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Combing different footages that I've made for 1 music video

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Combing different footages that I've made for 1 music video

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Trying to combine visual FX wit 3D renders for glitchy abstraction.

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Trying to combine visual FX wit 3D renders for glitchy abstraction.

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inspired to make glitchy abstract patterns for electronic music like Max Cooper's MV

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inspired to make glitchy abstract patterns for electronic music like Max Cooper's MV

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I assisted next in set up tables and lights

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Aphex Twin upbeat music visuals by Weirdcore from London is my inspiration for making 3D render

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Aphex Twin upbeat music visuals by Weirdcore from London is my inspiration for making 3D render

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I plan to make bouncy building for my music visual

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I combined different made up footage in 3D renders and After Effects for this music video. I used mainly After Effects stock plugins fx, and I paid for third party fx called AE pixel sorter. I just did this to try using After Effects stock plugins for experiment with the software. I tried to make it psychedelic and colorful

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3d render with after effects 1

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DragonCS 3D MV - Zen Garden (Trap Remix) (feat. MaysaChan aka. SnailPot Studio)

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The buildings are bouncing up and down because I plan to use it on my upbeat music visuals

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Roblox Doge Synthwave MV - Time Loop City (version 2)

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An Optical Poem - produced by Oskar Fischinger  1938

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Max Cooper - Repetition (Official Video By Kevin McGloughlin)

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Joep Beving - Hanging D (Max Cooper Remix) Official Video by Ksawery Komputery

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MaxCooper - Identity (Official Video by Pylik)

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Max Cooper - Penrose Tiling (official video by Jessica In)

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Max Cooper - Leaving This Place (Official Video by Jazer Giles)

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Max Cooper - Transcendental Tree Map (Official video by Martin Krzywinski and Nick Cobby)

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Inspiration: Max Hattler's Serial Parallels

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Inspiration: Max Hattler's Serial Parallels

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Max Hattler likes abstract narrative storytelling instead of straight forward. He likes abstract because audiences can have their own interpretations of their work from the work's atmosphere and environment without clear storytelling.

Serial parallel's repetitive and monotone depicts Hong Kong's buildings showing dystopian environment like in the Matrix. It has a dark feeling to it.

The music is monotonous, repetitive and dark that it shows machine-like aesthetic.

Summary of Max Hattler's interviews of Serial Parallels.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cP6bALA9mWA&t=899s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ze9vO6b621Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDTMGg3IRaw

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Inspiration for my visuals of repetitive classical music microproject

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Inspiration for my visuals of repetitive classical music microproject

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I'm trying to depict the repetitive nature of practicing and playing classical music from my decades of experience playing piano. The visuals will be repetitive sheet music photos and piano keys layer into each frames to create an animation. The shots will be in different angles and rotation. I will also film my hands movements.

My work is going to depict repetitive nature of practicing and playing classical music, and from my experience it gives me both joy and struggle at the same time. I like playing the same pieces over and over again for the sake of enjoyment, but when I struggled on a new piece it's painful. I feel like having OCD when I'm playing piano because of my repetitive urges to play the piece.

For the music I will perform and record only the first section of the piece and loop it all over again. I'm sure the part is loopable. I will not use other pianists' recording because of copyright. I will perform and record the piece myself because the piece are in public domain and anyone can choose to perform them.

I won't play the whole piece, only the first section of the piece and loop it. The first sections that I'm planning to play, I choose Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G minor opus 23 no. 5 and Franz Liszt's first page of La Campanella. I can actually play the whole piece, but I won't because it's too long. Also Scott Joplin's first section of the Maple Leaf Rag

The reasons I choose these pieces because they sound dark, except Scott Jopin's Maple Leaf Rag that sounds joyful. I want to depict feeling dark and joyful at the same time from practicing an instrument.

This visual music is supposed to depict my experience or any other trained pianists' experience of doing repetitive hands movement looking at the sheet music over and over again to figure out the sheet music. It's suppose to feel struggle, hopelessness and sadness mixed with joy and fulfillment at the same time.

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Covid 19 theme. At first I chose red, yellow and blue as my colors scheme. Then drew and animate the skull, candle and windowside. I sent the work to Matt, and he told me to change colors because it doesn't fit the skull. I changed my chosen colors scheme to red, light blue, dark blue. Now I belong to a different color group, unlike before.

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Covid 19 theme. At first I chose red, yellow and blue as my colors scheme. Then drew and animate the skull, candle and windowside. I sent the work to Matt, and he told me to change colors because it doesn't fit the skull. I changed my chosen colors scheme to red, light blue, dark blue. Now I belong to a different color group, unlike before.

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I'm the soundtrack composer and I recorded foley with some use of stock sounds for Chess VFX movie. I matched the music tempo to 60 bpm or 120 bpm to sound like time is running out. Also the music style that Next wants is intense concentration battle Sci-fi music.

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Foley sound recordings to FL Studio and sound processing

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Foley sound recordings to FL Studio and sound processing

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I used my pc mic to record chess pieces dragging, moving and bumping other chess pieces on chess board.

I denoise the audio with waves plugins that is better than premiere pro denoiser

I EQ the sound frequency to adjust the low and high ends to match the tone that I want

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Foley sound recordings to FL Studio and some stock sound processing

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Foley sound recordings to FL Studio and some stock sound processing

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I added saturation to the audio

I added reverb to kori’s footsteps stock sound in chess vfx scene

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I paid for stock sound subscription: Soundly

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I paid for stock sound subscription: Soundly

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For the sounds that I can’t find.

I used footsteps sound, door opening sound, some chess pieces sound, some suit fabric sound for Sax’s and Kori’s clothing, and breathing sound.

I tried not to use same sounds for each 3d chess breaking scenes and other scenes as well, so the foley will not sound repetitive.

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I pitch shifted some audio to make it sound lower a few semitones for some badass hit sound.

I layered the sounds for over 5 hours for the first version and exported it to Next. He told me to change some 3D chess pieces breaking sounds, other sfx and adjust a bit of volume.

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Chess badass character introduction music composition

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Chess badass character introduction music composition

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I used synthesizer wavetable software synthmaster 2.9 and Xfer Serum for dark bass, pads and electronic sequence sounds

I composed a dark epic melody in minor scale for the character intro scene to make Sax and Kori look like a badass chess master player. I sent it to next and edit the duration of the music for him by following his instructions. I composed 140 bpm music for intro scene

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After Next cut the scenes the music was shortened

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I composed 2 versions of 60 bpm music for chess match scene to countdown time in seconds. I used dark electronic pluck sounds with bass boom rhythm in 60 bpm to convey concentrated dark, ambient and intense chess match and made a variation of the music for the near-ending chess match scene when Sax will lose to Kori

I took out a lot of unnecessary synth and drums instrument sounds in the first version of this music because the first version sounds too synthwave.

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I wrote a jazz drums pattern inspired from James Bond Theme and added guitar chords at the intro with flamenco guitar sound, then added the melody in the style of 4 bar loop in F minor key. The melody descended 3 notes and repeats 2 times then leaps up to a higher note. Then it repeats again but the second bar it leaps up even higher. The third bar is a repeat of the first and second bar but in a different part of the scale. The 4th bar it descended 3 notes 2 times, then 4 notes are descended as a closing bar. Then loop it throughout. However, Next only chose the first section of the end credit theme with only the opening chords but no later-on melody because he fades it.

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Next cut small intro section of the music that I uploaded to youtube instead of the whole song

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Master Chess VFX film (I only composed the music )

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My final skull candle 9square with others.

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My final skull candle 9square with others.

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I decided to make a skull near the window, in the style of "soul eater" anime, and with candles on top of it for the covid 19 theme. I think this shows that lots of family members of covid victims are in lockdown by the window of their home/ apartment. The skull indicates inevitably waiting for their loved ones to die from covid.

I drew the skull, candle and background in illustrator. I animate the candle flames with after effects stock plugins. The background I flip it into a window shape and slide it up and down in opposite direction from each other. I added spot light, brightness and contrast to the skull so it stands out from the background  I faded the background so the skull stands out.

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In the end, I used only 1 classical piece for my classical music video: Franz Liszt's La Campanella. 

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In the end, I used only 1 classical piece for my classical music video: Franz Liszt's La Campanella. 

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I recorded myself played the piece on my piano which the pedal doesn't work.

I processed the audio with EQ, reverb, compressor. My tutor Ivan reprocessed my audio for me to bring out the bass more.

I took photos of 56 pages of my sheet music and layered it together into stop motion, the first slow 13 notes of the piece, the frames changed each time the note hits. Then the crazy part came and the stop motion moved like crazy.

I added dripping blood vfx and burning vfx with stock plugins in after effects, then after the sheet music burning, the first audio section of the piece ends with a visual of the sheet music and the title of the piece.

I played this piece since 2015. This music video indicates me struggling on practicing this advanced piece, so I put blood dripping and paper burning to exaggerate my ideas.

This music video doesn't indicate joy, fulfillment and struggle  anymore, but only struggle of playing classical music