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

[naye]

Thank you! This is genuinely fascinating to me. I've never been part of either vidding community, but I've consumed enough vids that I feel I understand what you're talking about? Though I absolutely could not have put any of it in words.

To me it feels like the divide between classic Western vidding (the LJ style, I guess) and anime music videos which are all superfast cuts and effects. Though my guess there was that anime footage can seem really static, so those cuts and effects have evolved to give AMVs more oomph? Which isn't the case for Marvel at all - they always come across as really busy to me.

But yeah, lots to chew on here! Thanks again for sharing.

[seekingferret]

Yeah, I think trying to give relatively static footage some oomph is part of why AMV's look like they do... also, the fact that it's relatively static makes it easier to do certain effects. In the rare cases where I've vidded animated source, I find myself doing more with masking and compositing than with live action source.