Hello,
Thank you for viewing my final video for this unit. Since my topic this semester has been revolved around fitness, I thought it would be interesting to show what my day in the gym looks like. I was going to incorporate healthy foods, different muscle groups, and workouts – but I thought this might be a little too complicated. Leading me to choose just one of those topics.
I tried to make my video very personal to me, which is why I included footage of me actually working out, as opposed to showing clips that are available online for anyone to watch. I also decided to add a few clips of my friend, I thought having a male in there would appeal more to my male viewers while I appealed to my female viewers.
My video starts off with me introducing what I will be talking about, followed by three exercises; deadlifting, flies, and a chest press. I thought it was important to include do’s and don’ts, just in case my viewers decided to try these workouts I wanted them to be as safe as possible. Before anyone starts a workout, they should know exactly what to do, as well as what not to do. I feel as if it is almost more important to know what you can’t do in an exercise to avoid hurting yourself.
Posting my draft to the video and hearing my peer’s responses helped me quite a bit. I took some advice, while also ignoring some advice. The most common response I got was to raise my voice and make it less monotone, which led me to add a video of me introducing the video at the beginning with a smile to make it more focused on my voice, while also re-recording my entire audio. I did not want to come across as monotone so in my new recording I made sure to talk very loud and energetic. A piece of advice that I chose not to take out was the audio from the gym, I understand what my peers were saying when they said that the audio was focusing away from my voice, but it is important to hear the weights and the rhythm at the gym. This led to me to add a part in my audio saying, “If you listen carefully you will hear that the plates touch the ground at the same time, which is what you want to hear while deadlifting. Sometimes I will take out my headphones to ensure that I can hear this through my whole set”.
Navigating around premiere was a lot easier the second time around, creating my draft helped me learn the site a little more, as well as looking back at the tutorials helped me quite a bit as well. After some time, I finally accomplished my video. I hope you can see the hard work I put into it and I hope you enjoy!
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