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5 Vignettes (or, 5x5)

My blog's kind of boring. It's mostly just text. I mean, super exciting and informative and hilarious text (right? right? Oh who am I kidding...), but still...it's just text.

I need more visuals. (I know I've mentioned that before, and I do have a couple Rave Runs I'm sitting on.)

Or, what would be really cool: audio-visuals. Movies.

Which leads me to the title of the post: 5 Vignettes (or 5x5). Long story short, a former teammate and roommate in college posted on facebook a link to a friend's vimeo page, and after surfing around a bit I came across this challenge to create a 5x5 short video. Internet creeping at its finest.

So what is this 5x5? And what are the 5 Vignettes? Basically, it's a short (25 second) film consisting of 5 clips lasting 5 seconds each telling some sort of story about a place or event. Here's a link to the group page with other peoples' films a short description of the genre.

Now, they say no music, but I'm not so sure that I want abide by that rule. So we'll see.

But anyway, this was appealing to me for a number of reasons. 1) I do want to do some sort of film stuff, and 25 seconds seems a manageable length. b) I'm a total novice at this whole film thing, and the short length and editing skills are something I think I can fiddle around with decently. And iii) the shorter film length is something I might actually have time for.

So my plan is to do some running-related 5x5s for the blog. And now that it's almost Christmas break, I might have some time to experiment before starting student-teaching. So I guess I should say, with cautious optimism, be on the lookout for a 5x5 in the (hopefully) near-future?

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