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

[seasaltmemories_14]

So I am already deviating from my original source material, but when I saw this challenge I knew the exact audio/video match I had in mind, so I went over to Revolutionary Girl Utena

Hand in Unlovable Hand

It was hard pushing myself outside of the lyrical match mindset but I think I found a lot of fun parallels/mirroring going on and so mostly focused on graphic matches (though a bit of lightbuilding def also wormed its way in)

[bonibaru]

WOW! I really like this. The audio/video synergy is really spot on :D excellent graphics matching!

[seasaltmemories_14]

Thank you, RGU definitely plays around with setting up certain patterns and parallels, not to mention handholding is such a common motif of their relationship (seriously I didn't even manage to include all the examples) It is definitely a fun source to play around with graphics matching

[actiaslunaris]

So much symbolism! It's beautiful.

[seasaltmemories_14]

Thank you so much! Utena has such beautiful imagery I always struggle with having to decide which clips not to include ^^'

[lola]

Ummm... I have a lot of feelings about this. Was the proper response for me to be yelling Anthy!!! And then Utena!! And then sort of want to tragically laugh and cry at the same time?

More coherently, I really loved the use of graphic matches--I feel like RGU plays with that itself and so it felt so appropriate here.

[seasaltmemories_14]

Mwahaha that tends to be my general reaction to thinking about those two in general, so that's the perfect response!

And totally, some of these matches/parallels I was pretty familiar with, but noticing that Utena and Anthy both arched their back the same way when getting stabbed is that sorta lightbulb moment that made me know I had to go with this combo

[naye]

Well that was AMAZING! Such a good match with the song, and the hand sequence in particular was so, so satisfying.

[seasaltmemories_14]

I more or less made this vid just to make that hand sequence and probably spent the most time trying to get it right lol, so glad the effort paid off ^^

[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 ^^'