Sync Assembly Workshop - 10/5/21

 

In this workshop, Sam taught us about the importance of a transcript when in the post-production phase of our project and he also taught us how to read and follow the transcript when editing on Premiere Pro. The footage shown above was the edit that I managed to put together following the transcript that was given to us. I decided to add the audio effect known as 'Exponential Fade' to smooth the cuts of the audio I had to piece together. The company, Soundsnap, specifically a filmmaker/video editor called Jason Brandel, the author of this website article, agrees with me saying that it is: "great at smoothing out cut-up dialogue. Because of its curve, it allows for a smooth transition before, between, and after individual words and syllables." (Brandel, 2019)

A transcript is a script that can help when editing to piece the final product together, Louise Tapia, the CEO of Take 1, a transcription metadata company that provides transcripts, access services, translations, and post-production scripts to production companies, studios, localisation vendors and networks across the globe, describes a transcript as: "A 100% accurate word-for-word account of a movie, documentary or online video and is a crucial element to the smooth running of the post-production process." (Tapia, 2017).

With the amount of time we have to complete this unit, unfortunately, we wouldn't have enough time to write a transcript for our documentary, so we will be following our script in the post-production phase.

References:

Brandel, J. (2019) 5 Tips for Editing Audio in Premiere. At: https://www.soundsnap.com/blog/5-pro-tips-for-editing-audio-in-premiere/ (Accessed 10/05/21)

Tapia, L. (2017) The Importance of Transcription in Post Production. At: https://www.raindance.org/importance-transcription-post-production/ (Accessed 10/05/21)

The Ken Burns Effect Editing Workshop

 

In this workshop we learnt about the Ken Burns effect. The Ken Burns effect is when you add movements to still images to make them more dynamic. I learnt how to add a mask to a picture and blur the picture out so the main focus is on the primary object. I loved this workshop as I got to learn something different then just editing techniques and showed me the variety of effects I can use on Premiere Pro. I will definitely remember this workshop and I will love to add this effect to my future projects on this course.

'Fairly Legal' - Edit - Editing Workshop 18/11/20

 

This was the edit I made called 'Fairly Legal' which was all about a litigator wanting more time on an assignment. There was a lot of new shortcuts that I learnt that I can use when editing in the future on Adobe Premiere Pro. These were: 

• The overwrite tool (the keyboard shortcut being the period key (.)) helps paste clips into the timeline more sufficiently where your clip is selected.
• The slip tool (the keyboard shortcut being the 'Y' key) slips the clips in and out point, however it doesn't move it on the timeline. This also previews the in and out points on the monitor along with the tool.
• The slide tool (the keyboard shortcut being the 'U' key) slides the clip on the timeline to a different place on it but it keeps the in and out points the same. This tool can also close gaps in footage too.

'Zero to Hero' - Edit - Premiere Pro Workshop 11/11/20

 

This was the edit I made called 'Zero to Hero', which is about drag car racers and and about car racing. I edited this footage to make it seem like racing was an important part of the interviewees' life which it is. I have learnt a lot of good editing tips from today including how to lift and extract clips from a timeline on Premiere Pro, using the keyboard shortcut keys ; (semi colon) and ' (apostrophe).  

I Trust - Edit - Premier Pro Workshop

I Trust - Edit

This was the edit I made called 'I Trust' for a Premiere Pro workshop on my third week on the course. I edited these clips in this way so that the man, that was the main focus or the protagonist, could not think properly before starting to read books and that way he was able to focus on things easier. I emphasised this by putting the people waiting for the train at the start and the train leaving the station at the end, which we were told to do by our lecturer. I also learnt a lot of different shortcuts on the Premiere Pro workshop that I did not know before. For example, when you double click the video and it comes up on the top left of the screen you can use the 'J' and the 'L' keys to fast-forward and rewind the video, I also learnt that you can use the 'I' and the 'O' keys to sort out what bits of the video you want.