Final Premiere Video

Working out is not a new craze within our society but its focus has been heightened recently.  It has become popular for people to be active and to stay fit.  It has even carried over to social media.  For this project, I made an inspirational video about working out.  I focused on the idea that working out is good for you and can better ones mental and physical health I did this by focusing on the idea of the outdoors.  I focused on my idea “Get Moving and Get Outside”.  

For years working out and staying active has been something that many strive for.  As a result, many companies try to focus on this idea and the idea of bettering the existence of their company while also helping the planet. Many companies do this through inspirational commercials.  This is what inspired me.  I tried to create an inspirational video that embodied the idea that working out and getting active can be done in a fun way.  I tried to make my video as similar to a Nike ad or any sports ad that strives to inspire.  I chose to include shots of nature, showing how getting active can happen anywhere, while also showing a more typical way of getting active.  I made use of the aspect ratio, establishing shot and montage. 

I started making my video by collecting my videos of nature and past hikes that I had been on.  In the past few months and weeks I had been collecting videos and pictures of the nature and activities that I had done and made sure to capture the moment when I did do something outside. I then shot videos of my brother working out.  I started by putting these into Premiere and organizing the content in a concise way that would make sense in the context of my story and vision for my project.  I then added the transitions, titles and music in the background.  I ran into many problems with the ukulele music but was able to work through trial and error. 

 In my final draft video, I made some changes and attempted many. In my feedback many said that my video was good and did not need much tweaking, except for the audio.  I attempted to change the audio many times but was unsuccessful.  The audio continued to sound like it was echoing despite where I recorded the footage. I did the best I could in order to fix this but was unsuccessful.  I tried to put filters on it using premiere, but nothing seemed to change. I did change the video of my friend hitting softballs to my brother working out, as I felt this fit the theme in a more accurate manner.  I made the revisions I could and to the best of my ability.  

All videos and photos were shot by me.

Ukulele courtesy of http://bensound.com 

Music: https://www.bensound.com