Vexercise 4 Drops: Lyrical Play

[lola]

 
Hi all! It's time for Vexercise 4 (wow, time flies!) This one is focused on working with incorporating lyrics conceptually and as text. (For those of you who did the vfxercise 3 on typography, you got a little taste/head start on this one!) Here are the details: 

Lyrical play/no lyrics (3 versions):

Produce a 1 minute video edit from your selected source, in which lyrical interpretation guides your shot choice. You could interpret the lyrics literally or metaphorically/suggestively. Once you have completed this video, choose selected lyrics to incorporate creatively as text within the video. Then make a version of this video with the text, but substituting the original audio with a different piece of music that has no lyrics.

Advanced Version: Lyrical Play with Key Frames & Masking

Follow the guidelines for the OG version, but try using key frames for moving text or text masking.

Keyframing in Da Vinci Resolve
Keyframing and masking in Premiere Pro

And here are some useful resources & tutorials: 

 

Easiest Cinematic Title Minimal & Clean
How to place video within text
Add text behind a moving object
Typewriter effect
How to Make a Lyric Video
Inspirations for typography (a whole playlist!)

 

 

Comments

[extrapenguin]

I am interrupting the usual schedule of SWTOR because I had a terrible, terrible idea. And terrible ideas must be shared. So! Star Wars Prequel Trilogy time it is. I also think it works better if viewed in reverse order:

instrumental music
text, original music
original vid

(Side note: I found an instrumental that had the same BPM as my original, which I think worked really well. The original was also cut in a more "leave space for text" fashion so I think it's a bit blah, while the betexted one has some direly necessary pizzazz.)

Also, Blender is amazing for text.

[colls]

That evolution was great!
And I'm LOL'ing at your terrible, terrible (wonderful) idea :D :D

[extrapenguin]

Thank you! And yes, sometimes the worst ideas are the best.

[absternr]

I only realized what your original song was once it hit the chorus, it's perfect. (Really nice work with the text too!)

[extrapenguin]

I'm really glad you got the song! And yes, when I got the idea, I absolutely had to do it.

[lizardjay]

It's a BEAUTIFUL idea :D

I love all the different animations and movements you had for the text.

[extrapenguin]

Thank you! I wanted to make something that was fun, above all, to go with the song, so: maximalism on the text animations.