Visuals
The instrumental meant to go along with our project: “She” by Harry Styles
Project Statement
This project was a collaborative effort in creating a dynamic diptych relating to music, time, and movement. Our concept revolves around the song “She” by Harry Styles. We chose an instrumental part of the song and broke it down into two separate sections: the background rhythms and the striking guitar solo. We each conquered one of these parts. Every aspect of the song feels cool, calm, and mysterious and then this bold intrigue, the guitar, bursts through as the background noise begins to mesh and fade behind it. To convey this concept, we positioned the two frames parallel to each other. The one representing background noise is covered in splashes of color and organic shapes and has an iris mechanism that opens to reveal the punch of the guitar. We used brown cardstock and newspaper as shared elements for both frames to represent the cohesion between parts of the music as well as the actual design. The frame sitting behind the first has untamed lines that I sketched in my notebook while listening to the distortions of the music. I converted this to an Illustrator file and laser cut it out of cardstock. Red and purple were chosen for my piece because they’re both powerful and hard to ignore. The center pushes out through the opening to show how this part of the music pierces through. It expands and turns mesmerizing you similarly to how the guitar takes over you and makes you really feel it when listening along.
Process
View detailed project process at Dynamic Pages: Process
Reflection
Overall I think the concept my partner and I came up with was really interesting. I think we both thoroughly understood where we were trying to go with it however it may not have come across quite as effectively as I would have hoped. The front piece needed to be slightly more cohesive to represent how we hear all the background noise blend into one, instead of all individual colors and shapes it could’ve been a more of an organic flow. I also wish we would’ve iterated more to scale models because seeing the diptych hung up for the presentation, I noticed the most of back frame of the diptych is hidden even when the iris opens to reveal what’s behind it. That being said, when the two are together they look great, and when interacted with alongside the music, I think we captured the lurring element that this guitar solo provides.