Vexercise 1 Drops! (2021 Edition)

[lola]

Hi all!!! Here we go, the first vexercise of the 2021 edition! We're so excited to play in this sandbox again, and hope you are all as well!

For this first vexercise, we decided to keep it simple and stay with the original version of the vexercise. We've found that this vidding pechakucha variation has been a terrific exercises for people new to vidding to learn the ropes of editing, and for old timers to try out new media sources, new ideas, or to embrace the limitations and to see what you can do within them. So many amazing and inspiring videos came out of these vexercises last year. You can see them on this YouTube playlist that bonibaru  put together, plus others that were not posted to YouTube at the Vexercise collection on A03. 

Here are the instructions/guidelines for this first vexercise: 


1) Pechakucha 2 ways

Create a video edit of exactly 60 seconds consisting of precisely 10 video clips from your chosen source text, each lasting precisely 6 seconds, assembled with straight cuts. Make two versions of your pechakucha, with 1 minute excerpts from two different songs as audio. Fade in and out on your audio at the beginning and end of the audio clip.

[Word to the wise: Most six second clips that you use are bound to have in-clip cuts--you don't have to go looking only for clips that have no internal cuts. But you can make those internal cuts work for you rhythmically or thematically etc!]

[This exercise is inspired directly by the first of the videographic criticism exercises, but modified here to be vid/fanedit focused with the inclusion of music from an outside source. You can see some examples of the original videographic pechakucha’s here and a more vidlike one Lola made here. !!And now you can see way more wonderful vidding pikachus on this YouTube Playlist (as well as examples of the other O.G. vexercises at the vexercises collection on a03! 

If you have any questions about this vexercise, either before you start or as you get going, feel free to post them here!

Stay tuned for a post about technology, resources, etc., and a check in next saturday. This vexercise will be "due" in two weeks, so March 27

Comments

[airawyn]

Haha, thank you! I actually started with Don't Stop Me Now and when I was scrolling through my music library for a second song, Defying Gravity jumped out at me. Like, what else could it be?

[airawyn]

Thank you!

[airawyn]

Thank you!

[airawyn]

These are all great, but I especially love Alone. It's a great LWJ song.

[airawyn]

OMG, Banana Phone was hilarious (and still creepy!)

[airawyn]

The POV switch is brilliant! Excellent work.

[allheadybooks]

Wow, love how you got the fight choreography to hit the music beats in 'Stayin' Alive'--so satisfying to watch!

[trickytricky]

I thought this would be interesting, but I underestimated HOW MUCH fun I would have doing this.... it ended up being incredibly fascinating to try to line up the points where the different types of music and lyrics could find points of intersection between the different versions while keeping within the limits of the exercise... anyway, here's four songs because I had fun playing with tons of variants using Guardian as the source! XD

Vid Exercises 1 --- Iris || Toxic || Raining || Mr. Jones

Music:
Song 1 - Iris (cover) by Phoebe Bridgers and Maggie Rogers
Song 2 - Toxic by Britney Spears
Song 3 - Raining by of Verona
Song 4 - Mr. Jones by Counting Crows

[trickytricky]

OK, and, um.... I had so much fun playing around with the same clips/different music challenge the first time, that I decided I wanted to try out another variant.... and then I really did like how they came out so much I couldn't resist sharing this set too!

Vid Exercises 1 (Variant 2!) --- Photograph || Baby One More Time

[thuviaptarth]

I love Kyousougiga and those are both great song choices for it, and great clip selections.

陈情令 | The Untamed Episodes 19-20

[thuviaptarth]

I was planning to do a difference source and then the Spotify gods gave me "Pay Your Way in Pain", so.

Pay Your Way in Pain/Bad Romance/Another Radio Song

Re: 陈情令 | The Untamed Episodes 19-20

[nu_breed]

*pterodactyl!screeching*

[snycock]

Thank you!

[seasaltmemories_14]

Happy to find another fan! Thank you for your kind words!

[thuviaptarth]

These are all great, but "Banana Phone" is sheer genius.

[nu_breed]

Ahhhhhh thank you so much! I am addicted to that archery scene and to the "I'll drink for him" scene. You're so right. He is absolutely doing the right thing and also being an arrogant shit and I love him so much for it :D

I'm so pleased you enjoyed them!

Re: 陈情令 | The Untamed Episodes 19-20

[seasaltmemories_14]

These had a fun contrast, definitely think it was worth switching to "Pay Your Way in Pain" as I had a lot of fun with that one

[actiaslunaris]

The second one has such pretty music and it draws out more of the relationship than the first one. I like how the first one draws out more of a theme of conflict versus the second one, which feels more like a theme of protection.

Guardian

[salamandras]

Here are Sha Ya and Lin Jing from Guardian. After a few false starts I figured out what I wanted to do. My computer is not up to the task of running Da Vinci Resolve smoothly, but I'm still pretty happy with how the audio and video lined up. I need to figure out if I can downgrade the video quality in the program's display (not in the actual file) to see if that helps. This was a fun exercise!

Let Me Go
Every Breath You Take

Re: Vidding Gravity Falls this year.

[salamandras]

These are wonderful! Your clip and music choices are really excellent. I don't have the technical language to talk about specifics of what worked for me, although I can recognize that I wholeheartedly agree with what Lola and everyone else wrote.

[avawatson]

Thank you so much!

[nu_breed]

Thank you! It really is, isn't it? :D

Re: I am doing WandaVision this year and I honestly hand to god have no idea what constitutes spoile

[snycock]

Those were all really interesting! The music choices gave really different impressions, and then the voice tracks over the last two were so completely different!

[snycock]

Those were wonderful! The music choices were all pretty different, but they all had that one longing phrase that you synced up beautifully with the clips.

Re: Vidding Gravity Falls this year.

[snycock]

I don't know the source, but it looked very intriguing and the music choices really helped with that!