I created this animation to the beat and lyrics of a song called "Good Night" by the Beatles. I chose this song based on the lullaby genre I was given by my teacher for this project. I wanted to use a song that was a more modern version of a lullaby and not something you would typically think of when you think of that particular genre of music.

Lullabies are songs that mothers generally tend to sing to their children to either help calm them down or help put them to sleep. The idea is that if someone familiar to the child sings the song in a soothing voice, they will relax and fall to sleep. Their rhythms are typically slow and have a lot of repeated note sequences. They are mostly done in flat keys and without any high-pitched notes or surprise jumps in the song so as to not startle the child. Lullabies have been around for a long time and are not really attributed to any particular culture seeing as mothers have traditionally sung to their children throughout the world for generations.

My research influenced parts of my animation such as the use of color and instruments. Since lullabies often times are created with a lot of string instruments, I used a violin and a harp as part of my imagery. I also gathered that the use of voice and lyrics is pretty important so I emphasized certain parts of the lyrics in my project. I also used an illustrative type approach thinking that these are geared towards children. I also chose to use golds, blues, and purples because I feel like they are soothing colors and blue as obviously correlated with the evening and night parts of day.

Here is the link to my animation: click here