annathecrow: screenshot from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Padmé pouting. Text overlay: "Well I don’t approve!” (sw: do not approve)
annathecrow ([personal profile] annathecrow) wrote in [community profile] vexercises 2022-07-10 03:15 pm (UTC)

This exercise was a nightmare.

(Have I been waiting for this post to have a chance to complain? Umm...)

I was stuck for almost the whole two weeks. I ran out of immediate ideas, I got intimidated by the many different sub-assignments/extra credits, I started overthinking everything horribly. I watched the examples and the video about syncopated rhythm, and arrived to the conclusion that I don't hear squat. I didn't have a song, I didn't have a topic, I had no idea what to do. I eventually figured a way out of this I'm fairly happy with the result, but god. That was an ordeal.

This is all very ironic because whenever I edit video with a backing track, I always cut by rhythm. Maybe that made this all worse...? Like when someone asks you how you do a physical movement and you lose all ability to do it, lol.

I am retroactively very thankful that I had an exciting idea for each of the first two exercises. I can't imagine going through this on the first vid. I'd probably quit and that'd be it.

All that said, the actual vidding process was wonderful. Cutting long, panoramic wide-angle shots on a very lyric instrumental song... *chef's kiss*.

As for the source limits: oops XD I'm still doing Star Wars, but I started with only Phantom Menace and this vid was the prequels, the original trilogy, The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett. I think I'm not ready for hard limits yet.


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