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

[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?