Created using Adobe Premier
2023
This short documentary film aimed to offer some insight into the current state of fitness. My role within this group project was to be the editor and gather b-roll footage. A group of students and I worked together to create this documentary to show the dark side of fitness: the lies and deceptive information spread by fitness influencers through social media platforms such as YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok. Not all fitness influencers are bad, but many are mainly motivated by profit, leading them to promote products without proper warnings on damage or side effects. We hope the film will push the audience to fact-check information they find on social media. One of the challenges we came up against was finding a fitness professional to participate in the documentary. He wanted to remain anonymous, so we mainly used voice-over and a little clip of him at the gym. We also had a hard time editing this documentary since it was everyone’s first time going through this process. But in the end, we managed to create a documentary we are proud of and learned a lot from.
