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lola ([personal profile] lola) wrote in [community profile] vexercises2020-03-17 09:29 am
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1st exercises drops! vidding pechakuchas

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.



extrapenguin: Starry-eyed man looking upwards on a field of stars with the text 地星人 behind him (shen wei stars)

[personal profile] extrapenguin 2020-03-17 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
DaVinci Resolve unfortunately didn't install, so I'm now using kdenlive. It's a bit clunky, but idk if that's just me not knowing how half the shit works, or the program itself being clunky. I have 9 out of 10 6-second slots all slotted (and a few backup candidates for the 10th one), so Pechakucha 1 is almost there! (It's to a section of this song ~0:41-1:41, using Guardian as the video source. Then it's time to search for a second song...)
bonibaru: boot heel! (Default)

[personal profile] bonibaru 2020-03-17 07:13 pm (UTC)(link)
*raises hand* I have a question!

When I watched the Twin Peaks example I was a little confused because I thought there were more than ten 6-second clips used, but after seeing an example with a source I am more familiar with I think I understand better now: a clip may be a continuous scene, yes? With inter-scene jump or other cuts? You do not have to have 6 seconds with no internal cuts, times ten. Yes?
Edited 2020-03-17 19:13 (UTC)
extrapenguin: Ye Zun goes Yay! with sunburst-thingy behind him (ye zun sunshine)

[personal profile] extrapenguin 2020-03-17 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I found my final clip! \o/ And managed to make a vid! Now, to figure out another song – I think I "overfitted" the clips to my song. (The intent was to present the same visual material with two different audios, right?) In the interests of starting out, I just did clip selection and placement, but it does seem to have color grading and more, uh, noticeable effects as well. I might tinker with them on later assignments.

Do you have any recommendations on hosting? Youtube?
extrapenguin: Northern lights in blue and purple above black horizon. (Default)

[personal profile] extrapenguin 2020-03-17 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, the same visual material, two different audios, to play with the way visuals can convey so differently with different audios...
Great! :D Part 2 with the different song shall have to wait for tomorrow, but I uploaded the first version to YouTube! What I Wish For. Concrit welcome, though idk how much would be relevant for a non-pechakucha – the 6s clip length was a challenge for my level of footage-memory.
bonibaru: (jack)

[personal profile] bonibaru 2020-03-18 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
OK! All done and uploaded: HIStory3: Trapped, Jack & Zhao Zi. I limited myself to episodes 9 and 10 (the last two). It made it harder in some ways but easier in others. And I'm still really itching for transitions AND it's making me CRAZY not to adjust the timing on beats lol ..... but ... I will survive!

Version 1: Take on Me
Version 2: Armor
extrapenguin: A man happily leans into another man's embrace, surrounded by hearts. (weilan cuddle)

[personal profile] extrapenguin 2020-03-18 07:41 am (UTC)(link)
This is so lovely!!! It awoke all my slumbering Guardian feels!
\o/ Yay!!!! I picked my second song overnight and rendered in the morning, so I guess I've completed exercise #1? Hopefully the audio is different enough. :P Vid version 2.
hexenmeister: (Default)

[personal profile] hexenmeister 2020-03-18 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't read the fine print about confining yourself to two episodes, whoops.

This challenge was so fun and generative! I'd been feeling stuck on clipping for another vid, and this helped make that feel more doable.

My Sad Dad Lan Wangji vidlets for The Untamed:
Version 1: These Days
Version 2: Should Have Known Better
extrapenguin: Zhu Jiu from Guardian enthusing about his self-insert RPF (zhu jiu enthused)

[personal profile] extrapenguin 2020-03-18 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! Thank you for the hand-holding. :] It's really interesting how they both worked okay – I have vague theories about having similar BPMs, so the places where the music had a beat would've been similar for both, but idk if that has any basis in reality. (And for the second one, I kept imagining the POV as Zhu Jiu lurking in the bushes, ranting about Shen Wei betraying Dixing. *g*)
bonibaru: (jack)

[personal profile] bonibaru 2020-03-19 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
It turns out I like the second song so much better than the first and the only reason I really chose it was the same tempo, but then I saw how well it fits Jack, and, well.

I think you would like this secondary pairing. Jack is a former military assassin turned hired gang mercenary with many secrets who falls for the wide open golden-hearted ingenue young cop who hasn't got a disingenuous bone in his entire body.
bonibaru: (lan wangji lan wangji)

[personal profile] bonibaru 2020-03-19 01:06 am (UTC)(link)
YOU HURT ME

(I can't wait to see what you do next!)

It's OK to not confine yourself - as Lola said the rules can be flexible. Art resists boundaries by its very nature, lol.
bonibaru: (history3)

[personal profile] bonibaru 2020-03-19 01:11 am (UTC)(link)
Updating with the AO3 links (I forgot you can't edit comments once there's a reply)

Take on Me https://archiveofourown.org/works/23195080

Armor https://archiveofourown.org/works/23195140
wyomingnot: booted feet on the front desk (Default)

[personal profile] wyomingnot 2020-03-19 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Question! Do the clips need to be in the same order?
bonibaru: boot heel! (Default)

[personal profile] bonibaru 2020-03-19 04:09 am (UTC)(link)
To stick to the particulars of the exercise, yes; part of the exercise is to see how the two different pieces of music impact against the choices you made.

But as Lola mentioned: 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 if you really have a strong desire for creative purposes, to rearrange the clips for some particular reason - there's no grade, you won't fail :D You will just have a different experience of the challenge.

bonibaru: boot heel! (Default)

[personal profile] bonibaru 2020-03-19 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
I REALLY wanted to use transitions between a couple of my clip choices even though technically it was against the rules, but I didn't. But I could have! But I didn't. But I could have and it would have been OK.
brokenmnemonic: (Constantine)

[personal profile] brokenmnemonic 2020-03-19 10:35 am (UTC)(link)
This looks like fun and a great idea - when I've finished work for the day, I'm going to have to start poking the vid sources I've got on my PC and see if I can join in :D

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