As the final project for my Adobe Premiere Pro course, I created a five-minute documentary introducing viewers to the concept of “digging” for vinyl records, and why it’s such an important part of record-collecting culture. The goal was to explain this niche hobby to an outside audience through real voices and real environments.
I wrote the script, filmed and conducted interviews, captured B-roll, recorded the voiceover, cleaned audio in Adobe Audition, and edited the entire piece in Premiere Pro. Interviews were filmed in a local record store and at a record collectors’ meetup in a pub, featuring a store staff member and three collectors. Music was sourced through Creative Commons licenses and used to help build energy through the story. Significant post-production work was required to clean noisy audio from the busy meetup environment and correct poor lighting using colour adjustments and LUTs for consistency.
Shot entirely solo, this project pushed me to solve real production and post-production challenges while learning how to shape a narrative from unscripted interviews and ambient footage. The instructor praised the storytelling and subject choice, awarding the project an A+, and noted the strength of the narrative structure and editing choices.