For this project I chose to highlight the things that people love the most about traveling in Italy. For the project I used a combination of interview recordings with one of my friends who recently spent two months in Italy, as well as video I shot during my time there this summer, and audio recordings of my father that I did earlier this year. I wanted to create a sense of flow between the ideas and form a connection between the things that people love most and value most about these nations. I chose to open with the narration provided through the recording of my dad, talking about the pace of life and how different it is in Europe compared to the US and I chose to have that narration going over a video clip of the Italian countryside and the water taxi ride into Venice- some of the most peaceful and relaxed things I have ever experienced.

One thing I ended up changing between the draft and this final version of my project were a few of the clips I used in the video. For example, I chose to swap the second clip in the video and add one onto the end of the video. The clip that got swapped out was originally one showing the boat ride into Venice from the main land but I chose to swap it with a clip showing the grand canal from a canal side restaurant. I made this change because the visuals in the new clip I have in there are much better and contain brighter colors and a better view of Venice and of the beauty of the Grand Canal. I also made the decision to add a clip to the end of the video after my dad’s voice fades out. This is one of my favorite clips from Italy, it’s a clip of a gondolier singing and dancing during a gondola trip through the canals. I chose to include it because I felt that it sums up everything that is special about this place and the people who live there. It is all authentic and over the top and unique, the things you see traveling are things you would never see anywhere else and I felt that this short ending clip worked to show that.

In the editing process I ended up having to redownload all my raw footage and clips to fix the quality of the video and it did end up working. Unfortunately, once exported out of premier something happened with the program that messed up the quality of the videos anyway. I went through all the steps of trying different file types when I exported it and going through the steps given to me by Adobe support to try and fix it, but nothing worked. I was however able to fully rectify the issues I was having with audio in my initial video draft. With the redownloading of all of my footage the audio quality came back on the interview clips and I was able to have strong audio from Alex’ interview that better matched the volume from the voiceover from my dad’s interview.

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