Vexercise 1 drops!

[nu_breed]

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 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!

Comments

[bluedreaming]

This was fun; it's so great to be back working with video again!

both versions embedded on Ao3 (warnings in tags)

[lola]

Oh wow I loved these soo much!! You created such *moods* with both, with the image visual combos; I love how you're bringing together footage from different groups to create such a full sense of aesthetic and theme. (this is also a concept close to my heart as I recently made a Oneus lore vampire vid :D And also I love Enhypen, so yes, you had me from the get go!)

[bluedreaming]

Thank you! I love kpop (and jpop and cpop &c) mvs and the richness of the imagery they provide to work with, so it was so exciting to work on this challenge. Thank you for mentioning your vid! Have commented on your post, and I really appreciate you sending me there!

[unavee]

Great music choices! They changed the mood so much but both fit the clips. It really felt like I was watching two different videos.

[bluedreaming]

Thank you! I got really stuck trying to find a second music choice and ended up trying for something completely different, so I'm glad that it worked!

[frankles]

Wow these are so cool. The rhythm is fantastic and both pieces of music are so different to what I assume the original videos were set to.

[bluedreaming]

Thank you! I really lucked out with the rhythm as you're absolutely right: the original mvs are definitely more pop.

[lizardjay]

Oh, working with music videos is a fantastic idea. You get so much beautiful imagery to play with! I love all the biting. The two videos feel really different also, but they're both... anxious? Something like that. I especially like the first song, that video feels like you're just wading into a pool of experience. I don't know if that makes any sense :D