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

[bonibaru]

This is always the hardest one for me because it's the one I have the least experience in, so perhaps this year I will actually succeed to make one!

[nu_breed]

Quick question - are we able to make tweaks with the second music choice i.e. slowing down the speed of the text? Or should it replicate the original exactly?

[actiaslunaris]

Here's a rec for a Dean/Castiel animatic that uses typography to great effect: "No Light, No Light".

Vexercise 5: 陈情令 | The Untamed - Lyrical Play

[nu_breed]

Both lyric and instrumental versions on AO3.

[seasaltmemories_14]

So my original attempt went completely off the rails, so instead I repurposed an older WIP for this challenge, not super satisfied with the typography, but I am glad to have managed to cobble together something

Siren's Song // Undercurrent

[hardboiledbaby]

This was a great exercise; I learned a bunch and had fun doing it 😊 I don't expect to use on-screen lyrics a whole lot, but it's nice to know how to do it. Learning new things is fab! And playing with different techniques helps to make me more comfortable and confident with the process overall 💖

I Want You [Starsky/Hutch]

(BTW, if anyone is willing to watch my vids in reverse order, I'd be really interested in your thoughts 😊)

[snycock]

I got a really late start on this - I had a bunch of ideas and couldn't decide what I wanted to do, and I figured that putting text in was going to be a steep learning curve in Davinci Resolve, but, surprisingly, once I'd decided on lyrics, things actually came together fairly well. The text wasn't as difficult as I'd thought, it was actually sort of fun to play around with, and I'm pleased with how it came out.

I do only have one vid, though, because 4K Downloader has stopped working for me and so I couldn't download the song I took my lyrics from, and I had to use an instrumental piece I already had (and had used on a prior vid). Any advice? I've uninstalled and reinstalled, rebooted, turned my firewall off, done a virus check, and it just keeps telling me either it can't parse the link or it gives me an error.

Losing My Religion