On The Spot Post-Production

On The Spot - Post Production

This was definitely the most time-consuming project out of all of them this year. Besides that, however, it was a lot of fun getting to film things outside of the classroom and put some own creative spin on my own work. 

Choosing The Right Music

I was inspired by a few things from the videos shown in class. For one thing, I learned just how important sound is as the actual video itself. The sound is able to captivate the audience by following a certain tone that is easy for the viewer to understand. This was the hardest thing for me to do as it required a lot of thinking on my part in order to captivate this same feeling- I couldn't just slap any random music and call it a day. The search for the right kind of music was the most annoying part of this project for me because of this. I would play some songs found on bensound over my project, but none of them worked out. A silly thing I found out was that Jazz songs actually fitted well in the background of my video, but it didn't make sense for me to put Jazz sounds behind a video about Asian culture. With that in mind, I decided to leave bensound and scour the internet for Asian-themed songs.

The introduction to my OTS I thought was very bubbly and fun, but the rest of my OTS was very calm throughout. I thought that some type of calm music with "pops" would be perfect, which is exactly what lofi themed songs captivate. I stumbled upon a royalty-free song "Flute of the Traveler" by Harris Heller, which created a suitable feeling for my video. The introduction to the song synced perfectly with the beginning of my on-the-spot, and the rest of the song didn't attract much attention, which fit towards the calm parts of my OTS. Though there are probably better options out there, I was very satisfied with my choice.

Learning Premiere Pro

The second hardest part of the project was definitely trying to figure out how to use premiere pro. I still refer to myself as an amateur, as this year was actually my first time ever using it. I am glad to have learned a lot about the software beforehand from previous projects, but I still had to do some of my own research with the help of classmates and the internet. I found out about a couple of useful features such as copying attributes, changing the location of transitions, and safe margins.

Success/Difficulties

There were many things premiere pro would not let you do until you change a setting (the location of transitions being one of them), making the tinkering of transition settings very helpful to me. Before finding this out, there was difficulty in putting transitions in between 2 clips- It would just snap on the outside of one of them. This made the transition look terrible until I discovered the setting, making it a huge success.

As already stated above, finding the right music was a huge dilemma. Though I succeeded in finding the right music in the end, there are some things I could've done better. This would include putting more thought into what I wanted the tone of my OTS to be before filming it. I could have written some notes on the side of my storyboard that helped me decide the type of tone I wanted to captivate the audience.