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

[brokenmnemonic]

I'm a huge fan of Ever After, for various reasons - and it was handily available on my PC, because it's one of the sources used for the group vidding workshop at the moment ;)

A part of me wants to go back and tweak all of the clips to make the visual and audio beats align more closely, but I was surprised at how many kind of line up already. I'm not sure I've ever made a Sparkle Motion dance party vid, though - what are the requirements? I'm kind of intrigued by the idea of getting to pelt the prince with more apples...

[bonibaru]

The requirements are: you can dance to it :D

[brokenmnemonic]

You've got me wondering now if I've ever made anything that might qualify, that I could use as an example to work from. Would something like this be suitable for dancing to? (I really, really have never danced, and when I worked events it was in the headbanger section, so I have very little sense of judgement on these things.)

[bonibaru]

Yes, this 100% qualifies as a dance party vid if I was putting one together!

Fanworks has their 2019 show programming online & streaming for free right now, so if you want to see what other people have done, you only need to create a free membership. There's an example here too by Sparkle Motion https://fanworkscon.com/events/

This is one I did for a recent con https://archiveofourown.org/works/22841431