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

[lola]

This was so incredibly fun and fabulous, especially version 2, which is just perfection! I loved it!
What editing program were you using again for this?

[lola]

Oh I see you were using FCP... ah, I miss FCP! This makes me wanna go back :) <3

[colls]

haha - thanks!
And Final Cut Pro!! FTW!
*cough*
I'm slow to change. I went from iMovie to FCE and only to FCP when I couldn't run FCE on the latest OS any longer.
I did really like figuring out how to do more text stuff - I have always liked opening titles with more movement and this feels like it'll get me out of the rut I was in with that. :)

[alba17]

Same. The demise of FCE was tragic for me. Kind of wandered in the wilderness awhile after that.