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

[airawyn]

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

[lizardjay]

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.

[naye]

Ahh I really like the motion in the choice of clips together! My favorite of the two versions is the first, for being more upbeat?

[valoise]

Don’t know this source at all but I love how the same clips can tell either a story of conflict or one of longing with the change of music

[lola]

Okay but Bad Blood for those two is genius!?? That version is utterly hilarious. And it's fascinating how the second one with Depeche Mode creates such a different mood--would be interesting to see what a full serious video for them might look like! These were great!