Today's lesson basis revolved around using premiere for the first time. We was given a task to create a montage of dancing animals by adding music, developing our video cropping skills and adding in transitions.
This is the final outcome on my first attempt of using premiere. This was vital practice as it will aid me to complete my future coursework. It was quite challenging to figure out all of the settings and features at first however I was soon able to find the crop, transition and effects tools.
The first feature I took advantage of was the the cutting tool. This allowed me to cut and crop the lengths of each clips so that they could montage smoothly with the music. I chose a rap song to have in the background of my clip which emphasised most of the characters movements in the scene. Especially when the tiger is moving on his own behind the palm trees from shot 0:14 - 0:18, his movements fit really well with the lyrics. I mainly used the same clips but using advanced tools to cut and move them, it looked more like they were in once scene. The reason I used mostly the same clip was because I wanted to display the characters most in the shots since they were the main structure of my montage.
Finally, I used an interesting camera cut when the artist said "lose my head" (shot 0:34) into the distance behind my frame. This was to reinforce the idea that their head was lost in something completely different by panning away from the animals. Directly after this movement, I applied the "paint splatter" transition. This was the most exciting scene movement I used. It took viewers away from the fence and back to the original scene so that they were back in the focus of my project. Overall, I found that this was a successful edit, however I didn't make the edit very long and I would have included more interesting clips of skyscrapers. I was slightly pushed for time which was what limited me to continue with a longer video.
