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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!
frankles: Hwi and Bang-won from My Country: The New Age.  Bang-won is holding a sword to Hwi's throat (Default)

[personal profile] frankles 2022-06-05 02:25 am (UTC)(link)
aaaaa how are you making me love these boys I don't even know??? This is so great.
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[personal profile] absternr 2022-06-05 05:31 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks!!! And yes I was delighted when I saw your Kesha one halfway through making my Kesha one :)
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[personal profile] airawyn 2022-06-05 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
My source is Heaven Official's Blessing. I did not know that we were supposed to have a time limit on the source, but the amount of screentime that these guys had together was pretty limited anyway.

Heaven Official's Blessing | Nan Feng/Fu Yao
frankles: Hwi and Bang-won from My Country: The New Age.  Bang-won is holding a sword to Hwi's throat (Default)

[personal profile] frankles 2022-06-05 06:07 am (UTC)(link)
I did it I made some! I'm pretty happy with them. These are My Country: The New Age, to Empty Threat (Chvrches) and Rolling in the Deep (Adele).

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39443127
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[personal profile] absternr 2022-06-05 06:44 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you! It was so fascinating to try to vid two notably different tones at the same time. (also pssst watch ultimate note it has great iron triangle)
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[personal profile] absternr 2022-06-05 07:05 am (UTC)(link)
I like these a lot! The timing works really well on both but different parts of the clips ended up getting emphasized in each, which is cool. The second one felt a lot shipper to me!
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[personal profile] extrapenguin 2022-06-05 01:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! The music choice was the hardest bit about this – the Consular storyline is my favorite, but it was a bit of a pain finding a song that worked.
lizardjay: Sakura Haruno looking skeptical (Default)

[personal profile] lizardjay 2022-06-05 05:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!! I love that song, I think it would be great for a full-length video and I was sad to cut it to one minute :D
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[personal profile] lizardjay 2022-06-05 05:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks!! I've been wanting to make a video set to that song (or any Ichika Nito song to be honest) for ages, it's so contemplative and a little sad.
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[personal profile] lizardjay 2022-06-05 05:27 pm (UTC)(link)
These are so fun! I especially like the first one, it's making me want to watch Heaven's Official Blessing now. The motion when they throw the magic orbs (or whatever they actually are) is really satisfying.
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[personal profile] lizardjay 2022-06-05 05:34 pm (UTC)(link)
I love the suspense of that long shot in the middle where one of them grabs their sword, especially in the first video where the song has been building up to that moment. Great pacing! And the timing really works out well for both songs.
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[personal profile] marah_sarie 2022-06-05 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I did some! Source is Miss Sherlock:

Both versions on AO3
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[personal profile] naye 2022-06-05 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I love these pechakuchas so much! It's such a great, easy way to get to grips with a new source. I recently watched Moon Knight and just adored the visuals. Here are my pechakuchas for the show, using the first two episodes:

How it starts to fall apart
extrapenguin: Northern lights in blue and purple above black horizon. (Default)

[personal profile] extrapenguin 2022-06-05 08:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!
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[personal profile] extrapenguin 2022-06-05 08:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! Yeah, I think it's obvious which song I did the vidding to and which one I introduced as the alternate take. I love the storyline, but it's hard to find good songs for it.
frankles: Hwi and Bang-won from My Country: The New Age.  Bang-won is holding a sword to Hwi's throat (Default)

[personal profile] frankles 2022-06-05 09:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you! I worked a long time on the sword pull and the fight with the sticks haha, I’m glad it worked.
Edited 2022-06-05 21:19 (UTC)
frankles: Hwi and Bang-won from My Country: The New Age.  Bang-won is holding a sword to Hwi's throat (Default)

[personal profile] frankles 2022-06-05 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
These are both so good! I love how you’ve used the strings in the second one in particular.
frankles: Hwi and Bang-won from My Country: The New Age.  Bang-won is holding a sword to Hwi's throat (Default)

[personal profile] frankles 2022-06-05 09:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh shit these are fantastic. Great choice of clips, both for the internal movement in them and for how gorgeous they are. I love these.

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