Final

For my final project I have chosen to record what a day of fishing is like from my perspective and how I approach bass fishing.  Although some days are just undeniably better than others, there are certainly a lot of assessments and adjustments that must be made to have a successful fishing trip.  With this topic in mind, I decided to choose three platforms: Photoshop, Premiere Rush, and Audition to put my project together.  The most difficult thing about planning production was capturing useful footage.  Unfortunately, I could not catch anything while on video, but I was able to edit pictures in to make the video flow better.  I took several types of video, some being from a fixed angle and others where I pan.  Some of the more difficult videos were taken from my perspective while I am taking casts.  While filming I made sure to not only record myself, but to observe what was going on around me.  I was fortunate enough to get some good videos of a blue heron that was scouting the shorelines for baitfish but was unsuccessful in filming a muskrat that was scurrying around.  I decided that it was best to save any explanations I had for what was going on during my trip for a voiceover.  It was an extremely windy day and I thought it would be clearer if I recorded the audio after the fact.  Upon capturing the necessary footage, I wanted to create a collage that would act as a good introduction for the video.  I took a screenshot of the blue heron and uploaded the image into Photoshop.  I then took some relevant images from the internet and cropped them onto the pond to make it a little bit more interesting.  I decided that it was best to create the video first and record audio accordingly.  I uploaded what I had into Premiere Rush and first cut parts that I felt were unnecessary.  I then ordered them in a way that I felt would be easiest to explain and created transitions that made the most sense around the audio I was intending to add.  I also slowed down some of the footage because I felt it captured some of the moments better.  I separated and deleted any audio that I did not want from the original videos and added a song to play in the background.  I then went through and recorded audio clips which I edited in audition and uploaded to premiere as separate clips.  I was able to use premiere to cut out dead space in the audio and use the “match loudness function to make sure that there was a uniform volume for each separate clip.  I wanted to keep the song a constant throughout the video, so I cut the song in a way that I could make it quieter during the sections in which I was talking.  I then took the pictures of some of the bass that I caught and inserted them after I explain the lures that I used to catch them.  The explanations go over the lures that I use, why I use them, and what knot I use most of the time.