In my final draft video, I decided to keep the same tone as my audio story. I enjoy the ambient, and intention feeling.
My timeline for this project was nuts, I used about 7 tracks each for both audio and video. I decided to have more interview style with alot of B roll, because I feel like it heightens what I am saying. I originally filmed myself for about 5 minutes just talking about where my head is at being so close to the event, but cut it down to just a minute and some change.
The days I decided to film were very bright and made the video very overexposed, so I add 2 adjustment layers. One was for all the B-roll and it simply was just a blend mood preset. The other was a full on color correction to the clips of me talking.
I decided not to use transitions much, because it would not have fit with the song I used, I did add one in the beginning. I went with a luma fade, because i was having difficulty trying to move from a river flyover to the hills. I figured a pretty fast and abrupt transition was the only way to go.
I tried to keep the video fairly simple, in appearance. I am a big fan of crazy timelines, but the final product appearing to have no crazy edits.
I used some text just towards the beginning to give some back story into the triathlon, I am participating in. Unfortunately due to time restraint, I did not add some at the end. I think it looks great without though.
So enough with the tech talk, enjoy the video and all my hard work.
Try-athlete 