Round-Up Post: Exercise 1

[bonibaru]

Happy March 29th, vidders and viewers! Exercise 1: Pechakuchas is now complete! Here is the round-up of works that were completed, all in one handy post. If you haven’t had a chance yet to view your fellow participants’ work, please check them out and if so inclined, leave some likes/kudos/comments as you wish. IF I MISSED YOUR WORK or if a link isn’t correct, etc, please ping me and I will fix!

[If you’re joining us after “official” deadline and you’ve completed a set of pechakuchas, please leave a link in the comments of this post and/or add your works to the AO3 collection, I’ll ensure they get updated to this list. No Vexercise is ever really closed :) if the mood strikes you to make more, feel free to share!]


[Vid] What I Wish For and [Vid] Traitor, Our Doom
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
By extrapenguin

Dance to This and Love Yourself
Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
By lola

[Fanvid] Take On Me and [Fanvid] Armor
Fandom: HIStory3 - 圈套 | HIStory3: Trapped
By bonibaru

These Days / Should Have Known Better
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
By hexenmeister

Teenage Dream // Half A Person
Fandom: Velvet Goldmine
By gwenfrankenstien

[Fanvid] Dirty and Clean / Bad Intentions
Fandom: HIStory3 - 圈套 | HIStory3: Trapped
By bonibaru

Disturbed - The Sound of Silence and The House of Pain - Jump Around
Fandom: Ever After
By brokenmnemonic

Gunpowder - Wyclef Jean and the Refugee Allstars and Gouge Away - The Pixies
Fandom: The Professionals
By jinkyo

[Fanvid] eFlower / Comfort
Fandom: 镇魂 | Guardian (TV)
By naye

[VID] Ghost Song + Pictures of You
Fandom: ATEEZ (Band)
By caramarie

Only the Good // Hello Earth
Fandom: 방탄소년단 | Bangtan Boys | BTS
By lola

World on Fire / Light Em Up
Fandom: 琅琊榜 | Nirvana in Fire (TV)
By sarashina_nikki

Rusalka and Make Them Gold
Fandom: Grey’s Anatomy
By seekingferret

High On You (Survivor) // Amacala (Siphokazi)
Fandom: Black Panther (Movie)
By: sholio

[Vid] Tampopo
Fandom: Tampopo
By valoise

[VID EXERCISE] Chopsticks + American Woman + Faster and Faster + Nowhere Fast
Fandom: Twin Peaks
By thatyourefuse

My First Death/My Last Dance
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
By lola

[Fanvid] Blanket of Clouds // Calling Me Back
Fandom: Galileo (TV Japan)
By actiaslunaris

Straighten Up and Fly Right by Natalie Cole and Somethin' Stupid by Robbie Williams and Nicole Kidman
Fandom: Superman Animated Series
By melannen

3/Surround Me
Fandom: Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017), Mrs. Fletcher (TV)
By anoel

Spring Nicht (Tokio Hotel) and Falling (Harry Styles)
Fandom: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV)
By hannahneko

[Vid] sprawl & salé
Fandom: Hannibal (TV)
by allheadybooks


[vid] Alya Césaire Raises Hell and [vid] Alya Césaire, Woman of the Earth
Fandom: Miraculous Ladybug
by AlexSeanchai

Vexercise 2 Drops! Visual Continuity

[lola]

Hello everyone and welcome to Vexercise #2! This one is all about working with visual continuity, using match on action/motion matches and/or graphic matches.

The Details: Produce a 1 minute video edit on your selected source using motion matching (match-on-action) and graphic matches as your primary editing logics. Audio should be music of your own choosing.

Simply speaking, motion matching is connecting motion in one shot/scene to motion in another, to give the effect that the motion and energy flows from one scene to the next. Graphic matching juxtaposes visually similar elements (shapes, even colors) to suggest connections (or metaphors!) between one shot/scene and the next, or maybe between different characters etc. You can also keep one fixed visual element in the scene (like a character or a piece of furniture) while everything else changes, suggesting the progress of time or maybe narrative arcs.

Here are some vids that use visual continuity via motion matching and graphic matching (feel free to rec others in the comments!)

• Yuris in Love(starting at about 1.41)
• Motionography 2012
• Multifandom Mashup 2019 (for All the Graphic Matches)

And a really helpful video essay on different types of match cuts: (bonus with lots of helpful Sherlock examples!) This video is about match cuts in cinema and TV, but I think it's really cool how we can adapt these techniques to vidding/fan video editing.

We'll have a check in on April 5th, and the exercise is due on April 11th! (Though of course feel free to share yours earlier and/or later!)

Note: if your source isn't that movement-y, you may find yourself relying on graphic matches, and that's okay! The idea is to fight your source a little bit... to feel the challenge of it, but to still have fun with it and make something you like!