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

Re: oh and an actual question

[extrapenguin]

You wouldn't happen to have any links on hand? I've been bashing my head against the wall with this, but it's not congealing into anything. :( (Alternating original and translation just looks jarring. I'm not sure if it's the fact that I do know the original that makes it so jarring, but ... argh. I'll need to bash my head some more.)

Re: oh and an actual question

[actiaslunaris]

Sadly, I can't seem to dig up any links; many foreign language fanvids I've watched tend to disappear, so if I did see any in the past, I'm not sure they'd still be up. I did remember this one Guardian fanvid that uses text creatively, and might give some inspiration: [镇魂 Guardian] CRACK. I also remembered a constructed reality/au fanvid (for Rurouni Kenshin) that puts spoken Japanese dialogue up on the screen:【浪客剑心现代衍生|斋藤一X比古清十郎】雨系列之一. That's as close as I could get with links.

Have you thought about using both the translation and the original language so they appear simultaneously, instead of alternating them? I think using complementary fonts would look good graphically, if they appeared together.

Re: oh and an actual question

[extrapenguin]

Have you thought about using both the translation and the original language so they appear simultaneously, instead of alternating them? I think using complementary fonts would look good graphically, if they appeared together.
The problem with that is that then it looks sort of crowded? There aren't that many places text could go without obscuring stuff and I also don't want to make it too tiny. Thank you for the links! I'll see if I can make something work...

(I suppose part of my problem is that I am very, very bad at text and fonts in general. Ah well. Surely if I stare at the drawing board for long enough, it will magically pop out a vid? /o\)

Re: oh and an actual question

[actiaslunaris]

I do understand the concern with crowding the screen. I gave this some more thought after my initial attempt to help and remembered that the source I'm vidding is actually what gave me the thought about simultaneously combining, so I've come back with a few more links:

The ending song for Galileo with karaoke work done by the subbing team for the first season: OST Galileo Kiss shite

In this you can see how the translation and original text of the song lyrics is placed on the top left, left edge, and bottom left of the screen, with animation of the text.

And a gif set about Tony Stark that elegantly shows how you can combine differing styles of fonts with subtle animation: futurist: i saw them all dead

This exercise is a challenge because it touches up against graphic design. I taught myself vidding and graphic design at the same time, so I hope you don't mind that I'm showing a bit of my passion about both in trying to help you! Some of these effects are a bit beyond what I can do myself with my software, so that's not to say that you should try to emulate it if it's too difficult. I'm fond of simple crossfade, myself. Besides, we all learn as we go, right?

I do hope it goes better for you and that your efforts yield something you like. Good luck!