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

[extrapenguin]

My Nemesis/My Only Friend (all 3 vids stuffed into one AO3 work to reduce spam) – Guardian, Shen Wei & Ye Zun. I feel like the swapping out the song really changed it all, and I'm sort of intrigued by the effect of the unrelated lyrics. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else's look like!

oh and an actual question

[extrapenguin]

Because I was 1) consumed by inspiration, and 2) really fucking bored the past weeks, I also started a second base vid: Down My Throat* (Guardian, Shen Wei/Zhao Yunlan, has alcohol) and was then plagued by indecision: since my original song isn't in English, should I, in step 2, add some of the original Finnish lyrics (which no-one can understand) or some of the translation as the typography?

(I might just scrap this one's continuations and declare that this is a standalone, though.)

[actiaslunaris]

All in one AO3 post.

This one broke my ability to focus on vidding; I had to take a long break after fighting both lack of inspiration and a bug in my editor. *sigh* But I did it!

[hannahneko]

off topic - im just dropping by to say the the untamed vid you linked as an example genuinely made me cry so much omg :(((

[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?

[caramarie]

Ok, I did this! The three versions on AO3 (more ATEEZ).

I don't know if I will ever put lyrics on a video again, but it was interesting to try. Also interesting the difference it made when I came to pick an instrumental track – it was much easier to match something to the clean visuals than the lyric version.

[naye]

Guardian: Sparkle on AO3.

And thanks to the mods for making this a place for exercises - that low-pressure, try-new-things approach is just what I need to risk experimenting. ♥ Just learning how to make lyrics do things on screen was a great experience, and I feel like I've gotten a lot of Adobe Premiere Pro experience points (as well as taken some damage to my sanity points when the thing just kept crashing). The result this time is very much incorporating almost everything I decided to try - I did actually scale the final version back a bit from some of the stuff I had going on in earlier versions.

[lola]

Okay, this was touch and go at the end there.

Breathe, Nie Huaisang, Fatal Journey

1st version, Fleurie; 2nd version, Philip Glass

Aaaah working with text makes me soooooo obsessive!! I spent way too long nitpicking on this one!

[thatyourefuse]

Ugh, EXTREMELY under the wire: Land's End and Song of the Caged Bird. I don't think I used enough typography, but it's really not something I've ever been comfortable with, so.

[seekingferret]

Honestly I like the untexted one the best, it makes me laugh, but it was an exercise, so hopefully I learned something. I think I got some practice playing with the timing of how text plays against lyrics, that's something.

https://youtu.be/xEVlm8VsrTA

https://youtu.be/O64Nu8TtDhg

https://youtu.be/c8JJ9DqvADE

[hannahneko]

I finally did it!! I've had this idea in mind for weeks but I'm super busy so i JUST got to it :/ but here it is:

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24396823

(I actually rly dislike including text in my videos - which is why i'm very bad at it lol and i like the version without any text the best adjkfhsd but im glad this exercise at least made me try hehe)