Vexercise 3 "Due" Today (and belated background on this vexercise)

[lola]

Hello everyone!

First off, sorry I missed the check in post last weekend... some stuff was keeping me away from the computer but I've been delighted to come back and see the audio editing supercuts that have come in! We've got a bit fewer (so far) than the previous exercises... I'm wondering if you found this exercise harder than the others, and why? I did, actually! I was thinking it's because it deviates more fully from what we maybe traditionally think of as a "vid"... but I'd love to hear your thoughts on this!

This vexercises is there because, well, really this is a huge genre of fan video, in some fandoms at least, and I thought it would be fun to explore and stretch a bit. But I've found it hard, and am now more than before in awe of some of the amazing audio editing fan videos out there.

Anyhow, enough rambling... If you haven't already, do post yours to the A03 collection! And hopefully some will keep spilling in (like mine :D)

As is our custom, after today we'll make a post that compiles all of the vids created out of the third exercise so you can catch any that you missed, and hopefully offer motivational comments if you have the energy :)

Tomorrow of course Vexercise 4 drops!

Happy vidding :) <3

Comments

[seekingferret]

Hmm... thoughts on this:

-If nothing else, it was a useful exercise in that it forced me to watch some more Audacity tutorials and become more comfortable using Audacity. Technically, this was a good exercise for me.

- The end result does not feel like a vid I usually make. So I couldn't lean on my normal intuitions about clip selection and pacing, and that was scary.

- What was most interesting to me was how I found myself drifting into youtube style in more than just the audio. My intuitive response to making a vid outside my comfort zone was subconsiously to lean a bit on the stylistic choices of youtube vids I have watched that used audio like this, in terms of color and transitions.

- It was really powerful and satisfying to be able to control the narrative pacing with my audio editing choices. Thinning out the audio by dropping a voice clip, or changing the spacing between audio clips to emphasize more or less of the background music, was an exciting new tool to play with. Usually when I vid I have to work much more within the constraints of the song's pacing.

[naye]

It was difficult - it felt like with the audio and theme constraints I was playing with completely new tools in a very cramped box? Which is probably why I only stuck to sort of...half the instructions, maybe?

On the other hand difficult is interesting and challenging, which is why approached this from two completely different angles and made two separate vids! One of my main takeaways is deep frustration that it's so difficult to find pure audio effects without background music or anything. Oh to have the master soundtrack and pick and choose what to use...!

[bonibaru]

I just did not have time to work on anything. I wanted to specifically because I don't have much experience in this arena at all (see everything that seekingferret said above about styles past and present). Audio overlays have never been something I've given more than a passing thought to and for me as a consumer of vids they're not super important or a regular focus for me. So I wanted the opportunity to learn something new, but I didn't have time to learn something new. I may come back to it in the future.

[extrapenguin]

I know I at least approached it completely differently to how I might approach a vid - I constructed a monologue out of the spoken word (despite not speaking Chinese) instead of the more common "use scene SFX/dialogue to accentuate music" technique I see used semioften. (Which I'm not terribly a fan of.) Maybe the original forbidding of music affected participation? After all, most vids have a soundtrack of modern popular music, often with lyrics. I don't think ones silent but for source audio are that common.