Vexercise 4 Check-in!

[nu_breed]

Hello all! Happy Saturday/Sunday! How are you going with your lyrical play vexercise?

If you've started already (or finished), are there things you're finding challenging? Satisfying? Both at once?

I have barely started mine as I'm sick with a cold and trying to get my vids ready to submit to Fanworks Con before the deadline on Monday, but after that I'm keen to get back to it!

Let us know if you're stuck and not quite sure how to start and if you feel up to sharing your ideas/approach maybe we can all help brainstorm! Equally if you really don't know where to start let us know and maybe we can figure it out together!

Comments

[marah_sarie]

I'm also behind on mine because I was focussing on finishing my fanworks premiere, but that's submitted now, at least! I spent a *long* time yesterday looking for songs, and no luck yet (what's more difficult than trying to find a vid song? trying to find *two* vid songs!)

I do think the "and then substitute the original song for an instrumental song" part of the exercise is leading me to approach this differently than if the exercise were entirely about typography. (Like, it's making me think a lot more about, what do these lyrics say, and what *could* they say if they had to stand on their own? And I think otherwise it'd be more about, could I make these lyrics look cool on screen.) So that's where I'm getting stuck and overthinking things at this point!

[lola]

Yes that last version is the trickiest, and if it's totally holding you up you can just skip it, of course! (The rules are all made to be broken in the vexercises!) But I do think it's interesting to think about the words on their own and how they would read in a new context... interesting, but not necessary, and not worth totally freezing the creative process!
(sorry for the late reply!)

[annathecrow]

...I suspect I will be doing this one last-minute again. *grimaces* I have been away from town for most of the week, so I haven't even picked a song yet. I... did have an idea before I left, I think? if I only remembered what it was!

(Also, Battleship has started, which. Oh boy. Maybe I can have my vex vid count for it somehow?)

[lola]

Okay, wow, Battleship looks intense! I hadn't heard of that... but what a cool idea!

[annathecrow]

it is. So intense. XD SO MANY TABLES. But I highly recommend it, it's a lot of fun. (Even for such a slow creator as me!)

[trickybonmot]

I've started mine with a song that I've wanted to vid for a long time, but only about the first two verses really make sense for the characters I have in mind, soooo...perfect for a 1 min vid! I ended up editing out the intro and a few loops of instrumental vamping to tighten it up.

I'm having a couple challenges. One is that my lyrics are really kind of abstract, so even though I feel like they give me a vision, it can be hard to find shots that fit.

Second, following the lyrics seems to create a great temptation to use a lot of shots from the same scene and just recreate the narrative of the show, something that I always struggle with but especially when I'm following lyrics closely.

[lola]

Sometimes I think that with lyrics vids, it's okay to follow the narrative of the show; if the focus is on the typography, then that leaves the viewer less attention to spend on the visuals, and so keeping them simple can be helpful at times?