Final Project - DECISION MAKING AND EXPLORATION TIME

It was a decission making time wheater I should create visuals for the classical music or choose other direction for my final project. Then I went to see LSO Orchestra plying in St. Lukes church.




Orchestra was great, but since I was trying to create visuals in my head I found the whole experience a bit overwhelming. The space we were in, wasn't like a grand hall, we were pretty close to the orchestra and all our attention was concentrated on it. While I was thinking about visuals, it felt, that there is no room for it. We were fully entertained watching conductor every instrument and every performer. The space was a bit too bright, which envolved us even more in the orchestra's performance. So all this said, I think it's very important to choose the right place in order for audiovisuals to work well, that music and viuals would balance each other and give the best entertainment to the viewer.
Listening to the classical pieces(Mozart,Bach, Beethoven), the orchestra was playing I wasn't sure if that's the classical music I would want to create visuals for. The pieces were so rich, occupying people's minds and the whole room, it felt that there was no room for anything else.

After all this experience I discovered contemporary classical music, which I thought would work better with visuals.
Ludovico Einaudi, O'lafur Arnalds, Steve Reich, Roberto Cacciapaglia etc. Their music is lighter has more room for the story and interpretation.

This video was made for O'lafur Arnalds piece:


Ólafur Arnalds - 3055 from Erased Tapes on Vimeo.


I want to explore Roberto Cacciapaglia's music in particular, tell the story in a similar way that was done in Olafur's video.

Here are some tests I did trying rotoscoping and 3d stroke filters:










Secondary research and inspiration:











Sophie Clements is the artist I just discovered. Her work is very original and very interesting.

Vhttp://www.sophieclements.com/

Magnetosphere: Audio by Trentemoller
by flight404

My Secret Heart is a new commission by Streetwise Opera of a music and film installation written by electronic composer and Warp artist Mira Calix, video artists Flat-e and sound designer Dave Sheppard. The new piece is inspired by the Allegri's 17th-century choral work Miserere Mei, a piece so protected by the Vatican that they put an embargo on it.



My Secret Heart from Flat-e on Vimeo.

YCN project outcome

Current TV idents. I left the initial idea, where the cubes are visiting many different venues and chose to create a separate ident for each location. Cubes are a metaphor for people, who are visiting different venues, exploring, collaborating and bringing news to Current TV. Current TV covers different topics: culture, politics, arts, science, technology etc. Each TV Ident represent one of those topics. For the first TV ident I chose Tate Modern, which covers art topic.



The second TV ident represents teens and their culture, since Current TV's audience is 16-30.