Editing: Adobe Premier Pro

Editing Day 1





Location: Bridgend College
Date: 12/01/2018
Group members present: Hannah Martin, Jade Dibble and Caitlin Elward







Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the first editing day with my group due to commitments for one of my other A Level subjects. However, I was briefed by my group on their return to school about what they had done, and they had shown me a clip of what they had put together.

The software that we will be using to edit our music video is 'Adobe Premier Pro' which, as a group, we have previous experience using. We used this software to edit our AS thriller opening sequence, and therefore, we could work this software to use very basic editing techniques. We employed the help of one of the editing experts at the college to instruct us on how to use some of the more complicated editing features, and we hope to be able to use them in our piece. For example, we were instructed on how to isolate a single colour in a shot, which we thought could effective in terms of highlighting our protagonist's emotional struggle.

The first editing session primarily involved creating a basic foundation of the video, by ordering the shots in the timeline of the programme. They used this session to cut down footage, so that only the shots that we needed were selected. This was a time consuming job, due to having ample footage, and multiple takes of some shots, to ensure we had choice when it came to editing. Due to the amount of footage we had acquired at this point, they found that it took quite a while to import it all onto the mac that they were using to edit on.

The basic outline of the order of shots that was created acted as a guide for us to evaluate what footage we needed to obtain in future filming sessions if it was necessary. It also provided a template that we could experiment with, and if we were not happy with the changes we made, we could revert back to this to reconsider how we would work to alter and improve it.


Further Editing on Adobe Premier Pro...

We visited the college on one further occasion after our first trip, in order to make more progress in the editing of our piece. However, we were told shortly after our second visit that we would no longer be able to visit the college to use their facilities due to health and safety issues, and lack of completed risk assessments. This proved to be a challenge for our group, as none of us owned the 'Adobe Premier Pro' software, so we could not carry on editing using this. We were forced to find different editing software that we had access to, in order to complete the edit of our music video, so we decided we would transition to iMovie. The need for transition prompted another issue for ur group, which was that we were unable to convert our current draft of the video from a Premier Pro file to one that could be edited on iMovie. This meant that we had to start our edit from scratch again, which was a set back to us. Thankfully, we had exported our draft as an MP4, so we could view what we had edited so far, and we were then able to follow this as a template to recreate it on iMovie.