Vexercise 1 Check-in!

[nu_breed]

Hi all! One week in--how are your pechakuchas going?

There have been so many posted already, so awesome!!! Lola and I are both super thrilled that you are all so engaged and inspired :D

For those of you that have already posted, what was the experience like? How did you go through the process of narrowing down your visual source, choosing your clips, choosing your music? Were there any tech issues or other challenges you ran into?

For those of you who haven't yet started where are you at with it? Do you have some things you're still trying to decide on--like your focus, your source, etc? Let us know, maybe we can help you figure it out!

Comments

[mythicmistress]

This is not going as well as I'd hoped- I should probably choose different media (I've been trying to work with the movie Megamind, but finding two pieces of music for the same edit is proving very difficult for me).

It doesn't help that I'm still very new to vidding due to general lack of motivation to do basically anything fannish and having been discouraged by my first attempt at a vid being eaten by YouTube's copyright bots within hours of uploading it.

[aurumcalendula]

I don't think I consciously realized how long six seconds is until I started on this vexercise. I haven't made much useful process on the vexercise yet, but I have make a vidlet as a result of procrastinating on it. I'm going to see if using a different source helps.

[frankles]

I found that while you can do really precise things on particular beats/lyrics/musical moments, the format doesn't allow as much precision as I was hoping - by getting one thing perfect I might end up with bits of clips I don't want included. It was fun to work within the limits but this probably means I'll enjoy proper vidding too!

[valoise]

This year I've decided to focus on The Key to Time story line from the 1978 season of Doctor Who. I've got a rough draft of the first exercise done, but I definite need to tweak it, maybe replace or move around the clips. Also found a song for the second version of the exercise. Some tentative ideas for a couple of the later exercises, too, but I just need to get this first one done

[salamandras]

I've changed the source a few times in my head, and may again, but currently have a roughed out idea for both Guardian and Community, and less well formed ideas for Hot Fuzz. I'm doing more planning on paper before clipping, and making more of an effort to include internal cuts than I did last time, and may go with similar visuals in the clips instead of following or building a story, and I at least feel more confident this time.

I do have a question about where to get Handbrake - the reviews I've read (from CNET, from 6 years ago) mention malware on it from that source, which made me uncomfortable continuing. Is there a recommended source to download Handbrake? I assume Handbrake's website would be best, but I wanted to check based on those ancient reviews, and I also have Windows 8... https://handbrake.fr/downloads.php

[alba17]

I don't think mine came out that well. 🤷‍♀️ I chose my source based on it being one of the sources I had an idea for and I feel pretty fannish about it. I just used the song from my idea. For the 2nd one, I wanted to see how it would come out with music of the period in which the show is set and I thought it was an interesting experiment.

I’m not sure what I could have done differently to make it work better. Perhaps a song with less of a beat? Clips with more action? Not sure.

[bluedreaming]

I was expecting the exercise to be pretty hard, so I was pleasantly surprised that the footage mostly came together. I think it also helped that I had a music selection already made, and could shape it to that. The first two segments I put together serendipitously had motion that moved beautifully between them, so that was really encouraging.

What I had trouble with was that I'd not read the instructions properly, and so only realized that I needed two music versions when the first was done. A reminder to read the instructions properly! Six seconds is also a pretty long time, especially for music video footage, so that was a little limiting in what I was able to put together, and I couldn't quite keep to a 100% red palette. However, on the flip-side, all the quick cuts of music videos meant that each six second segment really feels like a lot more, especially for music videos with scene changes.

My biggest struggle is with my computer, as even shotcut seems to maybe be a little resource-intensive for it. I did have a browser open at the time, thought most of the tabs were "off" using auto-discard, so I'm hoping that having only shotcut open will be enough of an edge to allow me to work with more cuts in later exercises.

I need to catch up on watching all the pechakuchas that have already been posted; so exciting!