Music & Lyrics Part II
Okay, so I found something WAY cooler than the Ne-Yo video. In my Flash animation class, we’ve started a new project on motion typography, and a fellow graphics major introduced me to this video. It’s Jay-Z featuring Santogold (I LOVE her) and the song is called “Brooklyn (Go Hard).” The song, off the Notorious soundtrack, is ooookay…but the video is AWESOME!! The word ‘Brooklyn’ gets spelled out over and over again, each individual letter stacking itself on top of the last. The great part? It eventually starts to draw out Jay-Z’s face in type. I’m talking about reeeeally detailed stuff here. Halfway through the video, it gets erased and Biggie’s face gets its own illustration (complete with the crown, of course). You’ll get it when you see it:
Apparently, director Evan Roth has been turning down requests for Typographic Illustration for five years in hopes that Jay-Z would one day call–and he did! If you want the source code, you can find it here.