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

[gwenfrankenstien]

The strict rules helped me break through a monster of a vidding block, so thank you!

Here are my two pikachus https://archiveofourown.org/works/23216593

[lola]

Oh, I love these!! They're so evocative!! And they really have such different feels... it's crazy it doesn't even feel like the same footage!

I really need to watch that movie :)

and yay for breaking through vidding block!!!

[jinkyo]

These two vids are getting into more familiar territory for me. I haven't seen the Velvet Goldmine, but I recognize the lives in the footage and I do know the songs. On this watch, each of the songs guided my understanding and literally shifted my imaged time by a decade.

Teenage Dream "felt" like the mid 70s, with glam rock giving way to disco and punk. Like, the last dying gasp of a way of life. And a grimy way of life at that. The older men seemed of ill repute, the young flesh seemed like an exchange for money, and everyone looked like they were on drugs. This felt like an amazingly detailed character study of a particular time and place.

Half a Person - believe it or not, for a Smiths song, read much more hopeful. I think I honed in more on the Christian Bale character like this was a 1st person story of exploration, a young man trying to find his place.

"I booked myself into the YWCA, I like it here can I stay" From his covert jacket buttoning, the disapproving looks from the elders, then that glorious, face-made up grin - that was a beautiful sequence.

[gwenfrankenstien]

Wow, so happy that I was able to get all that across in a minute of visuals! The movie actually uses adult Christian Bale in the 80s as a framing narrative, I'd like to do a full-length vid to Half A Person eventually so I can explore that character more.