60 Sec Doc
Development
How to cut together a film
I edited the documentary in Premiere pro, a programme I have not experienced working with before.
I watched loads of youtube videos that helped me to understand the programmes.
Premiere Pro Basics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hls3Tp7JS8E
Premiere Pro tips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnWhWVarfqM
After cutting together the first draft of the film it felt like an advert rather than a documentary. To combat this we added a commentary of Natasha over the top of the video.
Voice over
content
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Name
and where are you from
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What
age did you start triathlon
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Talk
about training – how many sessions / hours per week
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Short
term goals
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Long
term goals
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Why
you enjoy the sport
We didn't have the best equipment to record the voice over so I had to learn hoe to enhance the audio by removing background noise and increasing clarity. I did this by watching more tutorials on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN4WNG-XYcw&t=203s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku6ZZ8yhuls&t=365s
Considering that the video had to be social media friendly, I added captions. This way people can
understand the story without having to listen to it. This is useful when scrolling trough social media without earphone and in public spaces. It is also suited to Facebook's new algorithm, where videos play automatically. I did this using this youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ku6ZZ8yhuls&t=365s
The final step was to colour grade the film. Colour grading is the process of improving the appearance of an image for presentation in different environments on different devices. Various attributes of an image such as contrast, colour, saturation, detail, black level, and white point may be enhanced whether for motion pictures, videos, or still images. I wanted the colour grading to bring out the blues in the water and cool down the tones of the footage shot under the warm track lights.
I learnt how to colour grade using youtube tutorials.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYud_W7Ou9E&t=570s
As I was short on time and new to colour grading I decided to invest in some LUTS. LUTS stands for Look Up Tables. This refers to the table of numbers that apply a colour transformation to an image of video. They are particularly good at providing consistency, especially with film shot at different times of the day, at different locations and with different equipment.
I used Peter McKinnon's Package as he had a range available to purchase as a bundle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fKDb4JnUmc&t=234s
without / with LUTS
without / with LUTS
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