William Tell Overature

So I can't really remember how your two initial photos used to look like, I think you took them down. So i'll just ask a few questions about your project since I didn't get to see it in class. Are you planning on making the 4 different compositions separately, and then simply merging them into 1 photo as a collage? Or are you going to do just 1 composition but effectively split it up into 4 distinct areas on the canvas to signify each section.

Sorry about that Rikky, I put my updated photos up. I'm making the photos separately and then merging them into a collage. I think that will help me convey the four different personalities of the piece better. I am a little afraid that my pieces will be so different though, I should add some sort of common connecting thread. Do you think that should be added so that it is obvious this is one storyline?

I really like each piece individually, although you are right in that it is hard to connect each piece to a common story-line. But after hearing the 4 parts of the overture, I think that it is really only the second half of the second piece (storm) and the 4th piece (the finale) which have elements in common. The other pieces are actually quite distinct from each other as well, each depicting a different emotion so it actually makes sense for your first 3 pieces to be quite distinct as well, as long as they are able to evoke the same emotions in the same order. But your 4th piece might want to have some common connecting thread to the 2nd piece, just because the songs themselves have the commonality.

I really like the photos you put up, but, as of now, I don't really see how they connect. I'm not in your module, so I can't give as much helpful feedback as I would like to, but I can't wait to see the final product.

I think you chose a much longer and more complex piece than most of us, so props for that. It's going to be challenging to condense it all to one visual composition, but you've got a great start. I would repeat the call for unity between the pieces, though I think I can see the fluid white line serving that purpose. It would also help if either the colors or the shapes stayed relatively consistent between the four--although the piece is varied, I don't think each section is so dramatically different as to warrant the complete transformation between panels. Maybe listen to some other music and try to think of how you would represent it differently in order to get an idea of what characterizes the whole piece? I particularly think the bright red in the last panel might be a bit too extreme, but used differently it might fit.

Wow.This is easily one of my favorite works on the gallery so far, great job! That white line that you have tried to keep common across all 4 compositions not only serves that effect, but the vertical position of the line also seems to be in accordance with the tone and beat of each of the 4 parts. Looking at the merged piece, I also like the way you merged the 4 pieces, while keeping the background white. I'm not sure if that was intentional, but it reminds me of the fact that score music is also placed on a white background, so I can see a definite analogy there.

Also, the colors that you have chosen for the background of each piece fit pretty well. You chose the perfect color for a misty calming effect you wanted in the first piece; in many games, that same color is used frequently for mist effects. The consequent color for storm as well could have been any number of dark colors. However, it was a good decision to go for a darker shade of blue, playing off the lighter shades you used for the first piece. It is also a similar color to how a tornado might look from a bird's eye view in a dark evening sky. Using pink for the 3rd piece was a nice touch, because dark blue and pink actually come out to a shade of purple I believe, which is the color of your 4th piece. So I can see a nice progression of color there as well as the appropriate emotions emerging from each piece.

Overall, there is a lot of depth to the final piece, yet the way you have manged to incorporate so many of the song's elements such as the melody, the violins and the brass into the compositions have made the final piece really representative of the song, so great work!

Haha, called it! I didn't predict actually connecting the white lines so that the pieces formed kind of steps upward, though, which is a cool effect and definitely conveys the progression through the piece. It actually kind of makes me think of the effort of the musicians in performing the entire piece without breaks--instead of a short pause in between, you just have to jump right up to the next stage.

I think if I had to do one thing differently, I would have used a golden tone for the brass, but maybe that's too literal/just my impression. And perhaps it wouldn't have fit the color scheme of the rest of the piece.

My favorite part of this is the "pink fluff" and "bubbles" in the third; the shapes and colors all match up quite well with the more gentle, playful feeling of that section. I also think the fluid texture of the line was a good choice over possibly something smoother because it evokes the vibration of a sound wave.

I'm sorry you feel the result wasn't effective, but I disagree! Just from what we saw in class and what you've kept here, it's clear you made a lot of progress even in the short time period, and the overall composition would definitely be something I could connect to the source material. Nice job!