Dance Music and the Use of Shapes

Dance Music and the Use of Shapes

 

More than often imagery layered with different shapes above are used within dance music. Maybe is comes from the saying 'throwing shapes' when referring to dancing I'm not sure. I have incorporated this idea of using shapes over my imagery on my Digipak to keep in line with codes and conventions of the dance music genre which I have tapped into. Triangles are regularly used for example in the typography of Calvin Harris and many others:

 

 

 

This inspired the use of a triangle on the cover of my Digipak.

 

 

A video was released a few days ago by Zedd who has been particularly influential to me during this project as he creates dance music along side young female singers. This song is called 'I Want You To Know' and it features Selena Gomez. Throughout the music video different shapes have been edited in over the top of the footage and it gives a really interesting effect which is similar to some of the experiments I did with my Digipak.

 

 

 

 

 

I really like the way this video was edited including the use of shapes similar to a kaleidoscope. It's fast paced and fun which is just what you need for a dance music video.