Studio Brief 2 - Task 4

Study task 4 
- Recreate a piece of music in Adobe Illustrator

I decided to base my work on the charts number one single in 1963 which was 'She loves you' by The Beatles. 

Figure 1

As the music video is about love, I decided to recreate the cassette tape reels into the shape of the infinity symbol which symbolises never ending love, as seen in figure 1. I chose to change this feature on the tape because it is one of the most recognised, so although it is a change, it will be noticed. 

Figure 2

The chorus of the song has a lot of repetition of the words 'she loves you', so this is represented by taking the 3 first individual letters of the words and overlapping them slightly to create a shape that is repeated into a line (acting as a stave), as seen in Figure 2. The colours represent the colours found on the album cover of the song. This recreation clearly illustrates the repetition of the words to the musician. 

Figure 3

The symbolisation of the rotating motion of the tape reels is represented in Figure 3, a necessary movement for the cassette tape to play music. The shape is made up out of the sheet music for the song, directing the musicians to use the notes visible to interpret how they want to play the song.

Figure 4

This is a section of the original sheet music, vectorised and then the gaps that have been created marks out roughly where the notes should be. It is a subjective way to represent the notes of the piece of music also insinuating the age of the song by making the bars look slightly damaged and old.

Figure 5

Figure 6

Music is often seen to be very personal and it is likely that each person has their own opinions on particular songs. I wanted to illustrate this personal attribute, but also show the accurate representation alongside. The grey in Figure 5 is an accurate sound wave of the song, 'She is Love'. The red overlay is my personal interpretation of the first 40 seconds of the song. I held my pen on a piece of paper and drew the up and down movements I felt to match the song and its changes in words and volumes etc. Figure 6 shows the original drawing before I converted it into vectors on Adobe Illustrator.