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

[nu_breed]

I didn't intend on finishing this today but I was having so much fun! I actually did three but couldn't decide which one to drop so I just uploaded them all anyway.

I inadvertantly went with a theme as soon as I picked Heart's Alone and I call this Wangxian does the 80s

Alone| Summer Rain| All the Things She Said.

[actiaslunaris]

Beautiful choices of clips and the theme is very suited to them.

[nu_breed]

Thank you so much!

[bonibaru]

I never realized just how 80s PowerBallad Lan Wangji is but omg he is so much that.

[nu_breed]

I did not either until I started playing with my truly embarrassingly vast 80s music collection but he REALLY IS.

[scytale]

I really enjoyed the difference between all three, and how the songs shifted the focus of the clips! I don't think I even noticed that it was raining in some of the clips until "Summer Rain", for instance. :)

I like how thematically 80s all of the songs are, but how they focused on different parts of Wangxian. The first one felt the most focused on Lan Wangji's sadness to me, the second felt cheerfully nostalgic, while the third felt the most defiantly optimistic.

[nu_breed]

Ahhhhh this is so lovely to hear thank you so much!!! I’m really thrilled that they all felt so different to you :)

It’s so fascinating what a difference song choice can make, isn’t it? I often like to play around with different songs on completed vids to see who the new song fits best in terms of tone and musicality - it’s a really fun exercise and really beneficial I think.

[nu_breed]

Posted to the AO3 collection :)

[amedia]

Wow wow wow!

"Alone" is so gorgeously bombastic that at first it felt like a commentary on how extra LWJ is. The transition from the blood dripping down his hand to him giving WWX the energy transfusion got me thinking that there was more to it--it's an awesome cut. And then the line "I never really cared until I met you" and the clip you matched it with gave me totally unironic FEELS. ♥

"Summer Rain" felt so different, so much lighter, but also wistful.

"All the Things She Said" - I was expecting Tat2 and then I realized it wasn't from the 80's! I liked how this song was more downbeat and I found myself seriously admiring the cuts and especially how it's consistently clear that we're always looking through LWJ's eyes.

[nu_breed]

Ahhhh so glad you enjoyed it - I was inspired to use Alone because one of my favourite vids from Merlin fandom is sisabet's Alone and I thought it would be fun to play around with the song - it is soooo dramatic :D

So happy you enjoyed them!

[airawyn]

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

[nu_breed]

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

[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.

[nu_breed]

Thank you so much!