Vexercise 5 drops! (lyrical play + )

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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

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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!