Vexercise 2 (Visual Matching) drops!

[nu_breed]

Please let us know in the comments of any other vids you would suggest as examples of motion/graphic matching!Hi all! Firstly, thank you for all your amazing Pechakuchas for Vexercise 1! Lola and I have been so thrilled with the engagement and creativity we’ve been seeing, not to mention the wide range of fandoms represented! So great 😀

And of course there is no “final” due date so if you feel like you are as bitten by the Pechakuchas bug as we are, please feel free to keep posting more! And don’t forget to add them to the Vexercises collection on AO3 (if you are posting there, that is).

Now on to Vexercise 2!

Your task for this one is to produce a one minute video edit (with an audio track of your own choosing) on your selected source using match-on-action and/or graphic matches as your primary editing logics. The motion of each shot should seem to continue into motion in the following shot and/or connect through images that are similar to the eye. 

Here's a really helpful video on different types of match cuts (with lots of helpful Sherlock examples!) This video is about match cuts in cinema and TV, but it's really cool how we can adapt these techniques to vidding/fan video editing. 

And here are some vids that use visual continuity, match on action, and graphic matching (feel free to rec others in the comments!)

General note: most of these vids contain a bunch of visual triggers (immersive motion/kinetic editing as well as light flashes) and timestamping every potential trigger in the below is a massive job so please bear in mind if you are sensitive to these types of visual triggers.

Nothing Is Safe (thuviaptarth, Watchmen) (please heed content notes)

Motionography 2012 (23Lubriderm, Remix Culture)

Multifandom Mashup 2019 (for All the Graphic Matches including My Country: The New Age! \o/) 

Starships (bironic, multifandom)

Juice (sisabet, Disney villainesses)

Move Your Body (ohvienna, Xena)

if there’s hope, then let’s move (cescedes, 陈情令 | The Untamed)

Please let us know in the comments of any other vids you would suggest as examples of motion/graphic matching!

Comments

[nu_breed]

Here's my offering for Vexercise 2: Castles.

[lizardjay]

The whole swords section was so good!

[naye]

This felt so much shorter than a minute! And I am so, so intrigued by this source - where do you recommend watching it?

[pi]

This is so delightful! The matching makes this feel very sharp/clean visually in a really engaging way. I have all the feels, but I also with the matching and the sword section feel like I'm watching them dance with each other. The romance and the pain <3 This minute is a gem I will cherish!

[valoise]

Nice action, like everyone's already said, I like good swordplay

[trickybonmot]

Beautiful!

[annathecrow]

Hi, just a heads up, it looks like the links to the vid examples are all broken (incorrectly "fixed" quotes).

[nu_breed]

Thanks so much for letting us know - all fixed now.

[extrapenguin]

I continued with my SWTOR Jedi Consular journey, this time restricting myself to footage I had of Tython. This turned out to be a bit of a mistake, as ... there was not that much motion to match. *g* I succumbed to the sunk cost fallacy, did my best with graphical matches and intentional de-matches, and then added some extra pizzazz in the form of a charcoal filter (with the original footage on top with Screen blend mode). If nothing else, the effect looks fine?

Where We Belong

[colls]

I haven't tried to tackle video game footage, so anytime I see it done I'm impressed. And I can see where you have some motion flowing from one clip to another - if that helps at all ;)
The comic filter effect gives it a whole other artistic quality that I find intriguing!

[unavee]

Oh wow, the filter effect throughout gave it an interesting feeling. I think the first few graphical matches were especially effective.

[nu_breed]

Oh man the filter is SUCH a great choice! It really helps the shots flow.

[pi]

I went off on a slightly different tack on this Vexercise because I got interested in camera motion so I structured this more around matching that movement rather than movement/action of things within the frame though still trying to balance matching composition of the visual as well as matching movement of the camera. The outcome is something entirely aesthetic and very long shots, but I like the dreamy ethereal mood it produces: https://archiveofourown.org/works/39727803

[lizardjay]

Oh I really like matching the camera!! Very dreamy, very classy.

[lizardjay]

Mine is here: Nothing Fades Like The Light

[naye]

Ooh, I like the matching of shapes as well as motion in this.

[naye]

For a source I can absolutely not do justice - it's so gorgeous, and so moving, and so funny. (As expected when directed by Taika Waititi!) They say home is the place where your heart is - Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Using match on action & graphic matching, except for where I wanted to give an impression of breaking off and starting over. (Hopefully it worked! I don't know. This actually does slightly more subtle matching than when I go all out, but I ended up wanting to squeeze some particular imagery/themes in there.)

[nu_breed]

It's SO stunning!

[valoise]

My second exercise: I'm Walkin'

[nu_breed]

K9!!! I loved the movement in this a lot.

[pi]

I have made a second Vexercise 2 offering this one more in the style of the vexercise (vs. my previous TKEM camera movement focused one).

So have some forward momentum pondering for My Country: The New Age here

[lizardjay]

This is really nice, it doesn't feel like it's nearly as long as it is! I really like how you go back and forth so much between the same things, it feels like that has a lot of narrative meaning (though since I haven't watched the canon I don't know what that meaning might be). And that first footstep is so good.

[marah_sarie]

I did it! I tried to focus on matching clips with similar internal motion, for the most part.

On AO3: [Vexercise 2] Merry Go Round

[lizardjay]

This is lovely! It finally made matching on repeated actions make sense to me. I really struggled with understanding that myself but you made it really natural and flowing.

[seasaltmemories_14]

Less cohesive than I would have like, but I had fun experimenting

Cops and Robbers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gquYrkgC4Ts

[nu_breed]

Wow this source is gorgeous! The momentum in this is really affective. And I’m glad you had fun, that’s the important part :D

[trickybonmot]

I just wanted to rec this vid: If there's hope then let's move (cescedes, the Untamed)

[nu_breed]

Oh thank you, this is stunning!

[bluedreaming]

I really struggled with my editing program (spent over a week working on the first 25 seconds) and finally realized I was using it entirely wrong, so that was both discouraging and also very valuable. Started over and finished the next evening; I maybe would have been more particular about the cuts (I'm still not sure if I have the hang of this?) but I was too happy to be done. A great exercise!

redder, a whole glass (burn me in the dust) (on Ao3)
ENHYPHEN, content notes on post (vampires)

[trickybonmot]

Here's mine!

Lan Wangji - Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

I made my own edit of the song which was...not part of the assignment ~sweatdrop~

[aurumcalendula]

I made two versions again since I couldn't decide which music I liked better: Vexercise 2: Fivefold & Theory of Disillusion (Legend of Yunze).

[annathecrow]

My vid: Best Day Of My Life (Star Wars Prequels). Not every single cut in this is a visual match cut, but I did try!

This exercise was great. Visual continuity isn't something I've given much thought before, I really think I've learned something here.

...well, one thing I've learned is that I'm slightly neurotic about audio editing. The last second of that vid was more frustrating than the whole rest of it.

Goal for the next exercise: start earlier than the beginning of the second week, ffs.

[lizardjay]

Oh god that ending...

This is really good! Your matching and flow is great and I like all your jokes :D

[justanorthernlight]

Here's mine, please note the content/trigger warnings in the tags: (Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith) I swore I'd never let her go.

I'm not super happy with how this one turned out, but there are at least a couple of good match cuts in there I think.