Editing Journal: Part 1

As a group we discussed the editing process together in our first media lesson back after the filming process had been completed.

We had previously had a tutorial on how to convert footage and how to use Adobe Premiere Pro so we did not have any concerns about timing or deadlines for editing because we knew this process would not take long and in the past we knew the Internet was an excellent resource for instructions as were the IT technicians at school.

Example of editing process

1. Imported footage from SD card onto the iMacs.
2. Dragged footage once it had finished importing onto Premiere Pro and started to place them in the correct order in which we believed they were going to go in - following our storyboard. This was just the generalised version of our music video which had no editing involved. It was to just give us some sort of idea on average length and timings etc.
3. Having placed all the clips onto Premier Pro we cut all of the audio which came with them as we did not need it because this was a music video and downloaded the audio = 'New York City' by The Chainsmokers. We did discuss the idea of including diegetic sound and whether or not this would be effective, particularly for the forest scenes. But we decided for now that it would be best to save this idea for when we have the final draft and see what it looks like then instead of trying to combine hundreds of unplanned ideas into one music video.