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!

Comments

[seasaltmemories_14]

I really love either rhythmic editing that hits what feels like every beat or lyrical editing that captures the source material really well, so for this exercise I just kinda had to let go of those perceptions, I actually ended up specifically picking music sources I wasn't too attached to so I wouldn't feel like I was "missing" out on making this perfect vid I could fantasize about in my head

With that in mind I also looked for songs with a more or less consistent tempo so that I could somewhat follow the changes in the music, for "The Pain of Coming Home," there were still a lot of very prominent music cues I wanted to catch, so I kinda focused on those and then built around it

Ironically I ended up really preferring "Generational Mistakes" usually I struggle with editing repetitive songs, but "Anthems For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl," has this six second refrain that is actually perfect for pechakuchas, almost feels like cheating to use it, still I found some really amazing examples of sync purely on accident

Overall I think this exercise helped me loosen up some, I can get caught up in trying to find the perfect clip, from hours of footage, have restrictions really can encourage creativity in ways too many choices sometimes hinder

[hardboiledbaby]

for this exercise I just kinda had to let go of those perceptions, I actually ended up specifically picking music sources I wasn't too attached to so I wouldn't feel like I was "missing" out on making this perfect vid I could fantasize about in my head... Overall I think this exercise helped me loosen up some, I can get caught up in trying to find the perfect clip, from hours of footage, have restrictions really can encourage creativity in ways too many choices sometimes hinder

Oh, this sums up my feelings exactly! *high fives*