So how did I celebrate this 2016 Labour Day public holiday? By playing around and adjusting to the tools on Premiere Pro. Fortunately, I’ve had experience with this software before due to Year twelve media. This time, I focused on intricate details such as colour grading, transitions and audio gains in order to provide a certain aesthetic.

Since I’ve almost completed production on my Project Brief Two, I aim to convey a realistic yet vibrant aesthetic that fits with my theme of “weird quirks”. By utilising the RGB curves tool, I’ll be able to adjust the saturation of the footage and even manipulate the colour balance. Unlike my Haiku exercise, my Project Brief Two will consist of colour so it’s essential to keep a consistently vibrant aesthetic throughout.

From the Haiku exercise I was able to embed text through transitions. This time, I’ll be using transitions in order to move from scene to another and to provide a continuous fast pace. Upon looking through the Video Transition folder, quick dissolves, slides and wipes would be the suitable options.

In order to have a balance between the background music and the narration, I would have to rely on audio gains. The background music shouldn’t be too loud nor too faint while the narration should be the main focus in clarity and volume. Through adjusting the decibels, I’ll be able to control the strength and intensity of the noise.

Fingers crossed my audio and footage meet my expectations. As I’ve learnt the hard way in the past, not everything can be fixed in post-production despite Premiere Pro to be such a user friendly editing program (thus far).