Vexercise 5 Drops: Play with lyrics & typography

[lola]

Hi everyone! It's that time of the weekend, time for the new vexercise. This one is inspired by the many amazing vids out there that play with text and lyrics in different ways. It's a multi step vexercise--can't wait to see what folks come up with!

Lyrical play/no lyrics (3 versions):

Produce a 1 minute video edit from your selected source, in which lyrical interpretation ( guides your shot choice. You could interpret the lyrics literally or metaphorically/suggestively. Once you have completed this video, choose selected lyrics to incorporate creatively as text within the video. Then make a version of this video with the text, but substituting the original audio with a different piece of music that has no lyrics.

Inspirations:
Overtime (Steven Universe):: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-OfHYgDF-Y
Light Years Away (The Untamed): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_pqNf5dA_8&list=PLGDrwAYvGR94FnYTVNoEgPEBNz9aGujxU&index=3&t=0s

Comments

[naye]

If anyone's done this before, what's your preferred order to do things in? Finish assembling the vid and then do the lyrics? Do the assembly and the lyrics hand in hand? Or maybe do some typography first to have an idea of what clips would look good with it?

Any other advice? I've got audio that I want to do a lot of fast cuts to, but fast cuts + lyrics on screen changing might be a bit much in combination?

[actiaslunaris]

I usually do all my typography work after assembling the vid. I use a fontviewer to audit fonts before I settle down to choosing. As for the fast cuts and lyrics: I've rewatched vids to catch nuance, so I wouldn't worry about that if I was trying to do it, I'd just try to render a test and see if timing would need to be fixed so everything works.

[naye]

Thank you! I'm finding it really tricky to find a good balance between the clipping and the lyrics. The two examples in the post had very different styles of incorporating lyrics - I feel that something like the Stephen Universe vid would be difficult to sequentially, whereas the Untamed vid I could see assembling first and then adding lyrics to. So right now I'm trying all sorts of things and trying to keep it from just becoming too much of everything.

[actiaslunaris]

You're welcome! Good luck to you. I'm sure you'll get to something with which you'll be happy.