editing workshop 1

IN THE studio (01/10/15)

Last lesson we were learning about how to edit together the videos we had made the week before. We were using a programme called Adobe Premiere Pro to help us do this. We were given a quick tutorial to begin with on how the programme works and general terminology we need to know in order to work the programme efficiently.

We began by getting into pairs or groups of three and watching the videos from last week so that we could get to know our footage. These clips are kept in folders called bins.This was so that when it came to putting it all together we were aware of the kind of shots we had and could easily and quickly manipulate the footage. We then saved copies of the footage we think we might want to use so that we don’t mess up the original data if we decide to change something.

After watching the clips a few times we learnt how to cut them to the footage that we wanted. To do this you click where you want the clip to start from and press CTRL+I for IN, and to cut the clip so it stops where you want it to stop you press CTRL+O for OUT. We then drag this clip onto the video timeline where we can put in more clips and create a whole video. You must always put the clip you wish to be played on top of the previous clip as the programme will always play the highest clip.

We repeated this step with all of our chosen clips until we had made a full scene that we were happy with. We had one issue with our clips which was that one of our extreme close up shots was very short and so when we cut from a mid-shot to the extreme close up it didn’t quite look right.

This lesson was so helpful as this is the programme we will be using throughout the year so to get a basic understanding so soon is very helpful and means we can get to grips with the more detailed stuff later on without having to learn about the basics as well as that.