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

[lola]

Eeeeeh I am so excited that this has led to still more vidding!! And yes, while a video that just consists of eyef**ing could technically be all graphic matches and match on action, LOL, I suppose it's good to mix it up a bit :D I love the idea of just following a thread left by a previous shot, so it's like a sort of path of matches... that's really cool!

And yes, once you throw in all those other limits... it's limits galore, which can be really generative and help a timeline actually get filled!

[naye]

I will say that I feel these exercises are going to be really formative in what I do with vids in the future - I'm never not going to be looking for those graphic and action matches now. It's so very satisfying to find the right one to follow - really does feel like a following a thread in a labyrinth.