Vexercise 5 check-in

[nu_breed]

Happy Saturday/Sunday everyone! How are you going with your colour/colour grading/lightbuilding vexercise?

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

I ended up getting carried away with mine and accidentally ended up with a whole vid which I'm about to post.

It seems lightbuilding is a confusing concept for a bunch of folks and I would say it's really up for interpretation. In my mind it's using the lighting (natural or artificial) like you would use movement or graphic matching - letting the flow of it guide your editing choices. If anyone has more questions please ask! And/or if you're stuck with colour, let us know and we can chat about it :)

Comments

[alba17]

I’m having a lot of trouble with this one. I started with the idea of organizing clips by color, so I made groups of red, blue, gold, etc. - clips that were predominantly that color. That's as far as I've gotten! I thought I would maybe use instrumental music, that it would be easier. But no ideas for how to organize the clips into some kind of narrative or theme. I've gotten so clenched about it, I haven't sat down to just throw clips in a timeline to hash it out, which might give me some kind of idea. I think I really need music, which is how I usually start. Anyway, pretty blocked. I then thought, well, just make a vid with a song you like and apply a LUT and call it a day, forget about the color groupings.

The one remaining song idea I have for this fandom DOES relate to light/dark, so maybe I should change tack and go for a light building theme. ARGH!

[nu_breed]

If it helps, what you did was exactly what I did with mine - sometimes aesthetics are fine just on their own! What I would suggest is finding a piece of music and arranging your colour sections based on where they feel right according to the music. Instrumental is great for this!

But if it helps, I always vid music-first and I also did that with this Vexercise and it helped me visualise the light/colour and what worked flow-wise.