Vexercise 1 Check In (2021 edition!)

[lola]

Hi all! Here we are, it's been one week in--how are your pechakuchas going?

So many have been posted already, I'm kind of amazed!! For those of you that have already dived (dove?) in, what was the experience like? How did you go through the process of narrowing down your visual source, choosing your clips, choosing your music? Any tech issues or other challenges you ran into?

For those of you who haven't yet started (um, this includes me) where are you at with it? Do you have some things you're still trying to decide on--like focus, etc? I'm working with a new source and haven't yet decided on which eps I'm going to use, I might just mess around and see what feels interesting!

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[nu_breed]

So I made 2 sets and the reason for that is a) they're addictive and b) I've chosen 4 episodes of The Untamed to work with so I did one pechakucha with clips from 25 and 26 and another with 42 and 43.

I had this idea to use Alone by Heart, because I wanted to use some elemental clips (snow, rain) and the LWJ seclusion flashback sequence from 43 and that just makes me think of epic emotions! And then I was like - hey, why not do an 80s theme! I had immense fun choosing my power ballads (and couldn't choose so I did 3 instead of 2).

The other one I was working with was a selection of more dynamic clips - I wanted to use the archery sequence (because I am shameless) and the slow pan on the Jinlintai steps and WWX's energy is much snappier and darker and rhythmic to me as opposed to LWJ's much more grounded, slow burn energy. I had the song Rattlesnake Smile by Kane in my head immediately because that dangerous smile and the tension of knowing he is going to snap any second now is what I always think of when I think of both these episodes (25 and 26) and lyrically it works. And then I wanted to play around a bit so I chucked in Go by The Chemical Brothers to try something more dancey with a good build. I also chose a third one again - Fire Woman by The Cult, which is just super sexy to me and also thematically appropriate.

And gee, I wonder which new source, Lola?:D

[lola]

ahaha which new source I will use? yes such an unfathomable mystery (eyes new default usericon)

your dynamic clip choices worked *So Well* it totally didn't feel the limits of the pechakucha clips at all! a++ use of the archery scene <3