I had the amazing opportunity of interviewing one of Melbourne’s best barber. I hope that you guys would like this video. I used the sony MCE50 to record the entire video, mainly because I don’t know how to use an external on my own camera, and to fill in one blank in the requirement. But because I hadn’t tinker with the camcorder very long, I didn’t know how to set the audio input, and that’s why you’ll hear quite a bit annoying noise in my videos. At first I didn’t know how to structure the video, but after reading a bit of the exercise sheet, I understood a bit what I was going to do. Peter Nichols, the person I interviewed, turned to be a very photogenic person, and not camera-shy at all, mainly because he already has an article made after him (shown in the video). He told me one of his favourite type of music is jazz & blues, so I searched the best creative commons jazz music that would suit the mood. I finally used all of the music from Bensound. Truthfully at first I didn’t like this song, but after an hour searching other music, I realised I kept comparing them to the one from Bensound. Since the video is about Peter and his Barbershop, and I don’t think his family would kindly accept me to record all of them, plus the time limit, and the release form they would had to sign, sticking to his barber shop would be better. I luckily got a footage of him in action, to show his skill, being in the hair styling industry for 24 years! For the video transitions, since I haven’t been using Premiere Pro for long, and the only other Adobe apps that I’ve used is photoshop, I stick to using the transition presets from the app. For the colour of the video, I desaturated them to make the video a little bit older, and I liked how it turned out. one of the challenges I had in the video is searching for found footage. I wanted to find videos of old 90’s barbershop but didn’t manage to find one. Luckily he told me he grew up in a horse-racing family. But the worst challenge I had to face would be the audio. My tutor Louise Turley was true, editing audio is 100x harder that video! There’s was no concrete visual form of the audio, and trying to cut out one spot sound is a nightmare, you had to do it without breaking of the subject’s vocal, yet the sounds are all integrated. You will notice in the video, an Alicia key’s song playing in the background. I basically couldn’t get rid of the sound, given my zero expertise on using Audition. So I let the background noise in to somehow cover Alicia’s voice (sorry Alicia Keys, I still love your songs). I got inspired by one of the videos Paul Richard gave, that showed the multiple frameworks, and tried to implement it. But I didn’t do it that extreme, just a couple of video cropping and combined together. At the end of the video I changed the music to introduce a brighter mood and personality, and give big titles in front of the video. I did that mainly because his quotes were very empowering, and because I don’t want to raise the audio’s decibel. I don’t want to ruin people’s ear. Overall the best aspect I think from the video is end part, I liked how I just bluntly smash a +100 font size there, and the worst aspect would be the audio where you can hear Alicia Keys singing, but honestly I am very happy to be able to pull a video like this, and to had the courage to ask Mr. Nichols, because I had never met him before, he was a complete stranger to me. but after this, I think I would go to his barbershop every month. There are some things that I regret not doing for this video, for example asking Mr Nichols to repeat the question before answering them, and I forgot to ask him to mention his name :’). The irony was I tried so hard to get all the best shot, and I missed the fundemantal ones. This assignment had taught me to be more confident in asking people, but at the same time knowing the ethics and the procedures in doing so
