco.co.uk/luke/my-friend-amy-the-gaelic-short-film-competition/

Songs

Well I had a chat with David today as I missed him yesterday and I told him about my predicament and he told me about a box of cds in the whitespace that are copyright free. So I went down and had a rummage and this is what I came back with... so this is my job for the day!

Meeting with Belinda

I unfortuanlly missed David this morning as I had a doctors appointment, but I went into uni just so I could still have a meeting-ish and luckily Belinda was there so I had a chat with her. So my agenda last week was to find my final song. But I was struggling to find a song, dont get me wrong, theres lots of songs that I could use but I was in a little bit of a mixed mind.

1. I want to take a really famous orchestral song that everyone knows and associates a particular thing with like "bolero" with ice skating and make a new set of visuals that completely changes that.

2. I had two songs that I really like these two:

My only problem with using these songs is I wouldnt be able to do anything with my installation after uni because of the copyright. I just really love the textural elements to both the songs.

3. Find a song that doesnt have any copyright.... Im still working on finding one that would be suitable. I have emailed Yann Seznec that gave me the song for my final 3rd piece in the hope that he might have something and I have also emailed some local bands and orchestras. We will just have to wait and see!

So this is pretty much what I talked to Belinda about and she can see my predicament so what I have decided to do is not pick one song at this moment in time but to pick a few and then do a few sets of visuals and do a ton of media tests which will hopefully help my thought process

More info about the Awards Ceremony

Some orchestral pieces

Here are some piece of music that I quite like and could be used as my final track