Vexercise 2 Drops! Visual Continuity &/or Lightbuilding

[lola]

Hi everyone!! We are on to Vexercise 2! So for this round, there are two options:

Vex 2: The OG Version:

Visual Continuity: Produce a 1 minute video edit on your selected source using match-on-action and graphic matches as your primary editing logics. The motion of each shot should seem to continue into motion in the following shot. Audio should be music of your own choosing.

Here's a really helpful video on different types of match cuts (bonus with lots of helpful Sherlock examples!) This video is about match cuts in cinema and TV, but I think it's really cool how we can adapt these techniques to vidding/fan video editing.

Some vids that use visual continuity, match on action, and graphic matching (feel free to rec others in the comments!)

Yuris in Love(starting at about 1.41)
Motionography 2012
Multifandom Mashup 2019 (for All the Graphic Matches)

Vex 2: Follow the light. (aka Lightbuilding)

Lim talks about this in Demystifying Vidding. Produce a 1 minute vid where your guiding logic is lightbuilding. Try letting the flow and build of light guide your editing choices throughout. (You can still incorporate match-on-action as well, so this sort of builds on the OG version)

 

Wunderland (Ghibli, by Traf)
Flow (Elementary, (Bones), House, The Mentalist, Person of Interest, Sherlock, The X-Files 1, by Lim)

【水龙吟】Epic Fighting Scene Mix Cut of Word of Honor (Word of Honor, by AvenueX)

Please suggest more examples for either version, or ask any questions in the comment, and have fun! It's been amazing seeing all the Vex 1s come in, can't wait to see what folks create for this one!

ETA Thanks to nu_breed  for these additional excellent examples!

Graphic/motion matching:
Nothing is Safe by Thuvia Ptarth (Watchmen)
Starships by Bironic (Multifandom)
Juice by Sisabet (Disney villainesses) - the opening is a perfect example
Move Your Body by ohvienna (Xena)

Light Building and graphic/motion matching:
Monsters of the Cosmos - by Cherry (MCU)
Expo by Lim (MCU) - there's a snippet linked in their post but the entire vid is perfection tbh
Overcome by Sweetestdrain (SW:Rogue One)
Happy Now by pollyrepeat and jonesandashes (SW:Clone Wars)

Comments

vexercise 2

[bonibaru]

chasing light: for Word of Honor here on AO3

[lola]

I totally meant to do the light building one for this, but the thing I started as light building mutated into a full vid, and then this is the vexercise that came out. So, for the visual continuity/match on action/graphic matching version of the challenge:

Love Like Mine (Word of Honor)
on youtube
on a03

It features footage through ep 33, but just brief visuals for motion, so not very spoilery really!

[snycock]

So I did both graphic matching and match on action (I think?). I was going for graphic matching on the ridiculously giant cell phones used in The Sentinel, but I was also trying to get a conversational flow of calling and answering.

Telephone on AO3

[scytale]

I did match on action and graphic matching for mine, for episodes 19-20 of The Untamed.

Murk and Mire

Content note just in case: There are a couple of motion matches that swap between light and dark backgrounds for a bit -- I think they're slow enough they shouldn't count as flashing, but I don't have a good feel for this.

[lola]

So under the wire, I did one more, a light building one, because that had been my original intention, and I just couldn't seem to let it go.

Study in Light (images through ep 24 of word of honor, but again, really just images, not plot details, not really spoilery in any kind of plot sense)
on youtube
on a03

Lightbuilding - The Terror

[jinkyo]

The Terror - Dream of Sheep

I had an abundance of light and my initial efforts stalled because what is even lightbuilding? Eventually, I pared everything back and narrowed the focus to Crozier's beautiful face, cool winter light, and warm ship lamplight - and a loose narrative (because it turns out I can't cut without a story).

I also acquired shiny HD source footage! But, the files cut all weird and clunky in Resolve. I hope that's just because I put the files on the wrong drive because the hurky-jerk preview and imprecise blading sucked balls.

[seasaltmemories_14]

Wow this was the perfect source for this prompt! Really love the energy you brought with this vid!

Re: vexercise 2

[seasaltmemories_14]

Ah love the use of colors here!

[seasaltmemories_14]

Ah this vid was so much fun! Love the little sync with the light chime sound and cracked nut

[actiaslunaris]

Pretty! I really liked the motion match at :43; it worked very well!

[scytale]

Thank you! :D

That one was actually pure luck! I think it just ended up lining up on the timeline, and then I went, "huh, I think this works" after struggling with both of those clips separately for a bit.

In the spirit of "done is better than perfect"...

[hardboiledbaby]

Part Of Me, Part Of You

I started off clipping for action and graphic matches, but when I was putting them in the timeline I fell into trying to match the lyrics, and the visual continuity suffered for it. And frankly, I found it harder to do! Many props to the vidders that do this well. (Am looking forward to viewing other folks' vids!)

I meant for the corridor scenes to be a throughline, but it doesn't quite come off. I did like how the clips with S&H in their cars turned out. There are a couple of glitchy things that I am *not* going to stress about.

I stuck with Starsky and Hutch, and intended to source clips from only four eps, in keeping with the general Vexercise guidelines, but alas, I ended up grabbing from five.

All in all, I think this exercise has made me more aware of how visual continuity is used. I hope to incorporate the technique more in the future 😊

[allheadybooks]

Yes it's done! A day late but hopefully not a dollar short. Another Atomic Blonde vid, focusing on match-on-action for a dance-like feel. Once again set to Edith Piaf (this time Je Ne Regrette Rien) because the marching rhythm of her songs is weirdly perfect for cutting together fight scenes.

Permanent AO3 link for rien de rien
rien de rien on YouTube

[alba17]

Fantastic. There sure is a lot of color and light to work with in this show! The last shot is perfect.

[alba17]

This is really great! Falling...Hands...

[seasaltmemories_14]

Thank you! I'd say it was a match made in heaven, but considering the angst, it might be from somewhere else ^^'

[alba17]

Better late than never. I'm pretty much running one behind. This was challenging but fun. I focused on action matching. I also chose clips for light but just couldn't fit them in. There were some really good light-related moments in my source (The Old Guard). Could've worked on this endlessly probably but at a certain point just wanted to finish it. Discovered some cool motion matches in the movie itself.

Catch Hell