To continue down our adobe journey I decided that I would stick with the archery theme that I used in my audio story and translate that into this process.

I thought that it would be interesting to take the camera and video a short little edited video of how an evening of shooting my bow usually goes.

For this I began to compile a list of shots that I thought would help to enhance the environment of the activity as well as include the important parts of shooting and how I go about that. For this I had to capture footage of all parts of the evening not just the one shot of me shooting my bow. So, I began to make a list of shots I would like to show me getting to the final point of shooting my bow. Luckily, I had a camera that I was able to use to get high quality video of these shots. To begin I wanted to get a video of walking down the hall and opening the door into the garage. Then opening my case, grabbing my bow, attaching attachments, going outside grabbing target, and so on. I think that I was able to capture these well in my video

One hard thing that I experienced was that I did not have my tripod with me, so I was consistently struggling to keep my camera at the right spot and angle to get the shot I wanted while not letting my camera fall.

After I competed all my shooting and list of shots that I wanted to capture I took them inside and started the editing process on adobe premiere pro. This all went smooth, I used various techniques and angles while shooting to create a picture in the viewers mind as if they were there, also incorporating slow motion and cutting to arrowing hitting the target helped to round my video.

Lastly, I applied effects to the beginning and end of the video, as well as adding music to the background to eliminate dead noise in the background of the video and keep the video moving along. I found this background music on Mixter with it being labeled as “black snow”. I reduced the volume levels very low because I did not want it to intrude on the peacefulness of the video.

After receiving a bit of feedback from classmates and some people outside of the class I changed some things by including some transitions and such, however after doing so I did not like the feel of the new video because I am continuing with the natural theme and this seemed like to much production for a video like this. Therefor I did not end up making any substantial changes from my draft, which is okay because of the time I spend on the initial draft to make it nice, but still like how it turned out!

Overall, I had a lot of fun doing this project. I think it was cool to learn how to make little videos like these using premiere pro and I think I will be making more.