Vexercise 2 Drops! Visual Continuity

[lola]

Hello everyone and welcome to Vexercise #2! This one is all about working with visual continuity, using match on action/motion matches and/or graphic matches.

The Details: Produce a 1 minute video edit on your selected source using motion matching (match-on-action) and graphic matches as your primary editing logics. Audio should be music of your own choosing.

Simply speaking, motion matching is connecting motion in one shot/scene to motion in another, to give the effect that the motion and energy flows from one scene to the next. Graphic matching juxtaposes visually similar elements (shapes, even colors) to suggest connections (or metaphors!) between one shot/scene and the next, or maybe between different characters etc. You can also keep one fixed visual element in the scene (like a character or a piece of furniture) while everything else changes, suggesting the progress of time or maybe narrative arcs.

Here are some vids that use visual continuity via motion matching and graphic matching (feel free to rec others in the comments!)

• Yuris in Love(starting at about 1.41)
• Motionography 2012
• Multifandom Mashup 2019 (for All the Graphic Matches)

And a really helpful video essay on different types of match cuts: (bonus with lots of helpful Sherlock examples!) This video is about match cuts in cinema and TV, but I think it's really cool how we can adapt these techniques to vidding/fan video editing.

We'll have a check in on April 5th, and the exercise is due on April 11th! (Though of course feel free to share yours earlier and/or later!)

Note: if your source isn't that movement-y, you may find yourself relying on graphic matches, and that's okay! The idea is to fight your source a little bit... to feel the challenge of it, but to still have fun with it and make something you like! 

Comments

[thatyourefuse]

A Hotel Full Of Secrets

In which Wax Audio is my favorite for just, like, SO many reasons.

[lola]

*sob* they're all trapped in the waiting room!
I'm kind of amazed that you cut right to the heart of The Return in a one minute video, weaving all those storylines together through graphic matching and dissolves...
This really makes me want to rewatch the Return, or really the whole series <3

[thatyourefuse]

I think the first rule of Twin Peaks is that no one who knows about the waiting room will ever be okay about it again. I'm so flattered by this response that it's taken me until now to reply -- especially since I feel like I cheated a little tiny bit on the rules of the exercise with a couple of the transitions, but it was such a fun one to do nonetheless!

(The full version of this mashup is just. SUCH a vibe.)

[hexenmeister]

All the faces matching with each other (and mirrors!) give a cool/creepy sense that these people are fading into each other. And time is melting.

[thatyourefuse]

Insofar as it's possible to summarize The Return, that is a very pithy and accurate one! I'm so glad you liked.

[actiaslunaris]

I love the atmosphere you created here, the claustrophobia and eerie feeling of a recursive dream. It makes me want to watch the source!

[thatyourefuse]

That is also a very apt summary of canon, and I am delighted to hear that what I was trying to do was is working! Thank you so much.