Vexercises 2

[lizardjay]

"Rules": Your task for this one is to produce a one minute video edit (with an audio track of your own choosing) on your selected source using match-on-action and/or graphic matches as your primary editing logics. The motion of each shot should seem to continue into motion in the following shot and/or connect through images that are similar to the eye.

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WHAT A STRUGGLE THIS WAS.

I think you can track my thought process through this:

1. Graphic matching, got it. Match circles to circles, motions to motions---okay wow this is hard.
2. New plan. Action! This song really isn't suited for action... but I'm not stopping now.
3. Does it count as graphic matching if I just put a bunch of water shots in a row?
4. I put myself in a dead end. More action!
5. ...how am I supposed to end this thing?

Ultimately, not something I'm completely happy with, but that's mostly because I had to sacrifice any kind of story or focus in order to prioritize the transitions. On the bright side, it was a lot of fun to mix and match fights! That's my comfort zone far more than the artsy stuff :D Even though this song is very slow and calm, there's just enough going on with the instrumentation that I could still time action to it.

The reason I used this song, despite it really not matching anything I was going for, is because I have another project using this song that I'm kind of stuck on and I wanted to get more insight into it. I've determined my problem is that this song is very same-y in terms of its energy, so I think for my other project I'll try to keep it to 1-1.5 minutes long and not expect to transition between sections a lot.

Comments

[vriddy]

Really interesting to watch and read your insights since this is not at all the way I'm used to watch videos!! It's nice that you got some answers about your probable block for your other project, too... learning!! :D

[lizardjay]

Haha, this one isn't the way I'm used to making them either... and I feel like I was missing something since other people seem to be making some beautiful aesthetic stuff. But yes, I am learning, which is the important part! \o/

[vriddy]

Learning \o/