During the year, I was tasked with editing together different pieces of practical work that I created, the software I used throughout this course was Adobe Premiere Pro. To start this unit off I researched the history of editing software while slowly moving on looking at the software I would be using and how to use it to do this is looked at different YouTube tutorials and online help as well as help from peers. Using what I had learnt I created a number of projects for the completion of the course.
The first practical editing tasks were the four hour film challenges we did to help us learn the proper use of premier pro and how to edit under a strict time limit, this helped improve my editing skills along with the time mange mat skills for the practical side of things. For this, I created 4 short films shot and edited in 4 hours, in personal opinion they weren’t the best but helped me to develop the needed skills and learning of using the software. My first short film I was tasked with using different camera angles in a unique way to help me develop my skills and to get me to think about different shots and how they would be edited together create a unique perspective for the viewer. The next short film I developed was based around Jump Cuts, we chose to use the Wii Music that is played in the background on the console. In this video, I edited the jump cuts on the beat helping me develop my skill editing in a unique way and also looking at editing to audio tracks. The third short film I created was editing based, in this short film I had to use footage found online to edit together a music video, this short film drastically developed my editing skills allowing me to be as creative as I wanted and not limiting me with footage that I could shoot. and the final was a challenge to create a silent film, looking at using grains and filters to create a look of films that were seen in the 1920s.
Other than the main set of challenges I also used premier pro for the Music Video and the New wave film, for the Music video I used my knowledge of grains and editing to the beat from the challenges and created a somewhat successful edit with the footage I had, even though I was lacking in footage to edit. the new wave film I looked at films from the new wave era and the style ion editing and tried to implement the same techniques editing the footage into chapters. as well as this I looked at a practical way of organising my footage into folders and naming the clips as well as seeing which of the clips were useable, because of this organisation editing was a lot easier as I wasn't trudging through hours of footage to try and find the clip that I wanted or needed.
Form my final project the editing was planed for however wasn't able to be done along with the practical side of the unit due to the lockdown in effect, because of this I couldn't use what I had learnt to show an improvement upon the mistakes that were made in previous projects.
in conclusion I certainly improved my editing as I started off with a basic understanding of how to edit and some of the features I could do with the effects, but over the corse of the year doing the little challenges helped me to broaden my view of what I could do with the software and gave me the chance to experiment and play with other effects, because of this development I have gained an interest in editing and when I take my education further I will be able to do a lot more with what I have available to me, and create a better product with any project I am tasked with.
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