Thesis

In 2001, a duo of Norwegian DJs under the name "Nightcore" began to play sped-up trance and Eurodance tracks. Since the late 2000s and early 2010s, nightcore exploded in popularity across Youtube due to its ease of creation. In 2019, 100 gecs released their debut album, "1000 gecs", crystallizing the essence of the previously established "hyperpop" genre to an energetic, synthy, genre-bending extreme, influenced heavily by the nightcore boom. Great, Beating Node is influenced by the "weird" aesthetics of 100 gecs and the musical style of 2010s nightcore, hyperpop, eurobeat, and chieptune, creating an intentionally overproduced, highly melodic mess (positive). The music video, in a similar vein, is intentionally over-edited, chaotic, and genre-bending, incorporating multiple forms of media in each scene with a heavy emphasis on video editing to evoke a homemade, charmingly aprofessional feel.

Auditory Precedents

100 gecs

Toby Fox

Brainstorming

Brainstorming

Visual Precedents

Cows & Cows & Cows - Cyriak

I Would Rather - Jazz Emu

Pumpkin Cowboy - Brian David Gilbert

Hand Crushed By A Mallet - 100 Gecs

(and many more)

Sketches

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Thesis

In 2001, a duo of Norwegian DJs under the name "Nightcore" began to play sped-up trance and Eurodance tracks. Since the late 2000s and early 2010s, nightcore exploded in popularity across Youtube due to its ease of creation. In 2019, 100 gecs released their debut album, "1000 gecs", crystallizing the essence of the previously established "hyperpop" genre to an energetic, synthy, genre-bending extreme, influenced heavily by the nightcore boom. Great, Beating Node is influenced by the "weird" aesthetics of 100 gecs and the musical style of 2010s nightcore, hyperpop, eurobeat, and chieptune, creating an intentionally overproduced, highly melodic mess (positive). The music video, in a similar vein, is intentionally over-edited, chaotic, and genre-bending, incorporating multiple forms of media in each scene with a heavy emphasis on video editing to evoke a homemade, charmingly aprofessional feel.

Auditory Precedents

100 gecs

Toby Fox

Brainstorming

Brainstorming

Visual Precedents

Cows & Cows & Cows - Cyriak

I Would Rather - Jazz Emu

Pumpkin Cowboy - Brian David Gilbert

Hand Crushed By A Mallet - 100 Gecs

(and many more)

Sketches

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

Storyboarding

1) How can we structure our video to support the mixed media collage aesthetic?

2) How can we use these visuals in a refreshing and new or unique way?

3) How to balance mixed media and different forms of video content?

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