The Race

The story we were trying to evoke with “The Water is Wide” is a story about a boy walking up to a track about to run a race, then running the race, at one point falling down and feeling defeated, but then finding some sort of motivation and getting back up again and crossing that finish line. We thought the music went along perfectly with the ups and down of the story we thought of in our heads and as for me this is the emotion that was created within me. In the middle of the song the music sort of slows down, and this is the part where we pictured the boy falling and his world stopping. When the music picks back up again I pictured a face looking up and looking strong, then getting back up again to finish what he had started.
The images that I am most proud of are the hills where the sun seems to be moving across them and the green abstract picture that starts getting brighter and yellow. To me, this showed a new beginning and a new way of thinking. It gave a positive feeling to our story. The time sequence of these pictures is
Our choice of images helped suggest the story by showing sunlight and earthy abstract pictures. I would say that it would be hard to guess what our story is really about but once one would know I would think it would make sense. We used darker images for the low emotion sections, and soon when the music picked back up again the images seem to get brighter and lighter in color, suggesting a relieving mood and feeling.
I would say that about 85% of the images we used are abstract and the ones that are not abstract are animated. We had an idea of using earthy tones and colors and as for shapes we tried to not use many sharp looking images.
What I learned about picking out and identifying abstract images is that an abstract image is an image that isn’t specifically a thing. It is shapes and colors put together and many different people can have a different point of view or idea on what the picture is suggesting. I remember the picture of the beach. Some people looked at it as the sky, and they felt a sense of freedom. Others saw a beach and got a sense of summer, and the ocean. Abstract images are meant to do that, they set a mood for people to give it their own meaning, even though the artist might’ve already given it their own.
What I learned about the interaction between music and images is that the mood of the music works together with the mood set by the image and the colors and shapes.
The most important contribution my partner made was giving suggestions on where to put the images to go along with the music. She listened carefully and we both worked on trying to match up the moods and feelings as best we could. She also had to work alone the day I was gone because I was taking a placement test and I give her credit because I’d hate to work by myself.
The most important contribution I made was doing all the editing and all the animation. I did most of the computer work and put the whole thing together and did the research on the images.