Narrative Project: Storyboard

This is my basic idea for the progression of my video, i will be doing it in two stages (Verse/Chorus) I have progressed with basic visuals and decided to go for a mix of space and water creating a dreamlike stage moving into a sky based stage with more focused type to get the more prominent words of the chorus across. I will be doing this all with motion and using strong aspects that compliment music such as stuttering typography, distorted visuals and music spectrum (a moving representation of volume) to combine with the predominately type based project.

Narrative: Song choice

This is the song i have chosen to use in my composition, i will only be using the first verse and the chorus to cover the storyline of the song, and to keep my composition to a more desirable length of around two minutes.

Narrative: Basic Visuals

As an idea of what i will be producing, i found these images which when combined with the song i have chosen i think will provide an insight into the sort of visuals i am looking into producing, obviously reproducing this sort of visual with motion graphics: Especially with a program i am extremely inexperienced with using will be difficult, but i am looking into plug-ins and methods to help produce my desired final product.

Narrative Project And initial ideas

I am now producing my narrative project for my new brief, instead of choosing an existing story or fable, i have gone with the option to gear my production to a piece of video, i will be producing this video on mainly After effects, using lot's of kinetic type and strong mysterious visuals, the song i have chosen to use is Jetpacks was Yes! by Periphery, i feel the strong storyline elements of the song combined with the crazy breakbeat and electronic start will make for interesting compositions and would work well with the style of visuals i am aiming to produce.

I decided on this line of design by first choosing a topic from the brief out of two i had in mind, and then picking this song out of several due to implications of using them.

Initially i was choosing between: Good and Evil / Journey based narrative
My initial ideas for good and evil were as follows:

- Stopmotion incorporating yin and yang and the japanese Legend of it:
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde story done in two minutes using After effects

Both of these ideas proved laborious and were not worth spending time on, when a much simpler idea could achieve a much better outcome, so i chose to do a journey, using after effects over stopmotion to make it more interesting.

i then decided to do it to music, using a song based on a narrative, so i had to chose between a number of songs I had in mind, which took a very long time.

String is my thing

So for my new project i have too work with a 2 meter length of string, and with it tell a story. This is a REALLY open brief, with the final piece having to be represented in print, this is my final idea for this, which went along a few paths and led back onto itself, initially moving away from this idea i decided it was better than the alternative i had been working on, which was quite a setback.

this image is a representation of my morning routine, anchored from the centre of my room in bournemouth to all the stuff i usually do throughout the course of a day.

Postcard: Final piece

Postcard: The new design

Ive been working on this for a few hours now, and i really think this typographic design has come along wildly, i made the headline into some 3d text and as im only meant to be using text, replaced the body elements like the perspective grid with words instead of solid colours, the effect is quite modern looking, i used a crazy font for the 3d.