My First Premiere Pro editing exercise

My First Premiere Pro editing exercise

Learning to use a camera

Although I learnt most of my camera skills last year there were a few new things I learnt this year, for example how to configure the iso and shutter speed correctly. I also learnt how to use auto focus properly. I also learnt how to get a shallow depth of field by adjusting the iso.

We also learnt about the exposure triangle (aperture, iso and shutter speed) and how to correctly expose a shot.

After we got familiar with the camera and how to use it we went out and shot some footage, none of the shots we filmed were complex in any way, they were all quite basic, this was because we were focusing more on the editing side of things. After we finished filming all the shots we had to we imported them onto a mac and organised then into folders to make editing easier. Also when we created the adobe premiere file we created different bins to put the different types of files into. This helped a lot for us to keep everything sorted and tidy. It is very important to do this when editing.

Then we chose which shots we were going to use in our video, we cut them down to the bits we wanted and put them on the timeline, after  this we added some transitions to the video. We sound a royalty free song to use on the video (we still had to credit the composer). It was very easy to add the music to the timeline, it was very similar to adding video, Cutting it to the length we wanted it to be and added to the timeline.` After the video was finished we added a title screen and some scrolling credits at the end.


After the video was fulling completed we exported it in 1080p in a format compatible with YouTube.