WEEK ONE

Transcription: to translate one type of information to another format.
For example, converting the principles and narrative of a film into a game, or to take a piece of music and convert it into and animation.

You’re not changing the story just the context from which you view it.
Some examples of this are:

The Godfather, originally a film ----> also made into a Playstation game






Silent Hill, originally a Playstation game ----> also made into a Film








Twilight, originally a book ----> also made into a Film





Personally I really liked the idea of taking a piece of music and turning it into an animation. I felt that this way I could really get a sense of what it was I was trying to create, enabling me to understand the feelings and emotions that were important. After I decided this I went on to make a decision about what sort of genre of music I was going to choose. Eventually I came to a decision that it had to be something that very few, if anyone had heard before yet likeable.

I didn’t want to choose something that everyone would know as this would take away from the animation, plus the fact if I used something to extreme such as a heavy rock or classical then this would only appeal to a small percentage of the audience, so I brainstormed particular popular genres at the moment.




They were:

1) Indie

2) Electro

3) Alternative

4) Rock


After searching through a few bands I realised that I didn’t know a lot about all of the different genres that had been mentioned and I needed to get the opinions of friends that did know. After a general enquiry amongst them the genre that popped up the most was ‘Electro’. I asked them to give me a list of their favourite bands of that genre, suggesting that they may like to consider bands that were quite new.

The list I managed to compile was:

1) Foals



2) Bat for lashes



3) Bolt action five



4) Hot chip



5) Robots in disguise

I sourced these bands and listened to a variety of songs that they had produced narrowing down which bands I felt were more appropriate. Eventually I narrowed it down to one band ‘Hot Chip’ and one song in particular, ‘The Warning.’ It has quite a variety of sounds in it and it made my imagination generate a lot of ideas.

I then found the lyrics for it reading it as more of a poem than a song thinking about the main ‘message’ or ‘point’ that it was trying to convey.

The lyrics are as follows:

Excuse me sir, I’m lost I’m looking for a place where I can get lost
I’m looking for a home for my malfunctioning being
I’m looking for the mechanical museum

This is a warning ill spell it out for you, for you
This is a warning ill spell it out for you

Excuse me sir I’m a dog on heat
I’m a complicated being with love songs to beat
I’m a problem solving baby who could march all night
I’m a mechanical music man and I’m starting a fire

Hot chip will break your legs, snap off your head
Hot chip will put you down, under the ground

Excuse me child, I am trying to see all the colours and wonder your brightness can be
Return to the nothingness and joy just might be right
But prepare yourself for a mechanical fright

This is a warning ill spell it out for you, for you
This is a warning ill spell it out for you, for you

Hot chip will break your legs, snap off your head
Hot chip will put you down, under the ground
Hot chip will break your legs, snap off your head
Hot chip will put you down, under the ground

Excuse me son, I’m found I’m looking for a place where I was once found
There’s nothing in a world where the melody is broken
There’s always some way to make the silence be spoken

Hot chip will break your legs, snap off your head
Hot chip will put you down, under the ground
Hot chip will break your legs, snap off your head
Hot chip will put you down, under the ground

(It almost seems to be a riddle, and you’re having to guess what or who the singer is talking about.)