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

[alba17]

I'm totally late because I only found out about this relatively recently. I haven't vidded for *years* so I had to kind of update and get up to speed. This is a good opportunity for me to get back into it because making a 1 minute vid is a lot less intimidating that a full song and it sounded like fun.

I'm using The Old Guard as my source. My first song was I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie, which I always want to vid for every fandom, but this is the first time I've actually sat down and used it. YouTube blocked it, so I had to use Vimeo. Into the Dark

For my second song, I used a peppy, funny one, Everything is Awful by The Decemberists. Everything is Awful

[nu_breed]

Hey stranger!!! I enjoyed both of these but especially Everything is Awful - it really juxtaposed the clips BEAUTIFULLY so that the clips that were happy felt much more disquieting and built an immense sense of dread for me (and of course it all goes horribly wrong for many of these people *sobs over Quynh*)

[alba17]

Hello! This was an interesting experiment. I'm glad the Awful one worked! I had no idea. I picked the clips for the other song and just hoped it would work for the 2nd one, lol, and then I couldn't really tell if it did or not. I can see I'm going to be very behind on this the whole time. Exercise 2 looks a lot harder. I only just started trying to find clips, argh, and also have no idea what song to use. I'm so happy to be vidding again though!