So...

After skimming through a few art books, and not finding anything too interesting, iv decided to make my own 'paintings'. These will be photographs with a few Photoshop filters on them. Now I know that most graphic designers can pick up a PS filter a mile away, so ill be editing the pictures with the paint brush tool to ad in some extra details. Using pictures will make is soooooooooo much easier, I also think it will look much better mainly because I can have different angles on the shots.
Well, I'm excited.



Heres an example of the Photoshoped picture. (click on the image to make it bigger, it looks much better enlarged)

Tempting...

A very tempting idea is to not use pre-made paintings, just use my own creations.. It will be a whole lot easier.. and I don't think it will make the video worse, it might actually make it look better. Further testing is needed.

Video!

Here is the storyboard chopped up, and stuck in a video. This gives you a better idea for timing and how it will go with the song.
Enjoy!

Visual Visualization

So here is the Storyboard! Woo! These pictures represent every shot in the video clip. Theres a time on the top left of each image, this shows at what time in the song it starts, and if you have a look at the next one; what time it finishes. There a bunch of arrows in some, I'm hoping they're quite self explanatory. Some refer to the movement of the actors and some are for the camera movements. Overall I'm pretty happy with it, ill be turning it into a video storyboard very soon... and I will post the video up on this blog.
(You can click on the images to make them bigger, and please forgive my terrible handwriting and spelling. I don't expect you to understand the comments.)

Its Story time. (Overview)

So heres a really really rough Storyboard. It doesn't have individual shots, it just focuses on each scene. I don't expect anyone to understand it, as it is really rough.
You can see on the bottom of the first page theres a Time line, a bunch of letters and a graph. The Time line shows key points in the song, the letters refer to the aspect of the song, G for guitar, E for extreme guitar.. :P and L for lyrics. The graph is a representation of the energy that the song is putting out.

An oldy but a goody

So here are some painting that I might just use. They're all by the same dead artist: Ivan Shishkin.
Yes I realize they're all the same style, I'm thinking I might keep it simple and only have slight differences in style, I don't want it to be to confusing to people, they might wonder what the hells going on when an abstract painting comes along.
Each of these pictures I have are obviously past their copyright restriction so I can use them without going to jail.
Also each picture I have on my PC is extremely high resolution so they will be perfect to use.
Remember these are not the final paintings, I know I definitely need one with a big crowd of people in it, so I will continue searching.
Enjoy.