Idea & Inspiration

To continue my overall theme for this semester I chose to elaborate further on my band days. Amy was kind enough to set the stage for an interview and I supplemented this video with footage of me playing the drums as well as the guitar.

Design influences began with YouTube videos of some of my favorite musicians talking about their experiences throughout their career. I always found these videos to be uplifting and motivating. I wanted to create some sort of biography that I could look back on in the years to come. Also, if my music were to ever inspire any other artist, I want to give back to the music community that gave me so much, especially at a young age. The experiences that I had during those times shaped who I am today and I want to share those with anyone who has the same passion for music that I do.

One factor that held precedence was that I wanted to include my love of music in the video. By showing my passion through playing I felt that I could inspire others to feel love for music as much as I do.

Design Process/Technical Detail

The design was pretty simple with this video. I began by recording clips of myself playing the guitar as well as the drums. The actual audio of the video came in later as I attempted to match the visuals with stories from my band days.

For technical detail I kept it pretty simple. I used the dip to white video transition after the initial setting of Amy and I in the beginning. I then pieced together the video clips that were taken in an attempt to match what I was saying in the audio. My hope is to add some original music in the background. That will come in the final draft of this project.

The last piece was to add the ending credit with the title button as well as a dip to black after the last clip.

I would like to take this project even further by adding in photos of myself back in the day so that the audience can get a feel for what I did.

I used my iPhone 7 for the recordings as well as my Microsoft Surface.