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As promised, this round continues with the theme of music, but this time we're drilling down to the level of individual songs. For this round each icon should be inspired by a specific song. This can mean for example:
- using lyrics as text
- choosing a subject that the song reminds you of
- using symbolism to capture the story of the lyrics
- trying to mimic the general mood of the song
- just using the title of the song as a word prompt
- visual inspiration from the official music video, if one exists
- ...or any other inspiration you get from the song, let your imagination go wild!
You can use any fandoms and images, so despite focusing more on individual songs, this round is NOT about making icons from music videos or performances (it is certainly allowed, though), but moreso about interpreting a song in an icon with technique and subject choices. This is another interpretative round, so there are no right or wrong ways to do this - if you're lost, just listen to your music of choice and let it speak to you.
NORMAL MODE: You are free to select any songs as your inspiration, and create one or more icons inspired by each.
HARD MODE: Select an album and make only one icon for each song. You may exclude intros, outros, interludes, skits, instrumentals, additional remixes of the same song, and other obscure track types if you want to. If you want to make more icons for this round than there are tracks on the album, you may start filling a second album of your choice, but only after the first one is filled entirely (not counting the excluded track types). You don't need to fill an entire album, and if you choose to make fewer icons than there are tracks on the album, you may freely select which tracks you icon (they don't need to be filled in order).
EXTRA HARD MODE: Use randomized songs as your inspiration (one icon per song). Put your music library* on shuffle and take the first songs that come up. If you want to restrict this somehow (for example, leave out instrumentals or non-English songs) you can set up a few rules for yourself, but these must be consistently followed and clearly worded in your post. I recommend choosing these rules before you start randomizing. You can either do the randomizing at once (randomize as many songs as the size of the set you're going for), or separately one song at a time whenever you want to make a new icon, but in either case these song prompts must be filled in order (so even if you have them all randomized, start at the first song that came up to make sure the final set will have icons for the first 5-20 songs that came up). I'm trusting you not to cheat with the randomizing here - remember that if you try this and get songs you're not happy with, you can always switch to another mode.
* A music library in this case means any relatively large collection of music from various artists. Usually this is the database of a software, for example Windows Media Player, but if you don't have one, you may also use any sufficiently long playlist in a streaming service that supports randomizing, e.g. Spotify. Let me know if you need ideas or assistance for randomizing songs.
ULTRA HARD MODE: A special for this round, a chance to do something VERY difficult: a song set. Choose just one song and use consecutive parts of the lyrics in all your icons. The goal is to spell out some of the lyrics, so the icons also should be posted in the correct order. The set does not need to have the full lyrics of the song spelled out since that would be almost impossible, so choose any series of consecutive lyrics from any part of the song. If there is a chorus or other repetitive parts, no need to icon the same lyrics twice (but you can do so if you want to). The examples given in the inspiration icons should illustrate this mode better.
Please write in your post clearly which mode you're doing and which song each icon is inspired by (artist and title of the song are enough, no need to link to the song unless you want to!).
Since the source of inspiration for this post should be the music itself, there's no big inspiration post this time, but feel free to visit the inspiration post from last round which may still be relevant! However, to give some idea for how songs can be used in an icon, below are some inspiring icons that have all been made for some type of song challenge before. Hover to find out the makers and inspiration songs.
ULTRA HARD MODE EXAMPLES
Florence and the Machine - Big God by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small} tinnny |
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| Des'ree - You Gotta Be by timetobegin |
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Rules
+ Create 5-20 icons for the challenge.
+ Icons must fit LJ standards (100x100px, gif/jpg/png format, 100kb or less)
+ All icons must be new and made specifically for the challenge
+ Post either a link to your icon journal post, or post the icons directly to this community (in a new post)
+ Each entry should have three example icons before the link or the cut
+ If linking to your icon journal, the post must be public at least until the end of the challenge.
+ Use title Round 16: yourname
+ Use tags maker: yourname, round: 16
+ Please make an effort to look at and to leave comments to other participants' posts
+ Deadline: April 30th 22:00 UTC+3 (COUNTDOWN)
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QUESTIONS?
Date: 2022-03-01 16:30 (UTC)Re: QUESTIONS?
Date: 2022-03-01 16:45 (UTC)Anyway, my question: for Hard Mode, would it be allowed to use a fanmix (or another type of youtube playlist) instead of an album? I don't think I could do a whole set from just one artist.
RE: Re: QUESTIONS?
Date: 2022-03-01 16:58 (UTC)As for the hard mode question, if it's a collection album that's actually been released by a record label (you know like those random collections such as the "Now That's What I Call Music" series), I'd count that as hard mode. If it's a fanmade playlist like a fanmix, I don't think that would fulfill hard mode, but it's definitely a great possibility for normal mode. Hope this helps!
Re: QUESTIONS?
Date: 2022-03-01 17:05 (UTC)Haha I knew you like song sets which is partly why I even included it
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Considering I've already decided on a song and started planning out the set... um. :D I really hope I can get it done.
RE: Re: QUESTIONS?
Date: 2022-03-01 19:25 (UTC)RE: QUESTIONS?
Date: 2022-03-01 18:25 (UTC)RE: QUESTIONS?
Date: 2022-03-01 18:28 (UTC)RE: QUESTIONS?
Date: 2022-03-01 21:40 (UTC)For ultra hard mode, do the lyrics have to be in every icon in the set, or can we make some icons that fit parts of the lyrics (and explain) so that some icons have text and some don't?
RE: QUESTIONS?
Date: 2022-03-02 15:32 (UTC)Yes, there needs to be lyrics in every icon for Ultra hard mode, that's why it's so much more difficult than the other modes. However, doing it the way you describe is a perfectly valid entry for the challenge and would count as Normal mode.
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Date: 2022-03-01 22:24 (UTC)What about musicals? Would it be okay to make one icon per song from a musical?
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Date: 2022-03-02 15:33 (UTC)Re: QUESTIONS?
Date: 2022-04-09 22:38 (UTC)While any songs probably implies many songs, you didn't strictly speaking say they couldn't all be for the same song. That all right? Or I'll pick another song and do more (no more than 20). I did come up with a song after I'd formatted my post. And another while typing this. Now I'm tempted to continue, of course, which is the exact opposite of what I intended. XD
General yay:
Nice that the comm moved to DW! Your challenges are interesting and creative, and the challenge posts are beautifully made. I appreciate the set-up and non-competitiveness (well, I suppose the icons within a set are sort of competing), especially because I don't really like ranking other people('s work). But choosing a favourite icon (or two, or four) seems more like, well, that's how you might comment on someone's post: you pick your favourite icons!
Re: QUESTIONS?
Date: 2022-04-10 16:03 (UTC)YAY thanks so much for the support!! ♥ Glad you like the non-competitive aspect, it's super important to me personally cause I much prefer everyone just getting to appreciate everyone else's work without having to be compared to them.
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Date: 2022-03-01 19:28 (UTC)(...and here I was wondering if you'd feel the inspiration to enter at all since your previous set literally already fits this challenge thanks to your self-added extra stipulations :D)
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Date: 2022-03-02 08:34 (UTC)(ikr? i was thinking that maybe i was accidently doing next months challenge there lol. but don't worry, this time i have even more IDEAS)
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