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

[the_wavesinger]

Three vids for The Lord of the Rings! Pun intended.

original vid
lyric video
new video

a playlist of all of the vids

The last video is definitely ignoring instructions a whole lot, haha, but I'm proud of how these turned out thematically.

(Kdenlive is annoying for text--I ended up doing most of the text in GIMP and importing images to Kdenlive. I should probably find the time to learn how to use Resolve.)

[lola]

Ahhh these are fabulous!! I love the font (and that flickering effect you used) in the second one & the overall aesthetics. And the third one -- that's one of the best videos I've seen made for the 3rd bit of this challenge!
But yes, Resolve is definitely worth the time and pretty intuitive to boot!

[the_wavesinger]

Thank you very much! I did debate the flickering but kept it in in the end--I'm glad you liked it.

(Once I get a bit of free time I will be attempting to learn Resolve.)

[colls]

Your 3rd fit works incredibly well! Nicely done

[the_wavesinger]

Thank you. The third vid is not strictly within the rules of the challenge, but I really wanted a vid that was somewhat different thematically but where the text and clips still made sense; I'm glad it worked for you!

[alba17]

These are really beautiful. Enjoyed very much.

[the_wavesinger]

Thanks!

[lizardjay]

These are really nice! The text and the font looks so classy.

[the_wavesinger]

Thank you!