Remix - Music is what stories sound like

As commonly known, music is what feelings sound like; and most of the time people associate music with emotions instead of detailed stories. As a music major, my idea in this project is "music is what stories sound like", I remixed the images of people's faces and figures on the piano keys. One same pitch can tell thousands of stories.



(I am really bad in Photoshop; please watch the videos to keep your interest going.)

In addition to the still image, I made two videos for this project. I chose only music videos and remixed them become movie trailers. Singers and videos that promote music are still there, but new stories are created. Ignore the words at the bottom since they are lyrics in the original music videos.

Remix #1 "The Love Circle" movie trailer from May Chook on Vimeo.

Addressing the idea of music telling thousands of stories, I created totally different genres for the movie trailers - one is erotic/romance film; while another one is an action thriller. Through the remix, the singers and original songs/music videos appear differently in movies. The balance blend between my idea and the final products is the challenging part; and I tried to achieve it.



"The Love Circle" trailer is pretty straightforward with the captions; but I think I should update this post with the details of "The Lawbreaker". There are only 2 leading characters (Jay and Jolin, the singers in the original music videos) and 1 supporting character (a female - Zhou Xun) who first appears on 0:54. Both Jay (a secret agent) and Jolin (an assassin) are hired by a legal agency (yes a legal agency can do unlawful things secretly - politics) to conduct missions, but they don't know each other. 

One day they are given a mission to hunt each other, which in fact the agency is using them for a self-benefit reason which can endanger the society as well. Jay and Jolin have OBLIGATION to fulfill their mission but later they figured out their boss' real intention. Zhou Xun who supposed to help Jay is actually stealing information from him. Therefore I use the word "TRUST" in the trailer right before the scene of Zhou Xun stealing information from Jay's computer. 

Then the caption "Betrayal is a virtue, when truth unfolds" appears in the trailer to explain that Jay and Jolin betray their agency when they know the truth. In order to save their own lives and stop their agency from doing "legally unlawful" things, they work together and rebel their agency (you can see the bag throwing act on 1:15). So there is the movie title "The Lawbreaker". I keep it in singular to address the distinction between the two characters, since they should be enemies in the story.

I understand that the images switch pretty fast therefore viewers cannot catch everything in first watching; that is fairly normal for action movie trailers. 

Sources for still image:
Piano keys

innocent-looking girl

hugging kids

kissing couple

poor kid

friends

holding hands

wounded man

smiling kid<

beaten kids

father and son

teacher

crying woman

couple hugging

old woman

Sources for video #1 "The Love Circle"

BIGBANG "Beautiful Hangover"
BIGBANG "My Heaven"
BIGBANG "Tell Me Goodbye"
Penny Tai "Lafite"
Yoga Lim "眼色" (Yan Se - Eye Signal)
Song used: Tokio Hotel "Rescue Me"


Sources for video #2 "The Lawbreaker"

Jolin Tsai "Agent J" music movie
Jay Chou's music videos:  
"以父之名" (Yi Fu Zhi Ming - In the name of Father) 
"四面楚歌" (Si Mian Chu Ge - Attacked from all Sides) 
"夜的第七章" (Ye De Di Qi Zhang - Twilight's Seventh Chapter)
"你听得到" (Ni Ting De Dao - You Can Hear It)
"她的睫毛" (Ta De Jie Mao - Her Eyelashes)
Theme music - edited version of "Midnight Run" from Korean drama "IRIS" original soundtrack.

(I have clear version of sources for video #2; Youtube links provided are only for reference.)