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Charli Winston Digital Media Facilitation

Assignment: Video Diary Entry

Create a 3-5-minute video about your engagement with food in the context of sustenance using
Adobe Premiere Pro CC. Your video canAssignment:
be presented in Diary
Video the form
Entryof a documentary or in the form of a
visual diary entry. Your video should include both visual and audio elements. The purpose of the video is
to capture your creativity and thoughts about issues related to sustenance. Use this as an opportunity to
creatively express your thoughts while exhibiting skills learned from using Premiere Pro.

The Big Idea- Sustenance

Sustenance is defined as food and drink regarded as a source of strength; nourishment.

As the population grows and our resources deplete it is important to recognize how we retrieve
and use food to provide nourishment to ourselves. We should also consider how consumer’s nutritional
needs are met if accustomed to a specific diet. During food recalls, what are consumers to do when they
depend on the food industry to produce quality food for sustenance? Should consumers start growing
and raising their own food? The idea of sustenance allows one to explore their relationship with “food
and drink” by bringing awareness to how food and drink” is produced and distributed.

Topics to consider:

Reflect on and investigate:

• What foods and drinks you consume? How your selection of food and drinks provide
strength and nourishment for you?
• Do you know where your food comes from? Have researched the food industry?
• Think about the ways you acquire and prepare food. Where do you get your food?
• Think about how you or your family uses food for sustenance
• Think about your preferences when acquiring and eating food
▪ Do you prefer organic food? What type of diet do you follow?
▪ Have you heard of GMO’s? Seed patents?
▪ How does the government shutdown affect food in the U.S?
▪ What are your thoughts about agriculture and farming?
▪ How do you feel about the meat industry?
▪ What are your thoughts about growing your own food?
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Charli Winston Digital Media Facilitation

Materials needed:

• Computer with Adobe Premiere Pro CC software

• External hard drive- to store audio and visual clips
• Video footage can be personal recordings and/or video clips from online sources (check
copyrights)
• Audio can be personal recordings and/or audio clips from online sources (check copyrights).
Music, sound effects, or dialogue can be used (check copyrights)
• Device to record video and audio (if needed)

Instructions for creating video diary entry:

Step 1. Search for and/or create video clips that demonstrate your understanding of sustenance and how
it relates to you. Free media can be found at Pexels.com and Archive.org, feel free to find and use other
ways to retrieve media. Download media, if given the option download as MP4 or H.264. Make sure to
check copyright laws on any media used that does not belong to and give credit accordingly.

• If videos do not download properly, screen record the video and save it
▪ To record screen on Mac open QuickTime Player, select file, and then select new screen
recording
▪ To record with internal microphone, click the arrow next to the record button and select
internal microphone
▪ You can crop the area you would like recorded by pushing the record button and then
use your mouse to select the desired area on the screen

Step 2. Search for and/or record audio clips that will be included in your video. Download media. Make
sure to check copyright laws on any media used that does not belong to and give credit accordingly.

Step 3. Once you have all the media you would like to use, open Adobe Premiere and set up project (See
Premier Pro CC reference guide).

Step 4. Click and drag media from download folder into the Project area in Premier.

Step 5. Begin editing to create your 3-5-minute video. Use tools to cut and paste media as well as create
effects such as transitions between clips. Refer to the reference guide to get step-by-step instructions
for editing techniques.

Step 6. Upon completion convert file to Mp4 to be uploaded and viewed.

• Go to File, select Export, then select Media

• Change format to H.264
• Check boxes for exporting Media and Audio then “Output Name” to name your MP4 file and save
on computer.it on your computer. Click on “Save” then “Export”.