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

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*

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

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[amedia]

WOW WOW WOW - These were amazing! Such different "feels" with each different song. I especially liked how the slowness of the third song seemed to make the clips look almost like they were in slow-motion, even though they were the same. Also the way you ended the second one on the word "revenge." And the way the opening moments of the first one looked like the fires were flickering in time with the backbeat.

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[shopfront]

I really, really love what you've done with the music choices here. I think the last song fits the clips best, it really makes them pop (as much as anything slow can pop, but I can't think of a better way to express it. They work beautifully with it though), but then Bad Romance gives it a very different intense almost uniquely fannish vibe and Pay Your Way makes it feel trippy almost to the point of comedic absurdity. I was really impressed by how radically different a feel each song gives the vid, and I really enjoyed the contrast.