vexercises | Vexercise 1 drops!

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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!

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From:

seekingferret

A couple little MCU dance vidlets

Vexercise 1A- Golden Goat: https://youtu.be/F-wsfdUHscQ

Vexercise 1B - Electricity: https://youtu.be/WmgJ43FYRDE

From:

bluedreaming

"from your chosen source text" - does this mean the same episode of something, or the same show? The same film, or same series of films? If I'm using a music video, does it mean only the music video, or the mv and its trailers, or that "era" of a group?

From:

seasaltmemories_14

Got really into this and am proud to see my growth from the last time I did a pechakucha, have robots and existential angst with Nier Automata!

I Just Wanted You To ********: https://youtu.be/OTinm6hpvMQ
Self-Indulgent Self-Destruction: https://youtu.be/Brru_v621zw

From:

bluedreaming

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

both versions embedded on Ao3 (warnings in tags)

From:

nu_breed

I can never stick to two of these, I just have too much fun playing around with music.

Pechakuchas x 3 (on AO3)

From:

justanorthernlight

This was an interesting exercise!

My source text was Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith, so there is a minor content warning for a shot of Order 66

Vexercise 1a: Little Dark Age https://vimeo.com/715575503
Vexercise 1b: This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race https://vimeo.com/715576161

From:

alba17

Here are my two, using Our Flag Means Death. On AO3

I should add that I totally forgot to use only four episodes. Oops! Next time.

Edited Date: 2022-05-31 11:43 pm (UTC)

From:

extrapenguin

My attempt to vid with Cinelerra fell through when I couldn't install one of the packages it depended on. *g* Ah well. Back to Kdenlive...

This year I've decided to use the various SWTOR screen recordings I've made over the past few months as my source! For the first set I used the first chapter of the Jedi Consular storyline:
pechakucha 2 ways

From:

nu_breed

I was feeling very crappy yesterday so I made more Pechakuchas - this time for Coffee Friends which is the reality show one of my blorbos from My Country: The New Age is in (which I highly recommend if you love feel-good reality shows that are actualfax coffee shop AUs)

Yang Se-jong is a hyung magnet

Edited Date: 2022-06-01 08:58 pm (UTC)

From:

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!

From:

trickybonmot

Ahhh I enjoyed this one! I may have cheated the timing a tiny bit...and I also screwed around with timing a...lot. Maybe too much. I had fun though.

v1 https://youtu.be/-1lVcllDejY (Time Machine by Cuco)
v2 https://youtu.be/L-GooFQy7-w (Time Machine by The Ballet)

Source is the Untamed, mostly ep 33.
It's about the regret...

From:

lola

Haha for once I'm not responding to my own post! :D

My source is the Oneus Do It series, combined with the Oneus I Will Debut reality web show where we followed them (and Onewe) pre-debut, plus some Oneus Diary (which chronicles their more recent tours).

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39408324

These ones put up a fight; I think I'm not used to working with behind the scenes footage like this, and it made it especially hard with the six second rule to make it feel like there was enough movement. Maybe there are less internal cuts in behind the scenes footage? I ended up using effects to give it more of a sense of dynamism. In the end I had a lot of fun with this! (Also watching oodles of Oneus Do It was just what the doctor ordered.)

From:

absternr

This was a lot of fun! I used Ultimate Note (specifically my side ship, heihua) and I cheated a little but just on one cut in the middle :)

Both vids are here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/39413298

From:

I've been curious about this vexercise for a while so...

Both are on this AO3 post (fandom The King: Eternal Monarch, Prime Minister Koo focus): https://archiveofourown.org/works/39432453

Edited Date: 2022-06-04 07:13 pm (UTC)

From:

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

From:

frankles

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

From:

marah_sarie

I did some! Source is Miss Sherlock:

Both versions on AO3

From:

naye

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

From:

valoise

This was a lot of fun. Unsurprisingly, during the process I found the clips took me in an unplanned direction, but that just how creative work goes.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39513657

Or on youtube:
https://youtu.be/S0GHbJEl0uk
https://youtu.be/mPXD6QqkrQ0

Edited Date: 2022-06-08 12:24 pm (UTC)

From:

annathecrow

I made it! Hurts like hell, two Star Wars: The Phantom Menace vidlets focused on Shmi Skywalker.

This was difficult in different ways than I expected! I thought I wouldn't have enough material and that I would struggle with the editing process (I haven't edited video in years, and this is my first time using DaVinci Resolve), but instead I fought the most with the audio. It's hard to get exactly 1 minute of a song that doesn't end awkwardly. I really wish I could have trimmed some time off the clips, or added a title screen to have the sound fade over, or something.

From:

lola

One more in, just before the deadline! I decided to use the pechakucha structure as an opportunity to learn the tool twixtor, which is a Premiere and AE add in (expensive but there are ways, DM me if you'd like to know ;) that allows you to have really smooth slo mo. I found it tricky to totally control the timing within the longer clips demanded by the pechakucha, but it was still fun and it seems like a really cool tool.

visual source: Hwanwoong (of Oneus) dance cover videos
audio source: DPR Ian & La Sserafim

https://archiveofourown.org/works/39538473

From:

aurumcalendula

Here's mine for Legend of Yunze!

My Soul Awaits & On The Inside

From:

nu_breed

Yet another set from me! I'm enjoying having new (old) things to vid!

These are for Duel, a sci-fi thriller starring one of my MCTNA boys (in multiple roles!)

From:

unavee

I didn't have a firm idea of how I wanted these to turn out so I found this challenging, but it was fun! My main goal was just to learn the basics of using Davinci Resolve and I did manage that.

These are for Seventeen (the performance unit):
Vexercise 1A
Vexercise 1B

From:

inimitablereel

I got really excited about the idea of doing this exercise for the untamed yi city arc and then later in the week decided to do a second set for a canon I thought I might actually do for other vexercises (which was also way faster because it's actually a 2 hour movie instead of like 8 episodes of tv). This was so much fun!

Yi city ones

Time raiders ones