I went to my home in NSW over the weekend to film majority of my footage as I am a true farmer at heart. However, the idea of what exactly I wanted my footage to reflect didn’t come to me until I was well into the editing process.

I decided to just throw my footage onto my Premiere Pro timeline. It was chaos. However, when I looked back over the sequence I created, it was (almost) perfect. The random bits of footage stitched together in a kind of disjointed, wild snapshot video, was, as it turns out, exactly what I wanted my self-portrait to be.

Obviously, it still needed work, but that became my theme: chaos. I wanted to demonstrate an almost flash-like look at my life. I created loud, fast music to go with the genre of the film (action) and synced it with the footage.

I feel the most successful part of my video is the start. The moving image of the photo wall in my room shows the parts of my life the rest of the video doesn’t. While the backing music builds the suspense, and sets the tone just right.

In contrast, I wish I could go back and re-film some of the footage with my phone horizontal. The black outline in some videos reduces the flow of imagery.

I had created the background music in garage band, which was quite fast paced and the audio that meant the most to me was, in comparison a lot slower and more relaxed it made the mash quite jarring, and I found it difficult to place.

I have some experience working with Premiere and I enjoy the process editing the video’s to get them exactly the way I want them. However, I had to manually sync the music I was creating in garage band with the flow of the film as I was making it which was a new area for me. I had to get the beats exactly right, down to the millisecond. I loved the challenge of it and I think it worked out quite well.

I am very happy with the outcome of my self-portrait, and I think it captures me quite well.