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

[naye]

New year, new source! (I mean, I fully intend to keep switching sources like I did last year, but this is new in every sense of the word.)

For The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity (2020) - Dragonfly Keeper / Bad Romance.

I assembled the clips to the instrumental version, and then played around with Bad Romance until it hit some amazing beats. It's very tongue-in-cheek - I don't think this particular romance is bad in any way! But how was I supposed to resist the opportunity to match Oh la la to a character appearing from behind a swirling sleeve?

[lola]

Oh wow, Naye, do these ever demonstrate how different music can create a completely different interpretation of the text! I hadn't read what you wrote and so after watching Bad Romance, I somehow thought that it must of been the first one that was showing a sweet version of a darker story--Bad Romance totally had me convinced that those two are dangerous for one another lol :D
This made me very curious about The Yin-Yang Master, also--it looks quite beautifully shot!!

[naye]

Oh wow, Naye, do these ever demonstrate how different music can create a completely different interpretation of the text!
Right?! Bad Romance isn't a song I would've picked for a full vid, simply because of how it's not how the ship really is at all - but for this exercise it was so perfect!

There are two movies on Netflix right now called "The Yin-Yang Master" (based on the Japanese "Onmyouji" books in various ways) - this is the one with the subtile "Dream of Eternity" and it is so gorgeous. Also fun and with a great ship! But yeah, the visuals are sumptuous.

[bonibaru]

GREAT now I'm gonna have to watch this aren't I lol

[naye]

Put it on your list! You'll like it! :D

[amedia]

Yes yes yes!!! The second one is SOOOOO slashy. (I suspect the first one is a better movie ... but I just ate the second one up!)

[snycock]

These were lovely! The difference between the instrumental piece and Bad Romance was very striking. I don't know the source, but it's gorgeous!

[amedia]

I just finished watching the movie last night, so today I said to myself, "Now I can watch the mini-vids, yay!!!!"

Oh, wow, those were so cool! I'm always intrigued by instrumental vids and I really thought the first one captured the graceful movement and the wonder of the images. The second one was a hoot!!! And yet the movement still worked so well, like the "oh la la" movement, as well as Boya lowering his bow on the word "romance."