BOYS NOIZE - STARTER (Hi-Def)

My entry for the Boys Noize EMPOWER yourself visuals competition, enjoy!

http://www.nealcoghlan.co.uk

See stills here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nealcoghlan/sets/72157622472534593/

For the look and style of the video I wanted to keep it quite similar in appearance to the aesthetic of much of the artwork produced for releases through Boys Noize Records - basically the bold shapes, strong primary colours and often aggressive lines. The artwork for the Starter EP was a great starting point as this was so easy to translate into a moving visual - and from there create other visuals that followed suit. A lot of the reference material I used included bits of machinery including photos from museums and schematics for various electrical devices. I've always been a fan of simple moving geomterical works as well, and from this piece I think that love of basic shapes (especially circles) has come across pretty well.

All the stills were created in illustrator and then placed in After Effects and animated. Some of the shots were painstakingly separated into individual pieces and manually keyframed, most of them to fit elements of sound in the track i.e. a drum beat or a stabbing synth.

When I set the brief originally within my department, I had a strict set of guidelines such as only 2 colours (in the animation 1 section uses black as this was a guideline set by the artist for the competition), no transparency, no motion blur, no 3D. All of it was to be bold 2D graphics.

Big thanks to: Steve, Luiza, Harry, David and Tiago for helping with the project!

Portfolio:
http://www.behance.net/nealcoghlan

**Not for epilepsy Sufferers**

See the Harding Test results here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nealcoghlan/4016374841/in/set-72157622472534593/

Category:

Film & Animation

Tags:

• Boys Noize
• Competition Empower Yourself
• Filth
• Electro
• Techno
• Synth
• Vector
• Visuals
• Music
• Red
• White
• Epileptic
• Flashing
• House
• Graunch
• Machine
• Sci-Fi
• Mechanical
• Technology
• Futuristic
• Diagram
• Starter
• Power

[BuggelyToons]

Thankyou thankyou thankyou for all the positive comments! =) Glad to see people are enjoying the vid!

[kyle321123321123321]

Holy SHIT! This is a FUN video!

Koodos.

Seriously.

[TheLazyGenius]

Awesome.

You and your friends did a solid job on this.

Nice to see it in 720p also.

[HmirandaC]

WARNING.

If you have seizures, do not see this video.

(holy shit)

[renaudbassplayer]

wow man, you really did that ? thats awesome ! it seriously looks like an official video ! congrats =)

[strictlyriddim]

this is DOPE!

[amiwhatyouthink]

this awesome video almost makes you forget about the music..

[mrpockets730]

Awesome video! That's art, and not that Andy Warhol type of bullshit.

[ozzymek]

rly cool video bro

[chewyRite2]

This has got to be one of the most amazingly creative videos I've seen in a long time.

It also has to be the antichrist for people with epilepsy :)

[TheChrisYo]

I sure hope you won.

Cheers!

[technojaa]

WOW awesome video :D