Checking in: Haikus, Pechakuchas, Tech?

[lola]

Hello summer school vexercisers!! How’s it going with the first vexercise? Did you decide to try the haikus, pechakuchas, both? If you did the haikus, how do you feel about the short length and the particular 5/7/5 second structure? If you’re doing the pechakuchas, how did you feel about the two different versions? Which version did you like best of the two you made, and why? And if you’ve done both haikus and pechakuchas, how do they compare?

I’ll admit, I’m kind of dying to hear about the haikus especially, and the difference in experience between haikus and pechakuchas, since we’re the first group taking them from theory to practice pretty much, and I do feel like they have a pretty different flow (both creating them and then the final product) than the pechakuchas.  

Also, let’s have a convo about tech! What editing programs are you using? What computers/devices are you using, for that matter? Does anyone have questions about how to get source etc., or how to do certain steps of the process?

Hope you’re having fun vidding/vexercising!

Comments

[seasaltmemories_14]

I mentioned this a bit when posting mine, but I guess if I had to explain things, I feel pechakuchas and haikus use similar structures to teach very different lessons

With pechakuchas I feel you have to commit to the clips you use bc they are so long, and you only get ten of them, so for me it really made me think about internal cuts/sync, rather than hit every beat or line, I kinda had to pick my battles instead, especially bc it had to fit with a second set of audio, still I think those limitations are great for teaching ppl how to edit, in that it really reveals what you value from a vid and kinda forces you to produce something rather than sweat out the details

With haikus, the length is a bit more awkward, like caramarie said, 27 seconds isn't a lot of time to really develop an idea, and even when I tried doubling my length to 54 seconds, it seemed harder to fudge things so I could get all the audio I wanted (although that could just be chalked up to my music tastes)

They way I got around this was paying attention to bpm and honing in on just one idea (helped my audio was the outro of a song and the same line repeated again and again) the further I got in, I also felt my editing style shifted in that what I valued most in a clip wasn't necessary what it showed, but more how I could link it to the next clip, one second isn't a lot of time to process new info, and overall I found myself focused a lot on rhythmic editing, and in the end I think it pushed my style in really cool and interesting direction

TLDR: I feel like pechakuchas are really good for learning the basics of editing/figuring out your style, the haikus felt like they required a higher level of skill but were great specifically in honing my rhythmic editing

[salamandras]

I agree! I was going to add my experience separately, but you summed it up so well I'll just point to yours and nod vigorously.

[nu_breed]

These are all great points!