APD_Week 8 Play and Time

Theme: 

Play and Time

Method:

After Effects

Context：

These two videos attached below are good examples to show how to visualize music in animation and how to use the symbols' movement, quantity, and size to match the rhythm or emotion of the music.

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av22192941/?spm_id_from=333.788.videocard.8

https://www.bilibili.com/video/av3726046?from=search&seid=992728383780356110

Response：

Week7 I did research on graphic notation, it was about stillness visualize symbols of music. As continue, this week I focused on how to visualize music in animation, which means how to make these symbols move fluently in the animation. I chose a kind of rigoroso music and the main visual symbol elements to present the music I chose were dots and lines. During this excrise, I realized that one key point of combination is time. The music had its own special rhythm points. It was important to match the patterns in each rhythm point. In this 32 seconds vedio, there were 15 rhythm points, so I made 15 main dots to represent the main rhythm points. Cause these 15 rhythm points were homogeneous distribution so I put the 15 dots on a circle, and the distance between each point was same. When the music reached to certain rhythm point, the matching dots would appear. Time helped me to record the rhythm points easily, it became a skill when I deal with my studio project, at first I would use time to record the main points, and then draw symbols to represent them.