Construction-Video Editing

I went to to edit my video in Adobe Premiere Pro. To do this I places all of my clips into the media box, to establish which clips are good the use. Many clips had the be cut down a bit to get rid of the start or the break down a long video etc to pick out a good point.

For example, the video clip i started with was my starting seqeunce that panned over the charcaters desk. This video was originally 14.14 seconds, due to taking time getting the focus right before i started the music and recording more then needed. However, as seen below, i used the in/out sequence technique to create a snippet of the video to 5.13 seconds. I then dragged this into my sequence of my video, with my music, and started to repeat this action until i had all my clips out together in the right order, going in the order of the storyboard.

 I then created transitions of fading between each clip. To do this i went to the effects page and into the "Video transitions" subheading. i then looked into what each transitions did and how it made the clips smoothly run together. For most clips, i used dissolving transitions like "additive dissolve" "cross dissolve" and "film dissolve". However for certain clips, like the flashback, I needed to use different transitions to show that the storyline is differnt and is a different day, so the audience doesn't get confused.

To do this, i used the "Dip to black" transition when the photo ablum clip goes into the flash back picture. I then used the "Dip to white" to show the flashbakc ending. I used this technique a few times in my video editing, whenever the video went back and forward to the getting ready and the 'party scene'.

In some clips I had to edit the colour or the curves etc to make the exposure better or make the brightness better. The most effective colour change i used was the flashback being black and white. In order to do this, I went to the effect page again and suched black&white in the search bar.  Then the filter came up in the image control heading, as shown in the screenshot. I dragged this effect on top of the video to make it black and white.


















The screenshot below shows how this was effective as it creates an clear differnence between present and past. It makes the clip look more interesting and keeps the audience gribbed on.

My next step was creating a spilt screen. To do this i created a new sequence. i then dfollowee the next steps.

1. I imported the two clips into the same sequence.
2. I kept the video i wanted on the left on the bottom, and the one to bring in on the top.
3. I went into effects and looked for the crop effect.
4. Dragged this on to the top footage.
5. Went up to effect controls and find the crop effect. Went to the left property and activated the animation by clicking on the stop watch.
6. I then moved it forward about 10 frames. Bring the left to 50%. This will bring it in half way.
7. Right click on the keyframes
8. Finally i went to the effects of the bottom footage, up to motion, and then position. Started the animation at the beginning of the transition. Moved forward to when the animation stops, and center the footage in it’s new box.

Lastly, i created my title to go on opening sequence. To do this i created a new sequnec and went to legacy title. I Then added my "Sue me" writing in a bright pink colour and made this centra.
I then dragged this onto the opening clip in the sequence so it was on the V2.
This made the writing on the original video background. I then went onto making the title slide in and out.