Vexercise 5 Check In

[lola]

Hi everyone!! How are your vidding and text explorations going? This exercise definitely stretches some potentially unfamiliar design muscles and involves learning some new skills.

I started working with text in vidding this year, inspired by some beautiful vids and AMVs I'd been seeing lately, though its always something I've found really interesting and wanted to try. Actually, I really started playing with text and typography with the videographic essay exercises, and once I saw the possibilities of that, I started thinking more fully about how text can be and is being used effectively for vids.

It seems like quite a few of you have already dove (dived? Hmm) into these exercises. What have you found the challenges to be? What feels like it works? From my limited so far experience working with text, I've found that keeping the editing simple and limiting the text per shot makes a difference, or it becomes overwhelming. But maybe that's not always the case. I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on this!

OH and this exercise is due this Saturday, May23.

Comments

[caramarie]

I think the thing I found most interesting was the difference the text made when I swapped out the music? Especially compared to the first exercise! I feel like you can put almost anything over visuals alone, but adding words in makes things trickier. And I feel like the text was fairly unobtrusive when it went along with the lyrics, but when it went with an instrumental piece it had much more weight.

In terms of setting the text ... I was not very imaginative, haha. I don't have much of a visual imagination, which I don't usually think affects my vidding, but then I don't use much in the way of effects ... and I guess text overlays feel kind of the same way to me.