For the previous assignment, my partner and I opted to take a musical approach, as we felt it was an effective way of showcasing modularity; the musical parts could be interchanged to create something new. For assignment 2, my group and I decided to continue developing this musical approach, but integrate the visual component in a more meaningful way. Our idea as of now is to film one sequence, and allow viewers to change the music as they wish, which we hope will ultimately affect the tone of the scene, despite having the actual footage remain the same. As for the footage, we want to stick with an activity that is emotionally and tonally mutual, which will allow the music to more effectively dictate the mood of the piece at the audience’s discretion.

For the musical direction, we sourced inspiration from various online clips of people re-interpreting songs in different genres. A good example of what we wanted to achieve musically was in Seth Everman’s Youtube video in which he performed the song ‘Africa’ by the band Toto in about a dozen different genres. The song remained the same but the feel and tone changed throughout the video, giving each part a significantly different feel despite playing the same song. This is exactly what we had in mind for the musical component, so we will be creating several different interpretations of the same song and seeing how it affects the tone of our video.

There were other examples we found of musicians playing through a song once and having it change genre as it progressed, but unless you knew the song they were playing it was hard to appreciate the differences between the sections, because the song progressively changed making it hard to compare the styles. For this reason, I think we will just create the chorus of a song, and re-do it for each genre, which will make it easier for the audience to hear the differences.