The footage that we got from the shoot would only make up a third of the video. Most of the work was still to be done in the edit suite. Finding the right footage of Australian films and filmmakers, cutting everything together, recording the voiceover, grading the shots, mixing the sound levels, finalising the graphics, etc.

We eventually went with using the music straight from the latest trailer for Star Wars: The Force Awakens, and also ended up going for the completely over-the-top parody style by incorporating some cheesy Star Wars sound effects over our original footage (e.g. the sound of a lightsaber activating can be heard while there’s a shot of a boom pole getting extended). Chris then loaned his awesome deep voice as the narrator, starting off with some generic cliched lines before giving a pretty impressive delivery of our seminar’s summary.

There were some stresses that came with the process, among them being the fact that we were always in a state of waiting for the guest names to be finalised so we could put them at the end of the video. But with the deadline for the promo video nearing and the guest names nowhere in sight, we had to make do with just not including their names in the video at all. At the end of the day, it worked, and the rest of our group reacted positively to the video. It was a nice feeling after that was uploaded, knowing that my sub-group and I had played our part well and we could trust the rest of the group to do their bit too.