Another long and epic day making music videos. These take a lot of work, but I have a feeling that nobody in the world can make 14 videos like these in two days. I'm loaded with creative energy. If I had time to make full videos for these songs, with camera work etc. then I'd do things differently, I'd add more. All art is about limitations, and trying ones best within them.
Today involved work on the more complex songs. Excessive Consumption was a surprise in how good it looks, considering its not much more than an electric cube which pulses to the beat. Several videos track an instrument, and there are minimal intellectual links to the songs; that is images that match the lyrical content. That would be ideal, but these videos are primarily there to provide something better than nothing, a simple animation related to the album artwork.
'Mister Moan' features some Victorian looking doors, and a graveyard for the second chorus. The epic 'Incomplete Version Of The Writer' doesn't have much, but features an image of Agatha Christie, some typewriters, and excerpts from the lyrics, all to far better effect than no video. 'Cat Parasites' is little more than fog and other elements from the album art, but some instruments are echoed in dancing lights; and 'An Autumn Tale' has falling leaves and some distant trees.
In Argus, I've used modulator attachment a lot this time, more than before where I'd typically create a new actor. This seems to work better (it reduces the quantity of actors for certain), although there's not much difference. The point of Argus is that it can do the same thing in many different ways.
Many of these videos are very simple, such as 'Go To Bed And Miss Me', which is a delightful flight through a summer sky; but even the really simple ones have a surprisingly nice feeling. The 'Anyone Can Fall In Love' video is little more than a pulsing, glowing heart which falls away, but it seems to match the song well. I haven't done anything for 'What Has Happened To My Dreams' yet. I have a clear idea for a more in-depth video for it, but may just use Argus.
For two days work, a lot has been done. I expect it will all take at least one more day.
