Negotiated Brief - Music Video

For this we are given free reign and can do anything we like (so long as it is related to animation.) This is a great chance for me to explore and develop some of my own ideas and techniques of producing animation. I'm also hoping to develop a personal style and look to my work. As I enjoy linking visuals to music I have decided to do a video for my musician friend Nathan (Lazulene is his music alias). Click on the link below to listen to the tune I will be doing the visuals to. It's called Terrestrial Sci Fi.

So far I have done a fair amount of research watching music videos and audio visual albums. I have done several mind maps and also produced artwork and written down ideas, thoughts and feelings whilst listening to the track. My new Sony Nex5 camera will come in handy, I have just ordered an intervalometer for it which will be useful for time lapses (I'm looking forward to doing a sunrise time lapse which I reckon will suit the latter half of the track.)

I will go on continuing the pre-production stage for another couple of days and hopefully end up with a rough storyboard. I'm considering that it may be wiser to aim to produce just a few clips to fit different parts of the track as it is a bit of a tight deadline (less then 4 weeks, taking into account the Mapping and Audio Visual festival in Geneva.)

Here is my work space :-)

Here is my work, initial doodling, research notes and ideas:

These show my thoughts/ideas/feelings that I got whilst listening to the music..

The 3 pages above condensed into one page..

Heres my visual response whilst listening to the music - These have been fun to do and should hopefully come in useful..

Some experiments with using cellulose thinner applied through magazine/printed imagery onto blank paper..

I like African and Aboriginal art - the visual look of it may help feed into my animations..