Vexercise 3 "Due"

[lola]

 Hi vexercise folks!! Vexercise 3s -- Rhythmic Editing -- are now "due"! If you've got something to post, make sure you put it in the Vexercise 3 post, and also remember to add it to the AO3 collection if you like. We'll post a Vexercise 3 round up soon!

How'd this rhythmic editing vexercise go? For those of you who decided to do multiple versions with different styles of rhythmic editing, which ones were most fun? Did you find yourself discovering new styles, or doubling down on your preferences?

More generally, I'm curious: how are you feeling about working with the same source/source limits? This is around the time when I get itchy to work with something new :D But I admire the consistent ppl who stick with the same source all the way through... 

Comments

[annathecrow]

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.