Emergence

Animated and Produced by John Beck
Music by John Beck

This is the first time that i've done an animated video. I taught myself how to do stop motion animation. This film combines traditional stop motion techniques as well as digital motion graphics. The video incorporates a number of different mediums including found objects, collage, video and computer drawn images. Not only is this the first time that i've done animation it's also the first time that i've composed and performed my own soundtrack. 

UPDATE: How important is music in film? I usually have my colleague Joseph Martin do the soundtracks for me but I thought i'd do my own for this one. However, Joseph did do his own version of the soundtrack. His soundtrack completely changes the mood and feel of the film. Not in a bad way. It just shows how important the role of music is in film. Here's the same video with Joseph's soundtrack.

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