Final idea

I've decided that the project that I am going to create is the music video to a song about a strong cause. The strong cause that I chose was mental health, and the song I chose is 'Side effects' by StrayKids. I chose this song because it is about mental health, and it has lyrics and a sound that I think I could easily come up with visuals for.


I began by listening to the song, and reading the lyrics. The lyrics are in Korean, so I also had English subtitles.

[Intro: Seungmin, Bang Chan]
I threw myself with trust in me
But why am I being swayed?
I threw myself with trust in me
But why am I the only one being hurt?
 

[Verse 1: Felix, Hyunjin, Lee Know]
Get out of the way you all
Actually I am
I'm right
Scared
You all wait and see
Can I do it?
I'm scared that I might not keep these words
 

[Pre-Chorus: Han]
Why do I keep changing?
My inside and outside are both changing
I'm being colored now
 

[Chorus: All]
My head hurts
My head hurts
My head hurts
 

[Post-Chorus: Woojin, Seungmin]
I threw myself with trust in me
But why am I being swayed?
I threw myself with trust in me
But why am I the only one being hurt?
 

[Verse 2: Lee Know, Han, Hyunjin, Felix]
Wait a second, this is weird, my vision is blurry
Why doesn't it end? I keep hearing disturbing noises
Even here, I kept
Believing in winning over everything with my will to fight
Bravado can't last forever
Maybe it hurts more because I thought it'd be easy
I won't change, always, yah
I used to shout that, but why am I
According to my surroundings
Countlessly being changed
 

[Pre-Chorus: Changbin]
Depending on which person
Got on my nerves
Why does my reaction change?
I used to move to the groove only when I liked them
But now I'm following other people
Will my taste also change?
 

[Chorus: All]
My head hurts
My head hurts
My head hurts
 

[Bridge: Hyunjin, Changbin, Bang Chan]
I swallow pills
Called baseless confidence
Gulp, gulp
Maybe I took so many of them
Now I'm feeling more worried than confident
Brr, brr, brr, brr
Everything is being changed
From 1 to 10
More and more
The side effects kicking in
Against my will
No no no no
 

[Pre-Chorus: I.N, Han, Bang Chan, Felix]
Wait a second, this is weird, my vision is blurry
Why doesn't it end? I keep hearing disturbing noises
Even here, I kept
Believing in winning over everything with my will to fight
Bravado can't last forever
Maybe it hurts more because I thought it'd be easy
My head hurts
 

[Chorus/Outro: All]
My head hurts
My head hurts
My head hurts


After listening to the lyrics a couple times, I decided that I would only use the first minute, this is because I do not want to have to do the whole song, and I feel that I can create the best visuals for this part. This means that my video will end with the first chorus. 

My current idea for the video is this:

Starts with nice sunny scenery

Then when the beat drops at 0.16, you see someone running through said scenery. Black shadows chasing them. 

Then they get caught and dragged down by black shadows they’re reaching to get away (This is on the lyrics about believing in myself) 0.24

They’re falling into a dark shadow, at Felix’s lines. 0.32

They start to turn dark, and hollow looking. 0.39

The do the ‘My head hurts’ move from the dance. 0.44 and falls to the floor

The words from the chorus, the ‘side-effects’ come out of his head as there said, as well as lots of squiggles and lines, this is to indicate their distress. Until 0.52

At next ‘My head hurts’ cut the song to the end of that chorus. At 0.52. 

These are the side-effects spoke in the chorus part: Nervousness, insomnia, nausea, agitation, anxiety, sweating, vision problems, psychosis, numbing, headaches, weight loss

This means that I will be drawing a fleshed out character, a scenery, shadows, and words. I want to include the English translation on the video as well. I think this idea is ambitious, but I really want to try and learn as much animating and motion as I can, while I am at university. 

I am going to be using Character animator to animate the character running, and drawing all the assets in Photoshop. I want the drawings to be as sketchy as possible, as it will help represent anxiety and depression better. 




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