Digital Storyboarding & Illustration (Composition, Colour, Tempo and Mood)

Digital Storyboarding & Illustration (Composition, Colour, Tempo and Mood)

We sat down and have a small session of learning composition, colour, tempo and mood but mainly tempo and mood. First we were introduced a music video by Woodkid - Run Boy Run

Woodkid - Run Boy Run

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This is the first colourless abstract that we have to do while listening to the music only and draw out an abstract that represents our mood at that specific time

In the beginning of the song there is a gong sound that repeats itself for a few times, hearing this the image of a ripple like wave appears in the head therefore the circle at the top left corner. Then it proceed to stomping like rhythm like soldiers marching followed by a very harsh and chaotic guitar rift. The up and down lines that look like spikes are the representative of the harsh fast and chaotic guitar rifts at a certain point the song slows down into a violin sound that remind me of a river and then it goes into the harsh rifts again almost that the end the music starts to sound like it trying to push you forward like asking you to run forward at the same time a rising feel made by the increasing volume of the violin at the back of the singing.

This is the second abstract that we have to make while listening to the music only this time colour is a must

Similar to the previous exercise, this time the gong sound is replaced with think black lines solid and steady, calm mood followed by the red harsh lines. During a time the song calms back down then continue with the harsh rifts again. Blue line are the representation of the calm river at the end the volume increases with a little of the rifts in the background

The last task is to create a storyboard based on the mood during listening to the song. The storyboard that I've produced is highly influenced by the music video of the song

Here we have the storyboard done for the music, the beginning is portrayed with a montage of a person in different close shot on the leg and hands preparing for something as the scenes are just a person wearing clothing. Then proceeds to a large door in the person's perspective pushing the door opens up to a vast plain with a single long road in the middle. As the camera turns and shows the person, its a soldier preparing his army for battle. During the harsh rifts a slow mo montage of the army on horse back is riding into the target once the music then calms down from the rifts, the army looks up on the hill to find the target there standing in a cloud of darkness. With the rift picking back up the army then charges at the enemy with another slow mo freeze frame following by a black screen as we reach the volume increasing section. Only to instantly move to a scene where the army is victorious as the music ends.

(Edited 8th June 2015)