Blog Post 2 – Assignment 3

After further discussion regarding our assignment, we have decided to make the footage more integral to the experiment, and have more modularity between the visual and aural components. Instead of having a fixed video between all the genres of songs, we want to film different videos in response to the tone of the music. Michelle came up with the idea of filming different styles of dancing that correspond with the music, which will provide a better example of modularity rather than just one video across all the songs. We also thought that having different videos for each genre of music would be a good way of showing the audience what they are listening to, and will discuss these ideas further as a group.

We also discussed out idea with other groups who also offered suggestions as to how we can make our project more effective. Some suggestions included going back to our original idea of having a tonaly mutual video component, as having dance styles reflect the audio left less up to audience interpretation, and we agreed that it would be a more interesting project of there was some ambiguity towards how the viewer is supposed to feel when watching one of our scenes.

We also got to hear about other groups presentations, which helped us a lot in coming up with new ideas and finding inspiration.

I was in charge of creating the music in this project, so I continued to research and look up how artists manipulate the tones of songs to achieve a certain emotion. Many styles of music have a certain melodic or rhythmic structure which made it easier for me to warp our song of choice into a different style. We have settled on 8 different styles each going for 45 seconds, as we want the videos to be full scenes and not just quick clips, so that the audience has time to appreciate the differences in our films. And also because I don’t want to make 20 songs. I stuck with the idea of using one chorus, as it is still the best way to illustrate the differences between the genres to the audience in a memorable way.

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