Construction of Film: Adobe Premiere Pro

To edit my film I used Adobe Premiere Pro to create the main body, this consisted of a lot of use of the vast array of tools available in the software.

Here I have used the cross dissolve transition in Adobe Premier Pro, for a prolonged period of time, the transition is simply put into use by dragging and dropping to the desired area, and here I used it to create a montage scene, to portray a longer period of time than the timing in the video allowed me.

Here is an example of the amount of layers of film I used in Premiere Pro to edit with, using this number of layers allowed me to quickly realize which take of a shot would work best, and also allowed me to cut tightly to the end of the last clip.

Here is the audio timeline, before I had layed down any footage, as you can see Premiere Pro gives a clear visual representation of the audio track and where different parts of the song come in and out.

Here I used a transition called additive dissolve, which is basically a brighter version of cross dissolve, offering a bright glare as it transcends.

Here I played around with effects, to see just what I could do with the program, I did not use this effect however, but figuring out what was possible in the program was a crucial part of the construction ofmy video

Here, again I played around with effects, however did not use this one either.

Here is an example of me rendering my file. It was important for me to do this frequently as otherwise the program ran slowly and had trouble matching visuals to audio.

Here you can see me playing around with the speed of footage, speeding this shot up slightly so that it would fit in better with the beat of the song.

Using the cross dissolve transition some more...

Here I used the luma key tool to give the image a much darker and dirtier feeling to what I was able to do in real life, I feel that this worked well and was crucial to maintaining the look I wanted for my video.

Here you can see another example of me using the layers of video to my advantage, allowing me to find and maintain the right placing for my footage.

Here, at the end of my video I am using the fade to black transition to give the ending of the film a sense of closure.

Here are the main tools used in Adobe Premiere Pro, the select, grab and cut tools being the only ones that I really used. The cut tool is used to cut footage wherever wanted, slicing files in two at the desired point. The select tool is used to select this footage before, and the grab tool is used to move footage around via the use of drag and drop.