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

[lizardjay]

Mine are here! I'm using the Power arc from Naruto. https://lizardjay.dreamwidth.org/4772.html

The process of making these was way more fun than I expected; I think it's due to the specificity of the rules, it really takes a lot of the paralyzing choices away and just makes you make something. It doesn't have to be perfect!

[absternr]

I really like both of these!! Sticking to the 6 seconds seems even tougher with animation than live action since there's often less internal movement to work with, but you kept it so visually interesting!

[lizardjay]

Thank you!! I haven't vidded with live action before but that makes a lot of sense, I'm often jealous of the visual interest you can get with it.

[frankles]

Oh wow that second one is great, the mood you capture with that music choice is so cool.

[lizardjay]

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.

[nu_breed]

Oh man I LOVE the first one, it gave me all the feels and I only very tangentially know this source!

[lizardjay]

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

[naye]

Ooh, really neat how much it feels like a completely different genre than fight shounen this way!

[lizardjay]

Yeah, it was fun to play around with that!

[lola]

Ahh it's wild how different these two are; the first one has such intense build and great audiovisual matching; the second one is like an aesthetic experience, turning the horror into something more like an out of body experience, if that makes any sense. They were both terrific! And yes, the pechakucha framework can be so freeing -- it's great if you're feeling vidder's block, I've found!

[lizardjay]

Thank you! That's exactly what I was going for so I'm happy it came through. (Well, I can only really take the credit for the first one... I dropped the second song on there just to test it out and it just worked on its own without any tweaking.)

[valoise]

I like these a lot, especially the second

[lizardjay]

Thank you :D