Vexercise 3 Drops! Audio Editing Supercut

[lola]

Happy Sunday Everyone! It's time for Vexercise 3: 

3) Audio layering supercut

The instructions read as follows: {edited for music version!}

Produce a 1 minute video edit of your selected source, in which you edit together similar visuals (this could be a theme like “hands” or “curtains,” or it could be a type of shot or camera work like “all the close ups”). Your audio for this should be a selection of spoken word from your source, or audio that is not music from your source. You can combine these spoken word or non-music sounds with music if you want! The audio and visuals can line up some of the time or none of the time. If your source doesn’t have audio, you can choose audio from another source. 

My guess is that this one might be an unfamiliar process to some--that is, maybe those of us who have vidded before still may not have a lot of experience with this one. That's true for me--I haven't done a lot of audio editing beyond cutting songs down to size. But this practice of audio editing fan video is very popular within certain fandoms and fan communities and is spreading rapidly, and can be so amazingly done. Plus there are those videos that integrate audio *into* a song like all the Glitter and Golds. Strictly speaking that doesn't fit into this challenge, BUT if someone wants to go for it I know I for one would be excited to see it! 

Audio Editing Inspirations (please feel free to suggest others)

• Under Pressure (Good Omens)
• Glitter and Gold (Hannibal)
• Glitter and Gold (MCU)
• The Untamed

A (very small) smattering of Supercut Inspirations:
Videographic Essays:

• Kogonada's "Hands of Bresson"
• (and if you want to see the Untamed supercut of hands I made for the vidcrit exercises inspired by Kognada's Bresson supercut)
• Object Oriented Breaking Bad
• ROYGBIV: A Pixar Supercut
• Cigarettes - A Tarantino Supercut 
  

Vids

• hmmmm there was one of Sherlock's coat that I loved, but I can't seem to find it... if you can think of any vids that incorporate or use supercut logics, please share then and I'll add them here!
• Ummm how about this Guardian one: warning for lollipop indecency :D Guardian - WeiLan】Lollipop Temptation
  

Sooo, you may have questions, ask them here!!! And if and when you create something for this challenge, of course do share it here and with the A03 Vexercises collection!! 

As always, we'll have a check in next week, and this exercise will be due the following week, on April 25th. 

Happy vidding :) 

ETA: I've been pondering this (and contemplating my own vexercise!) and I think that, since music is so important to vids, and so many of the examples we gave actually do incorporate music, it makes sense for the rules for this one to expand to incorporate external music, as long as you *also* edit audio source. :) 

Comments

[extrapenguin]

I... sort of forgot the supercut thing, oops, and turned it into more of a micro-cut? One scene cut and recut all over again. I'm proud of my audio work, though! Continued vidding Guardian, Ye Zun-y things. Whispers, Voices, Pictures, Lies. (AO3)

[actiaslunaris]

I love this so much; it's so atmospheric. The coloring works very nicely to add to that, too.

[extrapenguin]

Thank you! The coloring took ... two passes, actually, to do with both coloring and also transitions as I wanted them, though I'm not sure whether that was program limitation or operator error.

[actiaslunaris]

Good for you getting it to work, even with two passes. I've had to do that before. Post-processing phase is the most finicky.

[lola]

Ahh, this was so interesting, and then the dream reveal... poor ZYL that's really quite the nightmare!!
Terrific video and thanks for being our first!!!

[thatyourefuse]

I have literally zero knowledge of canon, but this is so hypnotic! I love it.

[extrapenguin]

Yay! I'm glad it worked even without canon knowledge.