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]

I don't know this source, which is fun for me because I'm literally making up a story (imparting meaning) to the images and sound as I watch.

So, in the first video, I got the sense that the main character should NOT have helped that child. That he carries some great responsibilities on his shoulders and maybe has to bear that alone. I don't know if it's the same child the shows up again in the video, but for me, that read as him forcing himself to ignore the childlike joy the kid was trying to share in order to keep up his responsibility. Watching the fireworks, and later, in the field of rabbits, these are rare times when he can drop the weight he carries and just *be*.

The second vid surprised me, in that, it seemed to tell the same story, but in a different way. It's like the first video was a poem, with sound and image that I had to unravel for myself. The second video was more a short story, with the lyrics adding a foundation for me to interpret the images.

Both were gorgeous!

[hexenmeister]

Oh wow, this is such a cool reflection. It's so interesting to hear what story you built out of the images.

agghhh you've made me sad with your story!! The concept of him ignoring a-yuan's joy to like stoically bear his responsibilities... aaaaaaaahhhhh!!!! ;_;

Thanks for your lovely comment <3