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

[extrapenguin]

Thank you for the link to the post! This was definitely the harder exercise for me – I think because I think more in terms of the LAND, and this exercise was about the IN/OUT bits, to borrow the terms from the linked post. I also had some trouble getting an idea that depended on the sustained matching, as opposed to having some matching going on as a highlight at one point. Then I took a break to do exercise #3, and the previous linked video essay shook something loose, and I had an idea! (That also continued my Ye Zun roll.) I suspect this will end up having been the hardest exercise for me, as I have a vid already for #3, solid ideas for #4-6, and while #7 confounds me, I'm sure there'll be additional instruction when it rolls around.