Music Video - Idea

For this brief, we have been asked to make a video to a track selected from the freemusicarchive.com.
This has provided an opportunity to be expansively creative and utilize many of the skills learned in previous modules.
The main creative challenge is that we have to work in groups. Each taking on an individual roll in the making and production processes of the piece.

Ken - art director
Will - director
Ben - Editor and Visual effects.

I have chosen
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/AlexandreDavidGabriel/la_plage/5-la_route


Imagery and thoughts from listening to the track.....

Discordant, noise, poetry, beat, minimal, stylisation, colour, original, innocence and creativity, naivety, abrasive yet flowing and rythemitical, sleaze, culture, character, open expanses, travel,....

I chose this track because i have never heard anything like it, and over recent months, i have started to read more poetry. This coupled with the last project where i was given the opportunity to learn more about Jim Morrison and his writing, songs and poems, i felt i wanted to explore this spoken word theme further. I think it sets up a creative challenge to make something visually that faithfully represents the sounds expressed in the piece. It is crafted superbly and has such a strong character.

My initial idea is to do with the relationship between harmony and discord. I want the video to be an absolute reaction to the sounds in the audio. And although the sounds in the audio work in harmony, i feel there is a lot of confliction in the music. Its abrasive in nature, yet strangely calming...... Film multiple sky shots. Blue sky, hazy with bold defined cloud coverage. Film over extended periods of time from multiple but specific locations. It would be an experiment with harmonious visuals and colours representing tones from the audio. Expression could be found in manipulating the colour, using colour theory, using the clouds and information in the sky to represent sounds and acute changes in the music. I like the idea of this with scratchy lines and interference or 'noise' to emphasise obscurities and convulsions in the music.
The juxtaposition of contrasting imagery and sound could provide some interesting results.
Most important is to replicate the feel of the track in the video.

This would also mean i could further certain aspects from projects in the past and develop the themes further.
Mid 80's decadence and the 'vice' colour theme, typography and use of text/foreign language, clean concise and direct imagery.

Want to push further into Aftereffets. Thinking initial editing will be done in Final cut, then straight into Aftereffects for the main chunk of the project including layering, effects and post production elements. I would also like to incorporate some element of 3d. Whether this is imported in from maya or the basic 3d functions in Aftereffects. And i would like to use audio key framing to have elements reacting precisely to the wave form of the audio....
This has been one of the most exciting features of aftereffects for me.
Would love to experiment with Max..