WR150 Capstone Video
Spring 2020
Capstone video for WR150 with Dr. Anna Panzscyzk about the visual and auditory aesthetic of the film Her (2013) by Spike Jonze
Abstract:
WR150 is a writing course meant to push students to utilize digital multimedia as a way to convey information. My choice for the capstone project was a video, made in Adobe Premiere Pro.
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I learned a lot about Premiere Pro having never used it before, but I was familiar with other video editing programs like iMovie.
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I finished the class with an A and I credit a lot of my final grade to the effort I put into making this project high quality. This project happens to be one of my favorite things I've made for school, partly because I love this movie, and partly because I think it came out stellar.
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Overall I feel this project came out extremely well because I was able to flesh out a topic I really enjoy: the audio-visual aesthetic of films. I was able to produce a video with finesse and this project serves as an example of how I can adapt and use new tools to create high quality products.
Design:
"The Audio-Visual Aesthetic of Her (2013) by Spike Jonze" created by Justin Le (2020)
Through years of watching various films and videos on YouTube, and having edited a handful of videos for classes over the years, learning Premiere Pro was relatively easy.
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When it comes to creating something in general, I usually start with a vision of the end product, and look down at my tools to see how to get there. In this case, Premiere Pro was my toolbox, and if I had any glaring questions on where to find certain to tools or what things did, I would look to Google for help.
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I had to create a script about this topic of audio-visual aesthetics pertaining to the movie Her (2013), which happens to be one of my favorites. Then, create a video around the script to exemplify my points about the movie. I strung songs from the movie soundtrack through the entire video, and most of the visuals for this video are from the movie.
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I paid a lot of attention to which songs fit what kind of tone my voice and the script were creating, and matched the visuals to that same tone. The whole video was meant to ebb and flow with the script instead of clash with what I was saying and confuse the viewer. Overall I think it came out extremely high quality.