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

[seasaltmemories_14]

Hello, I decided to make a stab at this and vidded one of my more obscure interests: Kyousougiga

The Pain of Coming Home | Generational Mistakes

It took me a while to get in the mindset, but once I allowed myself to make mistakes, I had a lot of fun, it felt very puzzle-like and scratched a different itch than the usual vidding process does

[actiaslunaris]

These are very cool. I feel like I just wandered into a museum, that was showing a multimedia abstract presentation. I like the kaleidoscopic colors and the music was very immersive.

[seasaltmemories_14]

Thank you!! Kyousougiga takes a lot of inspiration from Lewis Carroll works as a whole, less picking specific iconography, but going for an off-kilter daydream-like feeling, so there is a lot of fun imagery to play around with, this exercise got me thinking more abstract as well

[lola]

Okay, first of all, I absolutely must watch Kyousougiga immediately. Not only is it clearly *gorgeous* but I just read a description of the plot and woah. Yeah, that's happening.

Secondly, I loved these! I mean, all vidding is art, but these really felt like *art* (lol and now I see that Actiaslunaris said something similar!) These felt so creative and like wonderful visual rides/experiences.

[seasaltmemories_14]

Ahahaha glad to get more people interested in the show, some of the details are hard to communicate in an elevator pitch, but it really is a touching exploration about all the pains and joys of family.

I actually struggled a bit with this at first as I am someone who loves lyrical matching/editing and the six seconds just can feel like a life time, so I focused more on trying to find clips that had a lot of interesting visuals I could fall back on, ended up much more abstract and surprisingly fun!

[bonibaru]

this made me feel super nostalgic for my AMV days. I liked how you pulled everything together!

[seasaltmemories_14]

Thank you ^^ For the longest times AMVs were my guilty pleasures, eventually I just decided eventually embrace them as my interest in vidding grew

[thuviaptarth]

I love Kyousougiga and those are both great song choices for it, and great clip selections.

[seasaltmemories_14]

Happy to find another fan! Thank you for your kind words!

[snycock]

What an interesting source, with all the different styles of animation. I thought the music choices went with it really nicely.

[seasaltmemories_14]

Thank you!! The animation alone makes Kyousougiga a treat to work with, on top of being a very good family drama