this autumn eve – a haiku

This Autumn Eve from Sophia Akenson-Klein on Vimeo.

Translation:

along this road

no one goes

this autumn eve…

a haiku by Matsuo Bashou

For week 2’s workshop, I paired up with Sophia to create a short sequence featuring lines of a haiku. The footage was taken just along Bowen St, and as the season was nearing autumn, we figured Matsuo Bashou’s haiku ‘This Autumn Eve’ was perfect. The project was mainly for the class to learn how to use Premiere Pro, but as I have used it in high school before, this task was more for me to familiarise myself and to help Sophia (she’s had previous experience with Final Cut Pro). A good method that I personally find very invaluable for me to learn and practise is to teach others, and so I was glad to have the chance to show Sophia a few tricks here and there with editing on Premiere Pro. I was also very glad to have brought my DSLR camera with my 50mm 1.4 lens to that tutorial, so it was very fun recording aesthetic, artistic shots.

Working together with Sophia in post production was a breeze. I have often found it difficult editing with other people in the past, as often preferences and opinions clash, leading to conflict and frustration with each other. However, with Sophia, we were open with each other’s ideas and styles and concluded with the final product with ease. In choosing a media course, I was definitely concerned with group projects and how well everyone would work together to create one product, however I guess I’ll have to find people that will be open to different ideas as well as be open-minded myself.