Project: Music Inspired Imagery - Voyage

Don't you just want to fall asleep? And not in a bad way either! I was already feeling rather relaxed and calm 'before' watching this video, but now I really do feel like simply nodding off :). Ok, moving away from the fact it makes you want to sleep.

Created by filmmaker, Marco Aslan, "nostalgia" is the perfect word for his work. This video in particular is quite useful for both of my songs because with "Dead Flag Blues" I think of old fashioned, and old, which are two words that can be used to describe the style of this video. "Imagine" is quite a fast-paced and joy-filled song filled with realisations, so rather than the style which is at a far slower pace I thought that the content was quite suiting because you see all these warm happy moments with lots of smiling faces.

I realise that we are simply creating still imagery, but I still believe that the style of the video and how it captures that perfect moment are still great sources of inspiration and ideas. The style is probably the main aspect I would like to try and interpret, but really all that is changing is that rather than using a video camera I'm going to use a photo camera. Anyways, time to nod off :)

Project: Music Inspired Imagery - Video

The Google Story, a lovely trip down memory lane to the times of the simple and watching as it evolves into the powerhouse of the internet. I'm not so interested in the content of the video though as it's more the way and style it is done in that caught my attention and made me think "Hey, this could be useful for my own video!".

The narrative form that this story took is what made me think of using this type of thing for one of my songs, "Dead Flag Blues", because that is also spoken/sung in a narrative form. What is being presented in the video is slightly quirky and fun which is basically the opposite of "Dead Flag Blues" which speaks of the corpses of dead babies, so I thought I could use the way it's shown from a birds-eye view and then have something different being shown. I'm not sure whether using the way the camera moves would be a good idea, maybe a singular slow motion across a horizontal line would be more fitting for the smooth melodic tone of my song choice.

I'm thinking of showing something like my actual storyboard, and then have it evolve into video footage of whatever I have planned for the final draft. Then it finally becomes this dark and lonely world of horror surrounded by some sort of negativity. Or I could simply skip the evolution bit and go straight to the video itself, but instead of a video I could do it in the style of a book with the video footage inside the pages (complete with turning pages!). This is where the styling comes in quite heavily in order to create this atmosphere that represents the contents of the video without knowing what the content actually is. I'll need to collect some more imagery that matches this goal of mine though just so I can explore all the possibilities.