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Colourful Sounds Animations
This series of animations could count as my magnum opus of my senior year of high school. Created for a senior design project for our high school, the purpose of this project was to explore a possible correlation between auditory and visual therapy and improvement of mood/calmness for people with special needs. The abstract for the project is posted as below:
Colour. Sound. Both mediums have been utilised various times to great success as mediums to alleviate the stressed and provide solace from the traumas and changes of life for people with special needs. However, in this world of colourful and whimsical therapy, not much is known about the intersection of these two artistic mediums. Based on the theories that colour and sound increase connections between different areas of the brain, my senior project aims to explore the potential permutations and combinations of visual arts and music therapy through an animation video with synched visuals and music. Because different colours and sounds often invoke a different response from us, I plan on making multiple moods of animations, each with different colour tones and auditory accompaniment, which is based on the experimentally tested observation that different colours and sounds stimulate different emotions or moods within one’s mind. As this video is ultimately a therapy video, it would be ideal to find a specific combination that provides the most positive externality to the person viewing it. After I finish my video and receive sufficient feedback from my target audience, I hope that the process and experience I garner from creating this video and whatever results that may perchance be shown through my audience’s preferences will usher for more investigation and experimentation with animation as a medium of therapy and expression for people with special needs.
To follow through the process of researching for and creating the animation, I also kept a blog documenting that, which is linked below as well:
Below are the slides and the animations respectively. Enjoy!
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