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

[marah_sarie]

Got there in the end!

[Vexercise 4] - This Is What You Up Against

Incorporating text is a challenge in itself, it felt like -- it really impacted on how I chose clips, because I needed to think about how the lyrics might fit on the screen. So I did focus more on visuals than interpretation for the lyrics (and I didn't even bother with a "clean" version of the original song). I was also really inspired by caramarie's The More We Change from the original round of Vexercises, and wanted to try for something where the second song gives a very different feel to the original lyrics, so I hope that came through!

[absternr]

I *love* these, wow. The masking on the text is so good!

[lola]

Ahhhh these are fabulous!! The first one especially is *chef's kiss* but the second one works really well too!
This brought back all my Miss Sherlock feels. <3

[alba17]

These are really great. I love the text one, works really well. The orchestral piece works so well too. Very different mood but it totally works with the text and the clips.

[colls]

These are so fun! I enjoyed Miss Sherlock <33#

[lizardjay]

The high energy of these is SO good. And the mood change as well! Love the masking effect :D