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

[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

[lola]

okay, so I really loved both of these. First off, I thought the editing was beautiful in the first one and I was really swept up. For the first one, I found myself almost wanting a few more words to be text, maybe a bit more first person to draw me in? But then in the second one, the simplicity of "swimming" and "shore" as representing the characters and their journeys really really worked, which I thought was an interesting shift!
It looks like such a beautiful source too!!

[seasaltmemories_14]

Ahaha thank you! I'd be lying if I said the sparse text was all artistically inspired, I shot myself a bit in the foot by not giving myself more time to mess with the text, I had a lot of trouble getting the timing to match up with longer sentences and was kinda tired by that point, so instead I went for like a more abstract, stray thought concept, even though we do have that pool scene, there's not a lot of literal swimming, so I thought it would be cool to have more the motif of water be this ever present reminder pointing back towards their growing relationship

So in the end it was really useful to have that second video to further flesh out what I was going for!

[jinkyo]

The music for "Siren's Song" is gorgeous!

I'd read your comment's here before watching and took the typography for what it was. Dude, just making the vid is the win! I was expecting lyrics over that gorgeous jumping shot at :42, but at the same time, I respect the decision to let that shot stand as is (it's such a good shot!)
"Now I'm sunk" caught my attention because there's a very nice effect on the text and the same with "but somehow".
I rewatched to pay more attention to any effects on the single word text. Initially, I registered those all as fade-ins but on the 2nd watch, I see that there are more complex effects. For me, the effects were more noticeable on the longer lyrics.

Undercurrent - I watched this one second. My initial feeling was that the single words felt random. Gorgeous music and images, but no real connection with the text until "Now I'm sunk". Now the words are beginning to connect into their own water-themed story, especially with the visual of the girl falling to her knees. The splash into the pool and "but somehow" and that big smile! I can't really articulate what the text story meant, but it all came together like poetry and made me feel hopeful.

Thank you for making and sharing both of these - amazing work!!

[seasaltmemories_14]

And thank you for your kind words!! FYI the audio for "Siren's Song" comes from "Swimming" by Florence + The Machine, her catalog is great, in regards to the jumping shot, I feel like that was the perfect place to put some text, but at the same time, I was so attached to the shot and didn't want to distract from it, I'm very interested in movement, and balancing the time necessary to process/read text, with an upbeat, flowing pace can be really difficult

And yeah "Undercurrent" really didn't begin to pull together until I got to "now I'm sunk" and "but somehow" I tend to default to lyric play in general, but "Swimming" worked mostly with metaphor and simple language so I wasn't sure how to make it translate with just instrumental music, but since I was going for a love story of sorts, I thought the motif of water could show this push and pull as the two of them keep interacting/falling for each other, thanks again for your high praise!

[actiaslunaris]

I admire the reticence of choosing only keywords in the first with vocals, but they shine in the second with their abstract nature. It's very effective. Both vids are beautiful.

[seasaltmemories_14]

Ah it is great to hear it works! Thank you so much!