ADOBE PREMIERE PRO

The most important factors for creating my Music Video are as follows:

STEP ONE: RE-COLOURING

When I first imported my footage onto Premiere pro I had to sort it out. This meant cutting parts of clips from certain films and randomly putting them on the premiere pro timeline. When I had collected the most successful parts of all my filming, I realised the colouring looked a lot like a home video. Therefore, I decided to pick a colour scheme for the whole production. I looked at all my footage and realised that the purple tones weren’t prominent enough and thought I would make it a bit darker. Therefore, on each piece of footage, I inserted the ‘Three-way colour wheel’ which enables you to control the shadows, mid-tones and highlights each piece of film. I change the shadows to a more brown, darkish colour and set the mid-tones and highlights to a brighter blue. This contrasted well throughout my video. This alongside adjusting the brightness and contrast levels made my video look a lot more professional and not like I’d just filmed some home footage.

CUTTING FILM

For most part of my music video, I had to keep replacing and cutting different parts of film to fit in certain paces. Also, when I had my 3rd filming shoot with Lottie, I then had even more film to add. Therefore, in order to add and takeaway different parts of film, I had to come accustomed with the ‘Razor blade’ in which you simply clicked on and used the mouse to select the part of film you want (as circled in red). As selected in blue, you can see what the Razor Blade tool looks like. This tool made it easy to create my film as quick and efficiently as possible. As I was not used to using this programme, a selection of YouTube clips helped me understand all of the different tools to use. If I were to create another film or music video again., I think it would be done in a much quicker time period as I am now accustomed and fluent with using all of the different tools and options (such as colour changing, cinemascope and time expenditure.)

DIP TO WHITE/BLACK

This is a technique I used it the early stages of my second editing production (after my first draft). This is a technique called ‘Dip to White’ or ‘Dip to Black’, which instead of a normal fade from one video to another, the fade between the video is either white or black. This seemed like a good idea at the time because it made the video more visually exciting . However, it overlapped the cinemascope that I’d inputted and made the screen look slightly contorted and the flash from white-to-white became slightly annoying to watch and made my eyes hurt slightly. Therefore, instead I used a normal fade from video to video, and for the clip circled in Red, and overlapped film. By overlapping other film creating the illusionist effect I was trying to achieve without the fade to white, therefore making it loo less ‘tacky’ and more professional.

RENDERING

As I used lots of colouring, overlapping of film, fading in and out and cinemascope, so every time I made an adjustment or improvement, in order for my film to flow fluently, I had to render. As circled in blue, the Red line means it needs to be rendered. Therefore, by simply pressing the ‘enter’ button on my keyboard, enabled the process of rendering and rectifying each frame. This ensured that all my slow-motion was of high standard and all my techniques were fluid aspects of my film and there was no jumping from 1 frame to another. This was important for the development of my film.

SPEEDING UP FILM AND SLOWING FILM DOWN

By right clicking on a piece of film it brings up the option for ‘Clip Speed / Duration’ and enables you to create a slow-motion clip or a sped up clip. This created a brilliant effect for my video as the pace of the song is quite slow and therefore, editing was easier when pars of my film were slowed right down. Also, for the opening to my music video, those shots were slowed down to an extreme as the clips were not very long in the first place – this enabled me to use this clip as it was longer and didn’t have to discard that piece of film.