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

[allheadybooks]

Here we go!! I did two totally different pechakuchas, just like last year, since I initially misunderstood the prompt but it ended up being very fun that way. I'm working with a new-to-me source, Atomic Blonde, and compared to last year's source (mostly the first season of Hannibal) it's been very fun so far: more fight scenes and less talky bits, since they have less run time to fill than TV show would, and--less run time! Clipping is going so fast!

I set one vid to The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Heads Will Roll" and the other to Edith Piaf's "Je Sais Comment," and you can find links and embedded video to them both here:

Permanent AO3 link for both vids
off with their heads on YouTube
Je Sais Comment on YouTube

[bonibaru]

Oh I really like these!

[shopfront]

I'm only passingly familiar with this source but I love how you've evoked such a strong vibe with each of these. It's very pretty-Charlize-action-movie in a very good way, even without knowing the movie well. That first sequence for off with their heads is also particularly well done, it has a fun almost disorienting effect and the lyric match really pulls it through.