Finally, I had to source audio. At first I was unsure what to use, but after some advice from Andy I decided to use the original sound from the gig videos. Some parts were unusable, so I took them from other videos I had, or in one case, a live performance of the same band I found from some dude’s phone on YouTube. I edited the sound to make it fit, then used my super useful audio knowledge I got from my super useful audio production degree (hahaaaa) to add crossfades, phase, reverb and delay effects. Luckily these are all built in to Premiere. I’m fairly happy with the result, it certainly creates a trippy, ethereal layer to the band footage. I do like the way the video came out, especially the bleed and contrast effects. Having never used Premiere before this unit, I can now use it quite comfortably, which is pretty great. I attempted to walk a fine line between “experimental” and “enabling every effect with a checkbox” and think I mainly succeeded in creating a coherent theme. Although, I think the time constraints worked against me, and it might have been exponentially more rad if I’d used separate videos to showcase each transition and effect.
