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

[thatyourefuse]

This was so much fun. Oh my God.

I might or might not have chosen to go Twin Peaks regardless -- it is, shall we say, a remarkably conducive source for experimental video editing -- but in fact I'd been vaguely bunnied for a Donna-vid to the first song for ages, despite the fact that the beat (if you can call it that) is really not suited to my usual style of editing. I chose a song from The Return for my second version, which ended up working really well...

v.1: Chopsticks
v.2: American Woman

... and then I was so fascinated by the examples on the Videographic Essay site that I decided to give the original source-audio version a try, and -- I can have little a overachievement. As a treat.

v.3: Faster and Faster
v.4: Nowhere Fast

I'm pretty sure "Nowhere Fast" is just straight-up the best one (and I want it on the record that I edited this to "Chopsticks" and then literally did not adjust the clip order or timing at all when selecting and switching out the audio tracks).

I am so, so tempted to immediately do a second set using completely different source, because I so want to try something with more internal cuts.

[bonibaru]

Hi! Did you add to the AO3 collection and then did they disappear? I'm trying to figure out if I'm glitching or if somewhere else is or if you did something on purpose, LOL.

[thatyourefuse]

As far as I can tell I successfully posted to the Ao3 collection and the embeds look okay in Firefox. What exactly is glitchy on your end?

[bonibaru]

WAIT NEVER MIND I JUST DISCOVERED CHAPTERS (facepalm)

[thatyourefuse]

Hee! No worries. I'm just glad there wasn't anything weird going on with the embeds.

[lola]

Okay, wow wow wow I am totally overcome by these. And I've only watched the vidding ones so far (though I'm so thrilled that you're doing the videographic ones too!!)
These were amazing and awoke all my slumbering Donna/Laura and Twin Peaks feels. The first one works and *hurt* so beautifully -- getting at that relationship between Donna & Laura that's at the heart of the show but can kinda get lost midst all the other crazy. And the second one *brought* all the other crazy to the Laura/Donna relationship, showing how it's connected, bringing the dark weirdness to the sweeter images of loss and Donna's mourning journey. WOW they both worked so well!
Off to watch the videographic ones!!

[lola]

oh oh and somehow I missed that it was a song from the return for the second version... but that was literally what I was thinking (subconscious knowledge I guess?) that the second one brought the feel of The Return to the original series.

[thatyourefuse]

eeeeee! Thank you! This is just... such a good fandom to do this in, omg (and I have some Deep Thoughts about how thus far the exercise formats are really pushing me to stop trying to make EVERYTHING a complete narrative arc, which is something I've struggled with before, but I don't know if that's going to be articulated today).

[lola]

Okay, the videographic ones are amazing also, uncannily so!! They're both so perfectly timed that it's creeping me out. Faster and Faster gave me serious chills.

[thatyourefuse]

:D :D :D

I was SUPER inspired by the ones on the Videographic Essay site (especially the Stepford Wives example) and like -- I have kind of an unreasonable bias against using source audio in vids? so this is a REALLY interesting experiment.