Vexercise 6 drops!!

[lola]

And we are in the the advanced round // genre mashing/AU vexercise!

Produce a 1 minute video edit that combines your selected source with another source from a different genre (i.e. fantasy, western, sitcom, film noir), and/or use editing to transform the genre of your source text. Audio can be of your choosing.

This vexercise is inspired by the many amazing genre shifting AU vids coming out of Chinese vidding these days, but there are many histories to these types of genre mash ups. Share your favorites in the comments!

A few favorites of mine:

A Guardian Vampire AU: https://youtu.be/zcOq-4TzETw

A Guardian Time Travel AU: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7e9DWh3plQ&list=PLGDrwAYvGR97GcSjjTDykoca-zwMJRS2d&index=3&t=2s

An Untamed Gamer AU: https://youtu.be/xajzWD1ZfZQ

Comments

[actiaslunaris]

Here we go: "Let's Make Lots Of..." on AO3, no warnings.

[lola]

This is so fun! Because I don't really know the source, I would've just really fully thought it was 100% caper from this! I loved the music choice, the driving rhythm of the song, and the correspondingly playful and upbeat editing.

[actiaslunaris]

Well, that just made my day. :D Thank you!

[hannahneko]

i have a question :3 so it is ok if we (try to) change the genre through the editing and adding music and subtitles and not use another source right?

[lola]

Yes, totally! Sorry if that wasn't clear!

[hannahneko]

no no it was! dont worry ^^ i was just making sure! ahh i love this exercise but so many ideas so little time

[lola]

Yay!! I'm so glad you're excited for it! and fwiw I am also going to not use external source because my muse told me not to :)

[naye]

My contribution! Guardian: The (fansubbed) Anime Opening

[lola]

Hahaha I love this!! I would totally watch this anime :D. Also excellent match on action and graphic matching throughout!

[naye]

I'm super pleased it does come across as an anime opening! yue_ix did such a fantastic job. And I'm also very happy to hear you liked the action/graphic matching which is the one thing I can actually take credit for myself.

[seekingferret]

Dr. Grey's Laboratory

Grey's Anatomy as a show about mad scientists, to Jonathan Coulton's "Skullcrusher Mountain"

[actiaslunaris]

I'm a little bit scared, because I would not want to be one of those 'pretty things', but the scientists all look like they're having a lot of fun in their chosen profession. I love your song choice!

[extrapenguin]

Coldest Blood, a Guardian spies & secret agents/James Bond fusion AU.

Ramen Cowboy - Tampopo

[valoise]

As part of Vexercises exercise 6 I chose to reframe the movie Tampopo as a Western using Ennio Morricone's iconic theme song from The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. Some of the common Western tropes include:

The mysterious stranger riding into town - Goro
His trusty steed - Goro’s truck
Beautiful woman with a troubled past - Tampopo, a widow with a failing restaurant
A villain - Pisken, who harasses Tampopo about closing her restaurant
The gunfight - in this case a fistfight in the street
Riding off into the sunset

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[hannahneko]

here is my video for task 6!! i decided to transform The Untamed into a mystery detective show...
https://archiveofourown.org/works/24576460
https://youtu.be/ybAv7YN_85A

(and no i did not only do this cause i'm mad we wont get a second season when there was so much potential to make it exactly just this - lwj and wwx travelling, practicing cultivation, solving crime, and having little adventures :/)

[lola]

ooh i'm excited to watch this!! (and I would so be on board for that second season, or hell, even a sequel to the novel. Ah well, that is what fan fiction is for I suppose!)

I turned it into a teen drama for mine :) I want to experience The Untamed in all its potential manifestations! <3

[hannahneko]

ahhh a teen drama!! that was also on my (very long) list of ideas for this exercise cause it fits so well:) cant wait to watch yours then!!

[lola]

And here is mine, under... no make that over the wire? Is that a thing? Well June 6th has come and gone, and my computer says it is June 7th now and furthermore that I should be going to bed, but first:

The Untamed as a teen drama (I know, not really a stretch). I had a lot of fun with this one!

[bonibaru]

I didn't have time to do the exercise this time BUT I wanted to slide in and share something I did a while ago that preemptively meets the criteria: Shadowhunters: Sin City trailer in which I took a favorite cheesy supernatural teen drama and turned it into a gritty detective noir movie trailer using the audio from the Sin City movie trailer and footage from Shadowhunters. My biggest regrets are 1) I wasn't as proficient with coloring back then and I would do it differently now, and 2) I didn't have logoless source because I was capping episodes with Movavi as they were airing on Freeform so if I could get logoless source without all the annoying ad text I would absolutely remaster this with clean footage.

[thatyourefuse]

The Windmills of Your Mind

... it's twice as long as it's supposed to be WHOOPS.

The hardest thing about this exercise was finding a genre that Twin Peaks hasn't actually canonically touched on at some point -- it's a horror! it's a soap! it's a teen drama! it's a noir! it's an art film! it's a procedural! it's a cosmic horror! it's a gritty cable drama! it's not not SF! it's a bird! it's a plane! it's Superman!

In the end, I had a long-standing AU idea that converted really nicely into a kind of circular-construction women's suspense fiction thing, so that's all right, then.