Week 4 Vexercise Drops!! Side Character Study

[lola]

So for this week we're taking a break from all the various formal constraints (beside the one minute limit... which uh... can be a wonderful guideline if it's helpful to you, taking the pressure off to make something bigger, but if you're inspired you can certainly keep going ike I totally did in my last vexercise

One of the things vids can do so wonderfully is bring to the fore and distill side characters, and that's what this vexercise is all about:

4) Side character study


Produce a 1 minute video edit from your selected source focusing on a side character, making them the central character of your vid. Audio can be of your choosing.

Inspirations:

Blackbird (HP fanvid; McGonagall focus)

Insane (Xue Yang, The Untamed) 

Feel free to rec your favorite side character vids in the comments below too!

Can't wait to see what you all come up with. Happy vidding! 

Comments

[seekingferret]

I'm going to make another one because surely this doesn't count, but... I made a supercut of Derek Shepherd's coffee cup from that one episode in Season 10 where his coffee cup goes on a journey. This might be the dumbest vid I've ever made, and I've made some dumb vids.

Supercup

[actiaslunaris]

I love that this elevates the coffee mug to a being a character in its own right. So very clever.

[seekingferret]

I want to be clear that this is not my own cleverness. I did not arrange the clips artfully into a narrative. I just literally grabbed every single clip in the episode where the cup appears and arranged them in order and set it to music that I stole from laurashapiro's West Wing vid "Circles".

[actiaslunaris]

I'd just like to say that even if it's not new cleverness to you, it's still a very cool transformative work and since I'm not familiar with the source, it's all very new to me. In working on exercise three, I didn't feel satisfied with how I tried to adhere to the rules there; something got broken no matter how I approached it, and for my second try, I also did what you did here: grabbed each clip and arranged them in order, with very little adjustment. You made the already set narrative something new, regardless. I definitely enjoyed every second of it.

[lola]

Haha this is such a clever take on this vexercise!! And I love how it's a sort of response to or remix of Circles! I really enjoyed this! It is amazing how it renders the cup a character and even gives it some character depth lol. The red cup's hero journey :)

[valoise]

Who knew a coffee cup could have an adventure?

[extrapenguin]

Honestly, this is genius. The adventure! The drama of the shattered cup! The reunion with its brethren! What a good cut of an intrepid coffee cup, and I love the way the title riffs off "supercut". :D