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

[bonibaru]

Another challenge is that I'm trying to do multiple types of matching at once - not just the motion, but also the lyrics and the beat and the story arc of the vid overall.

This is one of the biggest challenges, juggling everything and trying to make judgment calls down to the microsecond sometimes. Which is why I like the focused structure of these exercises. Like trying to learn an entire piano concerto, but movement by movement, so that by the end all the pieces come together into a beautiful whole.

[naye]

Which is why I like the focused structure of these exercises. Like trying to learn an entire piano concerto, but movement by movement, so that by the end all the pieces come together into a beautiful whole.
It is so useful! As a complete beginner learning these fundamental skills by (technically) concentrating on one at a time is so very helpful! And then yeah, like you said - I can incorporate more and more of them into a whole.