Vexercise 2 Check In & Origins

[lola]

Hello Vexercisers! Somehow, it's the weekend already! How is Vexercise 2 treating you? Are you finding it easier or harder than Vexercise 1? What types of issues are cropping up? 

People seemed to like when I shared the origins for Vexercise 1, so I'll try to keep that going. In this case, this Vexercise was in part inspired by this post by Lim in the Videlicet Vidding Zine. I feel like motion and graphic matching are such a wonderful tools in vidding, but maybe ones we don't talk about explicitly all that often, at least as often as we do scene choice, lyrical interpretation, etc. 

Does approaching this Vexercise looking for opportunities for graphic and motion matching make you see the source in a different way? Does it maybe give new insights about repeating imagery or camera movements in your source? I find that's totally happening to me! 

Comments

[actiaslunaris]

I found this easier than exercise one, which was hard because all this time as a vidder I'd been training myself to cut more closely and more often; to build meaning with multiple clips rather than using one long clip. It was very old-school to return to that style, so returning to the style I've been cultivating for this new exercise was a relief.

It was still challenging because I had a concept I wanted to use, but couldn't do with the limit on source, so I just threw up my hands and decided to break that rule, which was hard for me on a personal level because working within limits is easier on me than not. It was also challenging because I'd just finished a fanvid that relied on this type of matching, and I am not good at it (or other vidders just make it look easy?), so returning to trying to do this was a bit like tapping a dry well. At least, I'm very familiar with my source and I don't have to build a mental catalog of visuals for it like I do for unfamiliar sources. Even so, I tore out the last half of the vid a few times in trying to match for motion, because I wanted more flow, but couldn't find it. I did finally find a good flow, but I had to work for it.

It was interesting to me to find, in rewatching some of my older vids, that I'd been graphic matching more often that I thought I did. Motion matching is fun for faster music, but graphic matching seems a better companion for slower music, and even though I used both for my vid, that was a fascinating realization.

[bonibaru]

I feel what you said so much - the agonies of both working within limits, and also breaking them, lol.