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nu_breed ([personal profile] nu_breed) wrote in [community profile] vexercises2022-05-29 10:09 pm

Vexercise 1 drops!

Hi all!!! Here we go, the first vexercise of summer 2022! Welcome to Vexercisers old & new!

For this first vexercise, we decided to keep it simple and stay with the original version of the vexercise. We've found that this vidding pechakucha variation remains a terrific exercise for people new to vidding to learn the ropes of editing, and for more experienced editors to try out new media sources, new ideas, or to embrace the limitations and to see what you can do within them.

So many amazing and inspiring videos have come out of Pechakuchas. We have a playlist of them here that [personal profile] bonibaru put together, plus others that were not posted to YouTube at the
Vexercise collection on A03

Here are the instructions/guidelines for this first vexercise:

**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!]

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 original videographic pechakucha’s here and a more vidlike one Lola made here!

Stay tuned for a post about the bonus VfXercise (special effects oriented challenge) for this round and a breakdown of each vexercise and the "due" dates should you wish to get a head start!

If you have any questions about this vexercise, either before you start or as you get going, feel free to post them here!

This vexercise will be "due" in two weeks, so June 11.

Also, please feel free to post your work to the Vexercise AO3 collection!
lola: wow she's going super crazy (Default)

[personal profile] lola 2022-06-12 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
grumble grumble bang-won got in there with two more pechakuchas
running: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLO-F1tnPS4
copycat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2YCIG3C_oA
i have very mixed feelings about how he wormed his way into my heart. 6 seconds at a time.
colls: (SW Rey Finn Poe)

[personal profile] colls 2022-06-12 08:22 pm (UTC)(link)
I heard there was a time warp or this was extended to today or something like that, so I decided to sneak in my first vexercise....

Rogue One
https://archiveofourown.org/works/39603213

zakarisz: Red Sonja watching shit burn down (red sonja)

[personal profile] zakarisz 2022-06-13 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Getting 3 Red Sonja vidlets in after the deadline. I'm using Vidukon as my late excuse.

I may have made things needlessly difficult for myself by choosing to do a motion comic.

content warning for cartoon blood, violence, decapitations

Bone Chain
https://youtu.be/Cl3b0fUGKoM

Klubba's Reveille
https://youtu.be/RCn3Tl3yyx0

Fingertips 21
https://youtu.be/bs0A0qp3_lE
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Roswell New Mexico - Max/Liz

[personal profile] impala_chick 2022-07-12 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
Holy moly, I did it! DaVinci Resolve is awesome. I really appreciated the advice about sticking with one source, because focusing on one episode for this kept me from being overwhelmed. And I also love the one minute time limit. The most difficult part was sticking to 6 seconds a clip.

So here are my two vids, using Roswell New Mexico season three episode nine clips: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40247895
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Re: Roswell New Mexico - Max/Liz

[personal profile] impala_chick 2022-07-30 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you :)

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