Blues for Mama
Nina Simone
Story:
Extrapolating from Nina’s description of the song, the visualizer features a gut-bucket-blues vignette of an old man crafting a tune on his porch.
Motion:
As the video progresses, more and more scene elements begin romping to the music. With each pluck of the guitar strings, vibrant blue musical notes ripple through the air, intertwining with the floating dust particles and the buzzing flies. The notes take the form of tiny blue birds, symbolizing the man's emotions and memories. Wood falls off his house, bottles break, the trees sway, chimney smoke puffs to the beat. Throughout the video, molasses flows slowly, representing the passage of time and the thick, sticky nature of the blues. It seeps from the guitar strings and out of his front door, pooling around the man's feet as he plays, symbolizing the weight of his emotions and the blues that surround him.
Style:
3D Rendering with a soft-clay-like texture. The treatment will be very analogue, with film grain, desaturation, and chromatic abberation.
*samples featured on this page are all original. No AI was used to make these images.
Style option 2:
2D illustrated cartoon style. Motion would be cel-animated, with a stop-motion feel. Analogue grain and film FX overlaid.
*samples featured on this page are all original. No AI was used to make these images.