VfXercise 1 drops!

[nu_breed]

Hi again all! So here’s the extra bonus challenge for this round, VfXercise 1.

We’ll keep these pretty simple and relatively open, so people can do them on different software platforms/with different tools. The challenge for this round is as follows:

VfXercise 1: 30 second edit comprised of 10 x 3-second shots, with at least one effect (like an LUT) applied throughout (on AE, through an adjustment layer)

Lola and I both tried this one out in advance, and it was fun! (Though we did discover that AE can be even more obsessive than Premiere, a dangerous realization :)

Here’s my example.

And here’s Lola's

Stay tuned for a separate post about VfX tech, tutorials, etc. which we can build as a resource list as we go. I’m imagining these VfXercises will be a lot about experimentation and exploration, and we can share what we discover with each one.

Comments

[seekingferret]

Honestly I half-assed this, doing the effects with the DVR presets rather than even going into Fusion, and it was still world-changing in terms of how I see my vidding practice. Here's my thirty second vidlet with and without the overlaid effects and it's amazing how different they are and how narrative and emotional things that don't work at all in the original suddenly come to life with the change in coloring. I need to do more of this!

A surprising hard part for me was the straight three second clips. It almost felt like it fell in a no-man's land between pechakuchas where you know you're going to be working with the internal cuts of the source and you know you're going to be a little limited in the expressive range and that's just baked into the kind of results you'll get, vs. normal vidding where you have total control over the pacing of the clips. It was hard to do as much with internal cuts in only 3 seconds, but it felt too long to just use single shots in some places. If we keep up the same rules going forward, I expect to bend slightly rather than sticking to rigidly cutting every three seconds.


FX version: https://youtu.be/KFjUwBN5iM8

No FX version: https://youtu.be/Mp4TLw4OC1M

[absternr]

Really cool to see both versions, it does make a huge difference!

[lola]

Wow, they're so different! It's a strong edit to begin with, but the FX makes it an experience!!

and I'm sorry, I was unclear in my initial wording of the VfXercises; only the first one really needs to have the 3 second limit; after that, they're just short edits, 20-30 seconds (although people are of course free to keep the original limits if they want :D)

[unavee]

Wow, it's so helpful to see the difference. The color changes are really striking.