Howdy, all. Here is my final for Advanced Motion Graphics. It’s a 30-second music visualization video for a song of our choosing. I chose to do M83’s “Moonchild”, as it’s one of my favorite songs ever. I get such a strong emotion and imagery whenever I listen to that song, so I wanted to convey that same emotion and sense of awe in the video. First off, it was such a pain to cut this song into 30 seconds. I really wanted the slow intro in there to set the scene (I tried it without, and it didn’t work well) which meant that the end gets kind of cut off. That was the opinion of some of my peers, but I guess the end doesn’t really bother me since the song just continues on in my head. I really wanted an ethereal and ambiguous feel in this piece and I was heavily influenced by “2001: A Space Odyssey”; and I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the band was, too. Some people had trouble with the upside down launch shot and I couldn’t really explain my reasoning behind it that well, but I just wanted to change up the perspective. My friend, Yaric, articulated it pretty well, in that gravity is all relative. Overall, I’m pretty satisfied with it; if anything, I would have liked to have made it longer.