Project 1 documentation
Title
the illusion of separation
Project Description
I want to create something about people’s inner world, what people will see when they close their eyes. that flashing pattern and light. also, I want stronger visual effects, so I want to create a kind of illusion that is very separate and changing very fast. I also use both visuals and sound to create a feeling that everything is losing control.
Perspective and Context
In my project, first, when I tried different effects, I found that there’s an effect that can create a lot of changing patterns that can give me a feeling of space, and I feel like that space is just like something that happened in my dream. so I decided to create something related to illusion. and I feel like the illusion is something blurry and dreamy, so I created a color and line-changing background and also made changing patterns more blurry. I created a lot of different patterns, and they are always changing, from cube, changing-shape dots to Spatial variations of diamond shapes. and I want to make a sound intense and psychedelic to fit my visual. so I connect my changing background to the sounds. I also let my sounds change fast to fit with the intense dream, but I think my music didn’t really change with the changing pattern because I still didn’t know Max that well.
Development & Technical Implementation
My research include watching those abstract video in class, I feel like a lot of projects has very strong visual effects, and their music are always very abstract and synthesize with the visual very well. and when I started to make the project, I actually lacked a lot of knowledge of max. so I start with watching the example patches. I followed the basic structure of the example patches, and then for those effects and generating modules, I changed several to make the effects I wanted.
I created two videos and mixed them together, for one of the videos, I used the lumakeyr, because I found that one can create a lot of crazy shapes that I want. and for the other shape, I used the mappr to change the color of my project. I didn’t really know how to make the sound part, so I just followed the example, changed some parts randomly to see the effects, and connected them to the visual part, and the effect finally sounded fine to me. (I really recommend having a learning assistant for our class, I still really don’t know how everything works even after I finished the work)
Presentation
I think the presentation could have been better, I think I should more about my idea and working part, also, I think I should talked about what difficulties I encountered when doing this, thus I could have had more help from both my professor and my classmates.
My link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1S9Z9g5VKedGFc36HcjaG9Kfmg84mtJjX
My video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/17oYWohjMI5pTQdhnvethSZbIy8h-gwr1/view?usp=sharing
Conclusion
what I learned is how to make connections between my visuals and sounds, and I also learned how to use a lot of effects and generating modules in max. I think what I failed to do is to connect sounds with two videos, I just know how to connect one, so my sounds actually didn’t make a strong connection with my video. I think what I did well is the visual it’s very strong, but next time I wish I could have better control over the video. in the future I will better consider the relationship between sounds and visuals before I start to work, what kind of relationship I want to have between sounds and visuals, how to make it become a whole instead of two parts playing together, and how to let them mutually reinforcing.