1st exercises drops! vidding pechakuchas

[lola]

Hello all! Today's the day we kick off our first exercise. This exercise is designed to be reasonably accessible to all... if you're new to editing, then it's a doable way in, and if you already know your way around editing software, then it's addictively fun to make these pechakuchas and surprising how well they turn out! 

Here's the description: 

1) Pechakucha 2 ways

Create a video edit of exactly 60 seconds consisting of precisely 10 video clips from your chosen source text, each lasting precisely 6 seconds, assembled with straight cuts. Make two versions of your pechakucha, with 1 minute excerpts from two different songs as audio. Fade in and out on your audio at the beginning and end of the audio clip.

[Word to the wise: Most six second clips that you use are bound to have in-clip cuts--you don't have to go looking only for clips that have no internal cuts. But you can make those internal cuts work for you rhythmically or thematically etc!]

Then, when you're done, come back here to this post, and post a link in the comments to your completed exercise(s) when they're finished! 

[This exercise is inspired directly by the first of the videographic criticism exercises, but modified here to be vid/fanedit focused with the inclusion of music from an outside source. You can see some examples of the videographic pechakucha’s here: http://videographicessay.org/works/videographic-essay/videographic-pechakuchas?path=videographic-exercises and a more vidlike one Lola made here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ls9x7shBjDY.]

For all of these exercises, the rules are hard and fast, unless you don't want them to be :D Some people work best with really specific restrictions, others work best as rule breakers <3

So edit, share, question, mess around, and experiment! Have fun!

Stay tuned for posts & discussions on various video-editing softwares & on choosing your source.

Comments

[valoise]

For several years I've been thinking about vidding the 1985 movie Tampopo, so I've decided to use it for my source. I wanted to make one pechakucha upbeat and the other more downbeat using the same clips. Both are on one AO3 post.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23284078

[jinkyo]

Oh, these were fun to watch!

I love the jaunty pace of "Di-Gue-Ding-Ding". The clips at around :30 seconds, the heroine left to watch the pot and her peeking at the master as he cooks the meal was funny!


"Can't Get it Right Today" made me root for the heroine to get the dish right. The musical shift at :43 is really strong. It's like the training montage in a Rocky movie. the shot at :56, finishing the dish - that is so perfectly placed!

[valoise]

Thanks!