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]

I actually started doing the OG Vexercise #1 a couple of days ago just to get started, and finished it this morning!

Vexercise #1: Defying Gravity/Don't Stop Me Now - C-drama multifandom vid with the deep and introspective theme of "spinny action".

This was really fun. I haven't used Premiere Pro before so this has already given me a lot of confidence with the software. I loved working with the action clips. One thing I could see being a complication in future vids is the way the fight scenes in c-dramas will frequently drop into slow-mo or speed up. I mean, I love it, but it could be a challenge in pacing.

Anyway, I am very pumped up for vidding again and I need to decide what to do next!

[actiaslunaris]

So entertaining! I love the way you drew everything you could out of that theme and the second song was a delight.

[airawyn]

Thank you!

[nu_breed]

Ahhhhhh I loved both of these so much! Wonderful choice of dynamic clips and great song choices for such a fun dynamic sequence. Wei Wuxian is definitely Elphaba :D

[airawyn]

He really is! Thanks!

[bonibaru]

These are so good! I was just saying some stuff about the movement in the clips in WoH to Lola today totally unrelated to this exercise but I am absolutely on the same page as you about trying to figure out how to use how they do the intercutting and speeding/slowing effectively!

[airawyn]

Thank you! I guess that'll be something to experiment with.

[scytale]

Those were so fun to watch, and I was grinning all the way through "Don't Stop Me Now". And I love how literally it takes Defying Gravity.

[airawyn]

Thank you! I did "Don't Stop Me Now" first, and then I went through my iTunes library and "Defying Gravity" was the obvious choice.

[naye]

These are wonderful! ♥ I love how well the pacing work.

[airawyn]

Thank you!

[teyla]

Oh lmao I love these song choices for your theme; I could see an entire multifandom Wuxia vid to either. This was really fun! :D

[airawyn]

Thank you! That could be fun to try sometime.

[lola]

aaahhh!!! how are these so perfect! the lyric matches for defying gravity were So Perfect in every case, and I loved the shift in mood with Don't Stop Me Now. What an opening gambit as the first 20201 vexercise posted :D :D :D

[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?

[snycock]

Great music choices! I really enjoyed this!

[airawyn]

Thank you!

[amedia]

the deep and introspective theme of "spinny action"

LOL, such a great theme, and these were positively exhilarating to watch! It was very cool to see how both songs worked in different ways.

[airawyn]

Thank you!