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

[jinkyo]

Oh! Two very different feels in these videos and I dig them both! I don't know HIStory3: Trapped. The first video read like the swooniest of love stories, like an established couple. The second song gave it a new read to me, as if the redhead was actively courting the dark-haired character. Like he had to break through the dark-haired one's resistance until at the end, they were together. This one felt like there was a lot of story between the lines for me, the viewer, to fill in.

[bonibaru]

Oh thank you for that feedback! I read it with a big grin on my face. There is a lot of story between this pairing, to be sure. Aspects of both of your interpretations are true and I'm making notes about the song choices here in particular because especially when thinking about making recruiter vids to lure other people into your fandoms (by the way Trapped is on Viki w/subtitles and is only 10 episodes long, heheh) then it can be tricky to try to capture the real feel of a relationship without all the background and context from the dialogue and so on. What you said is SUPER helpful. Thank you!