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

[actiaslunaris]

I broke the rules expanded my source by using clips from more than two episodes. I got carried away. Anyway, this is what I was able to do: "Blood Roses" (direct link; AO3; contains blood and violence).

[hannahneko]

ok this is super intense i rly enjoyed it! i dont know this show but your edit rly succeeded in bringing a kinda eerie vibe across OOF well done!

[actiaslunaris]

Thank you! I'd been wanting to do this concept for a while and this was the perfect opportunity. I'm pleased it comes across as eerie.

[lola]

Oh wow, this is so intense!! The visual flow is and also the use of close ups -- and the red throughout -- is so compelling. I don't know the source, but I was transfixed (if um, a little disturbed :).

[actiaslunaris]

Eeee. Thank you. I was going for disturbing because although the show is overall light in tone, sometimes it does go very dark and I wanted to explore that with this. I'm pleased to know that it works!