Process of Editing

When starting our first shoot of filming, we came to school and uploaded our film onto our selected Mac computer. We used Adobe Premiere Pro CS4 to edit our film, to create an successful music video. We attached our camera to the computer and uploaded our filming to the desktop. We then imported our footage onto the Adobe programme. 

By making sure our film had successfully imported, we could see the footage saved in the left hand corner of the screen. After we saved our filming, we had to import our song. We dragged our song into the timeline, now all we had to do was start editing. 

At the very start of this project, Sammi and I had already sorted out where certain footage was going to be placed in the song, making it effective. So we started with looking at our plan, and selecting and cutting our footage. There were many tools on the bottom right corner, including a select tool and an razor tool.
These two were the tools we used alot! We had to select the razor tool and cut from the beginning of our the certain scene we want and then cut it again when we want the footage to finish, which was rather easy. When cutting these precise scene we used the 'select' tool to drag the footage to the certain place in the song. 

Once we had our footage and music on, it was time to cut the footage to the music. To do this we had to use different tools. The tool we used most was the selection tool which is the cursor. The magnifine glass is to zoom in which we used a few times. As you can see in the pictures, there are many tools but the one used most to actually cut the footage was the razor. To use this tool, we had to move the red line with the blue arrow cursor along to the footage we wanted cut, we then just clicked on the line and it immediatly cut the footage for us. This was quite hard however when we wanted very short shots, like shown in the picture.
Therefore we had to use this tool to zoom into the footage. It was really convinient to have a tool like this as we have many small, quick shots.

The footage then turned out like this, which made it a lot easier for us to cut at the right points and helped us keep it in time with the music as well.

Furthermore, when we wanted to add effect such as changing the speed or reversing some footage we clicked on the shot, as well as holding the ctrl button down it, then came up with this which let us either increase or decrease the speed of the shot as well as reversing.