Initial Ideas

For my project I was thinking about perhaps doing something that uses no real time footage atall, instead using Visual Art style and doing a light show that will keep in time with the music and the beat of the music.

Perhaps something like the Visualizer from iTunes, which uses the beat of the music to generate a sequence of ribbons and lights that are indeed mesmerizing. Below you can see an image that I have pulled from iTunes whilst playing a song and having the visualizer turned on.



Here you can see that the visualization from iTunes is very intricate, showing many different styles and effects all linking in together and acting upon the beat of the music.

There are many different visual effects that have been used for windows media player in the past here are two that are quite well known:

this one is one of the original visualizers, used in windows 2000 media player.


here is a lightly more up-to-date version of the famous 'equaliser' bars effect, used in windows media player 6 (approx 2005)

Here are another few visual styles that can be recognised as Windows Media player visualizations.

The Sound wave:



Alternating Blocks:



Waterfall:


Of all of the above, I might try to use a mixture of all of them, and maybe some others, maybe even invent my own styles, I think that the best one and the one that will be easily recognisable as it flowing with the music would be the sound wave one, which I think I might be able to create in After effects with some work.