I had a lot of fun filming and editing the mini interview. I think I enjoyed it a lot more than PB2 as it wasn’t focused on myself and didn’t feel as susceptible of being judged. I could focus on someone else and not be in front of the camera. I used my SLR at home, but found it difficult to get the best lighting but finally found a light room upstairs to use in the interview. I really liked the way my subject spoke about the questions I asked her and as she is a friend of mine I chose her for that reason on top of her skiing talents.
As a beginner in Premiere, I am still learning the ropes, but when I got stuck I would try and google something and watch a tutorial which helped a lot. The found footage was also something that I enjoyed finding and slotting into appropriate moments in the video. I never realised how much documentaries and news segments rely on B-Roll footage and I can never watch a segment in the same way.
Although still having a structure, I believe documentary is something that really interests me as the structure is more leniant and it does not have to appeal to certain box offices (like Hollywood films). I’d really like to have a play around with documentary more in the future and I’d like to shoot things being “a fly on the wall” in order to obtain real, raw footage.
One struggle I faced was time pressure, as my subject was away skiing until last week so I only had a short amount of time to film her. For next time I think I would access how doable the time frame is, however I managed to finish the video in time.
The other people I had in mind for this exercise was my Dad who is a lawyer, and I chose to do my friend Stella as I thought I could represent her more easily as I find my dad and I get are always joking around and I would get mediocre footage.
Stella Ajani was able to give me some of her overseas skiing footage which I have slotted in, as well as my filming of some of her trainings which I believe gives a good mix of her international and national status. Stella is training for the winter olympics in the next 5 years and I wanted to capture her hard work and dedication on film as she is one of the most driven people I know and I really respect that.
I felt really professional getting Stella to fill out the consent form and am looking forward to working more professionally in the Projects coming up. Overall I was quite happy with how my video turned out and I feel like I am becoming more and more comfortable with Premiere and Audition because at the start of the year I had no idea what either of them were.