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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[thatyourefuse]

I didn't really have a direction in mind before diving into mine, and I ended up being surprised by where it went!

"Better Things" was kind of the first song I could pull from my music library that gave me a nice 60-second chunk of lyrics to work with; obviously starting on "here's wishing you the bluest skies" meant I HAD to open with the colorization, and staying in color until the very last clip meant that dropping into the b/w rewind effect was like extra jarring. Then I made a decision about the POV on that song, and... I just stopped dead in this laundromat and realized I think I accidentally picked up and used something REALLY CLEVER from the opening credits of ep 6, which I absolutely cannot go into without megaspoilers.

I wasn't expecting it to be so much about the twins, but once I'd decided to use mostly the color eps + Agnes onscreen for every "I" in the lyrics + how could I not have the shot I did for "hoping all the verses rhyme," the pechakucha format put some REALLY interesting constraints on the clips I could use.

"People Are Strange" was the second version I did, but I decided to put it first because I really liked seeing the clip sequence that looked disjointed and eerie with that music turn into something fast and upbeat and artificial with the song it was vidded to. I don't know if that came across as much as I wanted, but I like it.

[lola]

I love haring about your process! I'm gonna have to talk to you about this more after I've watched wandavision :D

[thatyourefuse]

I can't wait! This show really did come out at the perfect time -- there's SO MUCH without being an unwieldy amount of source.