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

[alba17]

Amazingly, I actually completed this. Probably because the base video came together really fast.
All 3 in this post: https://archiveofourown.org/works/40655838

[colls]

The music buildup on the 3rd worked so well with the clips and lyrics - especially at the 'true north' and 'fighting for' bits. If I hadn't known the exercise, I would've thought that was the inspiration and original! Nice!

[lizardjay]

Those were really nice and sweet! Different moods, but the instrumental fit everything perfectly.