(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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Date: 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.