In this weeks Tutorial, we began a short exercise that was aimed to give us some experience working with the cameras. I was paired with Immie and Sylvia and while I checked out the equipment, the girls wrote a quick script addressing the brief; how to survive your first 6 weeks of uni.

The audio quality of the attached mic was pretty terrible, and I remember in a class I took at La Trobe they really hounded us to not use the attached camera mic. However this is just a short exercise and carrying around a boom or even setting up radio mics would be a waste of time.

I edited on Premiere Pro in my hour lunch break between classes, knowing I wouldn’t have much time this week for the video. I would have liked to use some sound effects but I struggled to find royalty free SFX that were any good. Next time, or maybe soon I will re-upload it with some better audio.

Anyway, here’s the video, complete with an establishing shot, interview reactions, action shot of interviewees and pickups.

Class Exercise: How To Survive Week 6 of Uni from rosie pavlovic on Vimeo.