Draft Video Story

My video story was a depiction of my journey through gymnastics. I wanted to use footage of my awards and leotards throughout the years, some home videos of me doing gymnastics at a young age, and some personal interviews. I feel all this together helped paint the picture to viewers of what my journey has been like, and how far I have come in this sport.

I started off by recording videos panning through my medals and leotards, because I knew these would be good transitions that also helped show a piece of my story. Then I recorded two long interviews, one about my younger days in gymnastics and one about my current life with gymnastics. Finally, I found old home videos as well as current videos of my gymnastics and downloaded them for the video. I categorized the videos into bins, then cut each of the videos to the length I would be using. I would play the video, add an in point and an out point, then when I was happy with the clip I would use the Command+U shortcut to make it it’s own clip. I did this with all the videos until I had each of them at the proper length for the video.

The video starts with me panning through my medals with some of the interview clips playing in the background. I made sure the video of the medals was on V1, so it would overwrite the interview. I wanted the videos to tell the story with my words used as a background. I then cut to some old home videos of me as a young gymnast. I wanted to add this for a few reasons. Partially so I could show how young I was when I started, but also to show my transformation. After these videos I cut to the leotards through the years transition, and then start interviews about gymnastics in my life now. My newer college videos play over my voice, to show how far I have come in gymnastics. The final part of the video is my favorite. I ended the interview at a video of me dismounting the beam at a major competition. I had the noise come in immediately after my interview. You hear my team explode with excitement, and it fades out. I used the points on the volume bar to make points for the volume to start immediately after the interview, and then fade out. This created the ending I wanted where I talked about my team in the interview, and you heard them support me immediately after.