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A nod to the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons and their use of classical music.
Song: The Original Fur Elise by Ethan Uslan -
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A dark and stormy night and a killer is on the loose.
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A tribute to those who have made it through the Hot Ones gauntlet.
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Dumb Ways to Die (a Midsomer Murders vid) by valoise
Fandoms: Midsomer Murders - All Media Types
29 Jun 2024
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Some of the ridiculous deaths on the show.
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At the Moving Picture Ball by valoise for solar_plexus
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings RPF
25 Dec 2023
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From the Lord of the Rings Extended Edition bonus features, a tribute to the cast and crew of the movie trilogy.
Music: At the Moving Picture Ball by Bobby Short -
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An exploration of the emotional narrative of Tajōmaru (the bandit), the samurai, and the samurai's wife.
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The Fourth Doctor and Romana search for the six segments to the Key to Time.
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The second exercise in the 2022 Vexercises called for creating a 1-minute vid with continuity of action. Although Doctor Who is notorious for characters running down corridors, but in The Key to Time series they seem to spend a lot more of their time just walking, a perfect action for this exercise.
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Vids: Somebody's Watching Me and Bumpy Weather by valoise
Fandoms: Doctor Who (1963), Doctor Who
08 Jun 2022
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For the exercises in the 2022 Vexercises I've decided to use four stories from The Key to Time series. Pechakucha 2 ways involves creating a 1 minute vid consisting of 10 clips, each 6 seconds long and a bit of music. Then substitute a second song with the same video clips.
Initially I was going to use James Taylor's song Your Smiling Face and focus on the Doctor's very expressive face. The second version would use Somebody's Watching Me by Rockwell That idea didn't last beyond the first draft when it was clear that the James Taylor song wasn't working, but the Rockwell song was great.
What I needed was something kind of quirky in tone. I love jazz from the 1930s and no one does quirky jazz quite like Raymond Scott and his Quintette.
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Mabel, Charles and Oliver team up.
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A character study of Emma Peel, the coolest secret agent of the 1960s.
Music by Melissa Etheridge
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Moist von Lipwig finds redemption while resurrecting the Ankh-Morpork Post Office. Adora Dearheart is almost impressed.
Music: Powerhouse by The Raymond Scott Quintette
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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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A short study on love and death with the Gangster in the White Suit and the Gangster's Mistress.
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I've been vidding only sporadically so I decided to try the vexercises vidding exercise challenges now that I have more time on my hands. The first exercise was simple, adapting pechakucha presentations to vidding by making a simple one minute vid with ten six second clips, fading the audio at the beginning and the end. Then take those same clips and use a second piece of music.
For several years I've had Tampopo in mind as something I'd want to vid. The movie features an A storyline, a widow named Tampopo who struggles to perfect the ramen she serves at her restairant, and a B storyline, a gangster and his companion who use food in erotic ways. There are also half a dozen additional vignettes.
For this exercise I wanted to focus on Tampopo. The first vid has upbeat music to show her working toward success. The second has downbeat music that emphasizes her frustration. I'm not sure it's entirely successful, but it was enjoyable to work on.
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Grief and death are the perils of friendship among immortals.
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A celebration of the the Lord of the Rings actors and crew from the production videos.
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All of space and time - traveling with the Doctor is an adventure.
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