For my final project I decided to improve my initial draft based on my classmates feedback and also my personal critiques. I really enjoyed the way my draft turned out so I felt too many revisions would disrupt the theme of the video and the message I was trying to send. My influences for the video were based on NFL videos that show the entirety of an athlete’s career and the athlete gets to share their personal take on it. I have grown up watching these kind of videos and they had always inspired me so I felt it appropriate to make one of my own.

The significance of the two different scenes I placed within the video each have their own meaning that tie the video together. The video of the lake is to add a dramatic effect that makes the video feel more personal. The football clips are real clips of me playing and I felt they were necessary to help drive home the message I was talking about. My design process consisted of making sure all the clips were cut exactly the length of my preference and to make sure they matched the audio that was going on in the background. Then I added transitions between the clips to help with the continuity of the story. I made sure the transitions were gradual and slow to make sure the viewer can keep track of what scene is being playing.

Finding the clips themselves was relatively easy because I own the rights to the film of me playing football. For the lake shot I knew I wanted to add a scenic clip so the shot of the lake tied perfectly into my video. I enjoyed using Adobe Premiere more than any of the other programs because I feel it has the room for the most potential alongside with Photoshop. My project turned out the way I hoped it would and I felt as if the message I had in mind was clear.