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What's the deal with these pikachus?
Mar. 19th, 2020 01:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lolaWe thought it would be worthwhile to talk about the origins and reasoning behind the pechakuchas (and to some degree, all of the exercises).
So, pechakuchas originated as a still image presentation format--where you present 20 images, each for twenty seconds. https://www.pechakucha.com/
The folks who created the videographic criticism exercises (which were in turn the inspiration for these vidding exercises) adapted the pechakucha for video rather than still images. The pechakucha is the first of the videographic exercises, and it's designed to be an accessible way into editing for newbies. The constraints are there to make it possible to focus on learning the tech skills, but also because it's fascinating to see what creativity can come from those limits.
I feel like it's the constraints that also make these fun to do for ppl who already know their way around editing tools; it takes certain choices away and so we have to dig deeper and differently and the results are surprising and sometimes reveal something about the media we're working with that we wouldn't get at otherwise, if we were just doing our usual thing.
Adapting these for vidding, I thought it was an opportunity to think about the impact of music in vids--the same set of shots can have such a different effect with musical choice! And the six second clip is a really challenge for vidders, when our edits are usually faster than that, and we don't usually use internal edits. I feel like that makes this an especially interesting exercise for folks who have already made some vids, because we have to learn to work with our media in a new way, finding ways to make the internal edits work for us instead of just dismantling them completely.
If you've already started the pechakuchas, how have you found the seemingly arbitrary limits? Frustrating? Creatively stimulating? A bit of both? And how about the notion of applying the different music to the same clips? Personally, I find it kind of crazy how a second piece of music that I didn't plan can totally change the feel of my vid but still work!
So, pechakuchas originated as a still image presentation format--where you present 20 images, each for twenty seconds. https://www.pechakucha.com/
The folks who created the videographic criticism exercises (which were in turn the inspiration for these vidding exercises) adapted the pechakucha for video rather than still images. The pechakucha is the first of the videographic exercises, and it's designed to be an accessible way into editing for newbies. The constraints are there to make it possible to focus on learning the tech skills, but also because it's fascinating to see what creativity can come from those limits.
I feel like it's the constraints that also make these fun to do for ppl who already know their way around editing tools; it takes certain choices away and so we have to dig deeper and differently and the results are surprising and sometimes reveal something about the media we're working with that we wouldn't get at otherwise, if we were just doing our usual thing.
Adapting these for vidding, I thought it was an opportunity to think about the impact of music in vids--the same set of shots can have such a different effect with musical choice! And the six second clip is a really challenge for vidders, when our edits are usually faster than that, and we don't usually use internal edits. I feel like that makes this an especially interesting exercise for folks who have already made some vids, because we have to learn to work with our media in a new way, finding ways to make the internal edits work for us instead of just dismantling them completely.
If you've already started the pechakuchas, how have you found the seemingly arbitrary limits? Frustrating? Creatively stimulating? A bit of both? And how about the notion of applying the different music to the same clips? Personally, I find it kind of crazy how a second piece of music that I didn't plan can totally change the feel of my vid but still work!
