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

[extrapenguin]

*turns up early with tea* I continued with my Guardian vidding, and, uh, I abandoned all pretenses of rule-abiding to make a full-length vid! Shadows Crawling (on AO3). The song didn't cut nicely into 1 minute, so I made a 1:05 edit, then decided I might as well expand it into a full-length vid. For those not in the canon, warnings for hanging and suicidal ideation. Maybe also a flickering image warning? (Could someone tell me what the threshold is for flickering images? /inexperienced)

[actiaslunaris]

This one was a lot of fun for me to make and I'd been wanting to do something for this character for quite some time, too.

"Oh! My! God!", a study of a character who definitely does not have it all together, (no warnings except for quick cuts, on AO3).

[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

[caramarie]

Vid about Mitsuko from Battle Royale: https://youtu.be/AWFTt0AzoGY (note: contains violence/gore + nudity).

I didn't do kpop for this one, as I thought it would be getting a bit meta to define anyone as a side character :p

[gwenfrankenstien]

Help Me Mary (Velvet Goldmine, Shannon, see tags for content warnings) https://archiveofourown.org/works/23946910

[naye]

I used two side characters from the anime Sarazanmai, Reo and Mabu. They're canonically a couple, and have a lot going on in the few minutes of screentime they get! If anyone has seen Utena, Sarazanmai is by its director Kunihiko Ikuhara, which is why some of the visual language (and by that I mean yanking things out of your beloved's chest) seems familiar.

No Light

[allekha]

This was fun! I made one for Chris from Yuri on Ice as he's one of my favorite side characters from the show - on YouTube or DW w/ download link. (Contains suggestive content.)

[hannahneko]

ok SO i might have snapped and made 2 vids and also made each of them longer then 2 minutes hehehehe ( 〃．．) but im just VERY passionate about A LOT of characters on this show and tbh i have ideas for so many more lol

the first one i made was for yanli: https://youtu.be/HXod4c8MDzk i knew i had to make a vid for her and this song just immediately jumped into my mind adfjkgf so yeah this is vid is just my love letter to jiang yanli hihi

and then i made one for sizhui: https://youtu.be/ZCu46gBAtxY i actually rly like how this turned out but maybe that just cause this is one of my favourite songs and one of my favourite characters combined (dont even get me started on how much i adore sizhui)

[valoise]

The Gangster in the White Suit and the Gangster's Mistress are technically two of Tampopo's side characters, not one, but it would be hard tell their story of love and death separately.

"Do You Realize" on AO3
On YouTube