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lola ([personal profile] lola) wrote in [community profile] vexercises2021-03-13 12:24 pm

Vexercise 1 Drops! (2021 Edition)

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 [personal profile] 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
snycock: (gratuitous touching)

[personal profile] snycock 2021-03-24 11:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. *deep breath* I'm just going to apologize right off the bat, because I've never vidded before, and I've never used DaVinci Resolve before, so this was a steep learning curve on both counts, and I'm sure these show it. I think I could do a much better job with cuts, and I didn't really have any theme other than wanting clips of Jim and Blair together (and possibly touching), but I wanted to play with how different music choices changed the feel of the vid.

Feel | Following - The Sentinel

If I have time I'm going to play around with Resolve some more and hopefully do a better job with clips (thank you Lola for the link to the tutorial!), so I might end up posting a couple more pechakuchas, but I wanted to get at least something in before Saturday so I wouldn't be behind.
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[personal profile] bonibaru 2021-03-26 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Wow! Distinctly different feeling between the two vids. I also liked that the music selection feels right for the time period of the show!
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[personal profile] snycock 2021-03-27 05:38 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
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Resolve Tutorials

[personal profile] jinkyo 2021-03-30 06:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Dropping a Resolve tutorial playlist here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtcvTwleZlZGdxEuHBkTPs3eHAmCGs4L3

PeeJ is an AMV Editor, but his tutorials are well made, short, and might be of use. There's also a Resolve AMV discord linked in his AMVs for Beginners vid: https://youtu.be/FMyyfMByq18 (I'm a live-action vidder, but they've been very welcoming)
actiaslunaris: Galileo - Yukawa Manabu browsing on a computer (examining the pixels)

[personal profile] actiaslunaris 2021-03-28 12:35 am (UTC)(link)
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.
snycock: (gratuitous touching)

[personal profile] snycock 2021-03-28 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, that's good to hear! That was definitely the vibe I was going for with the two music choices. Thanks!