AD5800 - Starting my 60s video

I had a clear idea how I wanted my 60s video to look like, I have been really inspired by the style of "Incredible India" in which they combine music, background noise and very short cuts.

So I planned my editing ahead in order to make it easier to organise it on Adobe Premiere:

Every time I have finished to shoot each artisans I went through all the video clips, named and organised them.

So I created a B-roll folder where each clips was named with what was happening in the clip (like hitting, weaving, getting ready, finishing...).

Then I have found a suitable background music that had a good variety of rhythm patterns and dragged it on my timeline.

I moved all the clips on Premiere as well and I started to do rough cuts and move them on the timeline.

I watched them and little by little I made shorter cuts and started to move the clips according to the rough position they may have covered in the sequence I planned.

At this stage my video lasted about 25 minutes.

I kept doing this process of cutting and moving and listen to the music in the background until my video lasted 1.06 minutes (max length).

After it I adjusted the audio levels, put some keyframes and balanced the colours.

The trickiest part has been working with very short cuts and matching the music. I am very happy with the result but I am concerned about it follows the guidelines. I think it is a suitable video for a broadcast but it is rather an "inspirational" video than a news video. I will show it to Paul and see what he thinks.

In case I need to do some changes to the video, I have read some articles about the benefits of crafting for mental health and I wrote some scripts that I may include in the video. Since in my 3 minutes film Norah talks a lot about how the process of making it is good for us, I believe that the two video would be good connected .

Those are the scripts I may include:

When we are involved in creativity, we feel that we are living more fully than during the rest of life

Crafting activities offer a nonpharmaceutical way to regulate strong emotions such as anger or prevent irrational thoughts

Crafting is also unique in its ability to involve many different areas of your brain. It can work your memory and attention span while involving your visuospatial processing, creative side and problem-solving abilities.

The psychological benefits perceived from the creative practice includes :

relaxation; relief from stress; a sense of accomplishment; connection to tradition; increased happiness; reduced anxiety; enhanced confidence, as well as cognitive abilities: improved memory, concentration and ability to think through problems.