Vexercise reference
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vexercises last ran, I decided to go through and categorize what happened on which week on each round (2020, 2021, 2021 summer [autumn] school, and 2020), in part as a way of seeing how the curriculum evolved and in part in case I ever want to find, say, the lightbuilding examples and explainers. The pechakuchas are a constant, and every round had one genre mashing/AU/multivid/transform -type exercise (with a different name each year).
Content lists:
2020
2021
2021 summer
2022
Pechakucha: Create a video edit of exactly 60 seconds consisting of precisely 10 video clips from your chosen source text, each lasting precisely 6 seconds, assembled with straight cuts. Make two versions of your pechakucha, with 1 minute excerpts from two different songs as audio. Fade in and out on your audio at the beginning and end of the audio clip.
Week 1 all rounds
Haiku: Five 2-second shots, followed by seven 1-second shots, followed by five 2-second shots = one 27 second vidlet
Week 1 for 2021 summer
Transitions: Use transitions for every edit. Extreme version: use as many different transitions as you can.
Week 2 for 2021 summer
Color: Let color guide the logic and flow of this vexercise, either by selection or special effects. Highly recommended: download an LUT or more and try using it!
Week 3 for 2021 summer; Week 5 for 2022
Visual continuity: match-on-action and graphic matches as your primary editing logics. The motion of each shot should seem to continue into motion in the following shot.
Week 2 for 2020, 2022
Lightbuilding: your guiding logic is lightbuilding. Try letting the flow and build of light guide your editing choices throughout
Week 2 for 2021; Week 5 for 2022
Rhythmic editing: Try your hand at time remapping at least once in this video. (If you’re up to it, make 2 versions, 1 that cuts primarily on the beat, another where you try syncopated editing (cutting on the *and*)
Week 3 for 2021, 2022
Lyrical play/no lyrics: 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. Try using key frames for moving text or text masking.
Week 5 for 2020, 2021; Week 4 for 2022
Audio layering supercut: edit together similar visuals (this could be a theme like “hands” or “curtains,” or it could be a type of shot or camera work like “all the close ups”). Your audio for this should be a selection of spoken word from your source, or audio that is not music from your source.
Week 3 for 2020
Remix: Try connecting two different songs in some way — a mashup, one leading into another, etc., and then vid rhythmically to the result.
Week 5 for 2021 summer
Side character study: Side character study
Week 4 for 2020, 2021; Week 6 for 2022
Genre mashing/AU: 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. OR: alternative narrative
Week 6 for 2021
Multivid: put your media source choice in conversation with other media using match on action, graphic matching, audio layering, and lyrical play
Week 7 for 2020, 2021
Transform: Transform your source as completely as you can so that it feels unrecognizable.
Week 7 for 2021 summer
Response: Respond to another fanvid, vexercise or otherwise
Week 6 for 2021 summer, 2022
Which ones were your favorites? I really liked the pechakuchas and lyrical play ones. I should probably think more about color and lightbuilding at some point...
vexercises last ran, I decided to go through and categorize what happened on which week on each round (2020, 2021, 2021 summer [autumn] school, and 2020), in part as a way of seeing how the curriculum evolved and in part in case I ever want to find, say, the lightbuilding examples and explainers. The pechakuchas are a constant, and every round had one genre mashing/AU/multivid/transform -type exercise (with a different name each year).Content lists:
2020
2021
2021 summer
2022
Pechakucha: Create a video edit of exactly 60 seconds consisting of precisely 10 video clips from your chosen source text, each lasting precisely 6 seconds, assembled with straight cuts. Make two versions of your pechakucha, with 1 minute excerpts from two different songs as audio. Fade in and out on your audio at the beginning and end of the audio clip.
Week 1 all rounds
Haiku: Five 2-second shots, followed by seven 1-second shots, followed by five 2-second shots = one 27 second vidlet
Week 1 for 2021 summer
Transitions: Use transitions for every edit. Extreme version: use as many different transitions as you can.
Week 2 for 2021 summer
Color: Let color guide the logic and flow of this vexercise, either by selection or special effects. Highly recommended: download an LUT or more and try using it!
Week 3 for 2021 summer; Week 5 for 2022
Visual continuity: match-on-action and graphic matches as your primary editing logics. The motion of each shot should seem to continue into motion in the following shot.
Week 2 for 2020, 2022
Lightbuilding: your guiding logic is lightbuilding. Try letting the flow and build of light guide your editing choices throughout
Week 2 for 2021; Week 5 for 2022
Rhythmic editing: Try your hand at time remapping at least once in this video. (If you’re up to it, make 2 versions, 1 that cuts primarily on the beat, another where you try syncopated editing (cutting on the *and*)
Week 3 for 2021, 2022
Lyrical play/no lyrics: 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. Try using key frames for moving text or text masking.
Week 5 for 2020, 2021; Week 4 for 2022
Audio layering supercut: edit together similar visuals (this could be a theme like “hands” or “curtains,” or it could be a type of shot or camera work like “all the close ups”). Your audio for this should be a selection of spoken word from your source, or audio that is not music from your source.
Week 3 for 2020
Remix: Try connecting two different songs in some way — a mashup, one leading into another, etc., and then vid rhythmically to the result.
Week 5 for 2021 summer
Side character study: Side character study
Week 4 for 2020, 2021; Week 6 for 2022
Genre mashing/AU: 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. OR: alternative narrative
Week 6 for 2021
Multivid: put your media source choice in conversation with other media using match on action, graphic matching, audio layering, and lyrical play
Week 7 for 2020, 2021
Transform: Transform your source as completely as you can so that it feels unrecognizable.
Week 7 for 2021 summer
Response: Respond to another fanvid, vexercise or otherwise
Week 6 for 2021 summer, 2022
Which ones were your favorites? I really liked the pechakuchas and lyrical play ones. I should probably think more about color and lightbuilding at some point...