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

Clarification about the time constraint

[avawatson]

Just wondering about this before I start cutting up the clips and music, but uh, is there a consensus on the one minute limit of the exercise? As in, is it considered part of the challenge to make the thing one minute exactly, or could I choose a 90 second song for this and it be considered fine (maybe encouraged)?

Re: Clarification about the time constraint

[lola]

Hi hi!! So all the guidelines are totally just guidelines. For some people the one minute limit is really helpful and they’ll try strictly to stick to it always, other people will make some that are a bit longer if the song demands it... some will make a minute version and then a longer version. It’s really totally up to you, and what works for you.
We do officially say that all the vexercises until the last free one are meant to be a minute, but we also say rules are made to be broken :) so go with your muse!

Re: Clarification about the time constraint

[bonibaru]

Here to echo what Lola said about doing what works best for you. The one minute limit is part of the challenge for sure, but if you are more experienced and find that limit so constricting that it hampers your creativity, if extending to 90 seconds inspires you to create within the other constricts of the challenge, I say give it a shot - the point is to get you creating and stretching and thinking and learning. What if you worked on a 60 second version and then a 90 second "director's cut"? That could be a really interesting compare/contrast exercise. If you HAD to trim 30 a third of your 90 seconds out - what would stay? What could go? Is it possible to make the same impact or does it completely change everything? If you were a professional and tasked to do a 60 second youtube spot for a client - or had to fit just 60 seconds in for a fanvid show at a con but you had 90 seconds of material, what would drive your choices?

And if all that thinking takes the fun out of it then just do the 90 seconds one and see what happens :D

Re: Clarification about the time constraint

[avawatson]

Alright, I appreciate the guidance (and quick replies), bonibaru and lola, thank you! I've got a lot of cuts to work out, hah.