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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[hardboiledbaby]

When it came down to brass tacks, it took some effort to convince my brain that by its very nature this pechakucha is not supposed to be 'perfect' and so it not being 'perfect' isn't failing. Ugh, my brain is evil. But letting go of that perfectionism mindset might be the single most effective skill the Vexercises will teach me, so I'm glad I joined the comm and I look forward to doing more :)

As for the vidding process itself: Starsky and Hutch; I used one episode only (The Fix, because I lurves teh waaaangst). I chose "Blinding Lights" because I thought the energy and pace of the song fit Hutch's desperate need to get back to Starsky, without feeling like I had to be matchy-matchy to the lyrics. For the second song, I looked for one that more explicitly honed in on the drug addiction aspect. Voila, "Cold Turkey."

Overall, I enjoyed the exercise! Using two different songs was a very illuminating twist. Now, to start thinking about #2...

[amedia]

it took some effort to convince my brain that by its very nature this pechakucha is not supposed to be 'perfect' and so it not being 'perfect' isn't failing. l

I think our brains came from the same factory!!!

But letting go of that perfectionism mindset might be the single most effective skill the Vexercises will teach me,

I love this insight!!! ♥