Premiere Final Video Story

In this video, I decided to teach two pole dancing spins that I teach for UREC at my job. These are two of the more advanced spins that I am allowed to teach, and although they might look easy they take a lot more practice than anyone would think. My blog is based on unique styles of fitness. Previously I focused on lyra, or aerial hoop, and now I want to show pole dancing. I chose to make this an instructional video, but please don’t try to do it without a certified instructor present.

I was influenced to do this particular video because I teach pole dancing every day. It’s something I am familiar with, and something I think a lot of people don’t understand. It, like all forms of dance, can be anything you want it to be. It doesn’t only have to be “sexy”. It’s a creative choice. My design significance is that pole dancing is a workout. It’s a very difficult workout that has stumped every body builder that’s ever stepped into my class. In other words, pole dance is a unique style of fitness,  just as my blog is based on.

Two of my friends filmed me after class one day from two different angles. I then took all four videos and placed them in premiere. By double clicking on each video and then trimming it, I was able to place the content I wanted from each video into a sequence. After achieving almost what I set out to do, I recorded a new audio track after realizing audio hadn’t come through very well over the original recording, which is why I appear to be talking in the video. I then cut the audio to make it fit with the video, and removed any misspoken words. After I found a song on freesound.org that I found to be adequate and added it in to fill in the blank spaces in the audio track. I turned down the volume of the music by adjusting the audio gain.  I then added in crossfades, and a fade to black at the end of the video.

For the final draft, I ended up using the draft I had originally created without any edits. When I went to edit, I was unable to edit the file. It said it was damaged and could not be opened even after trying a couple of different computers. Without being able to edit, I was unable to make revisions. My peers had suggested adding in a title, conclusion page, and creating smoother transitions between clips. None of these suggestions were accomplished.

Here is the link to the freesounds.org song I felt was adequate:

https://freesound.org/people/rescuedsheep/sounds/449245/