Vexercise 5 drops! (lyrical play + )

[lola]

Hi folks! We're on to Vexercise 5!  You can of course do the OG version, as follows: 

Produce a 1 minute video edit from your selected source, in which lyrical interpretation ( guides your shot choice. You could interpret the lyrics literally or metaphorically/suggestively. Once you have completed this video, choose selected lyrics to incorporate creatively as text within the video. Then make a version of this video with the text, but substituting the original audio with a different piece of music that has no lyrics.

OR you can do a version with keyframes for moving text and text masking: 

Follow the guidelines for the OG version, but try using key frames for moving text or text masking. (Links for tutorials and examples coming soon)

Here are a couple of short tutorials for Premiere that I've found helpful. If you know of others, for Premiere or for other editing tools, please share in the comments and I'll add them to this post. 
 

Easiest Cinematic Title Minimal & Clean
How to place video within text
Add text behind a moving object
Typewriter effect 
How to Make a Lyric Video

Inspirations for typography (a whole playlist!) And feel free to rec more in the comments! 

Comments

[jinkyo]

Oh, this was really good! I'm familiar with the REM song, not the instrumental. I think you made some great lyric choices to put onscreen as text. "bigger" made me smile. I don't know the source well enough to understand what is happening here other than - Dude! big predator cat back there!

"You are not me" perfect text+visual

"I haven't said enough" really caught my attention- heck yeah for mastering masking!! I use Resolve too and have yet to have the courage to try this.

"me in the corner, me in the spotlight, losing my religion". For sources that I don't know, I end up creating my own stories to make sense of what I'm watching. I have no idea why the guy had to give a press conference but everything about his body language suggests it wasn't good. Along with the reactions from the other guy watching - this section felt so satisfying to watch. Like a very strong text+visual story conclusion.

Great work on this!!

** A 4K downloader note - I also got stuck with the parsing error last week. Under the help menu is the link to 4K's Twitter. They knew about the problem and got it fixed a few days later. LOL! too late for the project I was working on and I ended up screen recording the YT vid I needed. But, if you ever run into a 4K downloader issue again, check the Twitter because there's a good chance it's not just you and more likely a YT change that broke the software for a while.

[snycock]

Thank you! I'm so pleased that it worked for you! It was fun to think about which lyrics I was going to choose as text that fit what was going on. You are pretty much spot on about the press conference. :-)

The masking was SO EASY in Resolve. There's just a menu of things to choose from, and it will preview what it will look like on the screen.

And thanks for the note about 4K Downloader - that's good to know. I thought maybe it was just because I had reinstalled it. But I'm glad to know about their Twitter and I'll use it if another issue comes up.

Thank you again!