Scattered (first sketch)
I wanted to experiment with stopmotion and the concept of tangled thoughts. While doing this short video I realized it takes a lot more photos to get a seamless stopmotion animation as well as consistent lighting. If I use this concept for my final project I would like to add more layers to the audio to help tell the story as well as more interesting colours to the background. Also I had issues when exporting the file as it made the pictures go very grainy and pixelated so I need to figure out how to fix that. Furthermore, I should have used the full frame but I made the mistake of taking the pictures vertically instead of horizontally.
Remix (second sketch)
I wanted to represent music visually so I decided to use paint and earbuds as a way to show sounds overlapping and creating chaos. I reversed the video and played three royalty free music tracks over each other to represent the three colours. Each song is very different from the others. As the paint starts to separate back into three colours, the music starts to become distinguishable. If I continued with this concept I would want to play with the audio levels more and perhaps use sounds instead of full tracks. The camera work was a bit shaky and out of focus as well so I need to work on that.
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