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

[thatyourefuse]

Roundtable Rival

... Yes I maybe got drunk and threw most of this together, like, a week ago. sssh. This one DEFINITELY has spoilers through WandaVision episode 8; I was actually planning to move through to the finale! but episode 8 gave me, uh, a lot to work with, there.

This was fun. It may or may not end up being a test sketch for my final vid, but it was so much fun.

[scytale]

Wow, this was absolutely stunning. (And I think I may just have to watch the show now.)

[thatyourefuse]

... I keep having hand-flapping anxiety over here about exposing people to spoilers, but 💖 thank you! (It is definitely recommended even if you're not overall an MCU person; it's amazingly weird.)

[scytale]

I think I am already spoiled! I read a review. :)

[naye]

Oh I LOVE this! Super stunning! I am unfamiliar with the source but I adore how many emotions it threaded through with the visual matches.

[thatyourefuse]

Thank you! (although ack, spoilers.) A truly incredible amount of this is all just from the one episode. It's kind of amazing. I had planned to cover a lot more plot-ground, but there just KEPT being visual parallels to work with!

[bonibaru]

HOLY WOW

[thatyourefuse]

Thank you! I absolutely feel like I cheated with this one, because like 90% of the footage is from one episode; they just KEPT giving me amazing visual matches, though, and the lightbuilding challenge was such a perfect one for this show overall, holy wow indeed.

[actiaslunaris]

Gorgeous! I love the theme a lot and the music is so energetic at tying it all together.

[thatyourefuse]

Thank you! (I'm so gone on these witches, oh man.)

[lola]

ahhhh I loved this! I love the color work in this and the light building (and by build, I mean, wow, was there build... what on earth is going on in this show lol? :D)

[thatyourefuse]

Thank you! The second I actually read the exercise description I knew EXACTLY what I was doing -- such a cool thing to focus on!

what on earth is going on in this show lol? :D

Uh... stuff? I think I have to just go with "stuff?" (AFAIK it's the first MCU offering to really drop the mask of science-fantasy and change gears into magic -- actually, I would argue very strongly that it's a straight occult horror, but only one character actually knows that for most of the runtime. I've been a bit let down before by the MCU doing a genre I love in TV format and fueled hugely by antagonistic f/f vibes, but I mean also... damn.)

[alba17]

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