Week 5 Wednesday February 2nd 2011

Today in the first two hour lesson, I completed my initial aims task which I was meant to do a while ago but didn't :S Don't ask! But I also continued with my journey document and I am half way through finishing that now. I also got a copy of all the rushes we filmed yesterday put onto my hard drive (The Hard Drive's that are in E21) and a copy onto my own personal external hard drive. I also own my own hard drive, it's a "My Passport" one.

As I was absent last Wednesday (Because of an epic college trip [lol, wierd how I say College trip instead of school trip now] to BBC TV Centre in London) I missed the lesson where there was a Adobe Premiere Tutorial Workshop. Although I know absolutely everything about Windows Movie Maker. We would still have to use Adobe Premiere. However, today in Harry's lesson, he did another workshop for the ones absent last week.

Today in the Adobe premiere workshop, I learned a lot of things in Premiere. I learned about importing the audio along with markers and keyframes, I learned about how you do transitions from one clip to another clip, like dissolve, texturise etc. I learned about how to do split screens by putting one clip on top of another clip and making the sizes of the clip smaller adjusting it so there are 2 clips at once. (Moving frames, cropping, enlarging.

Make a I learned about how to do things in slow motion or speed up clips or even reverse the clips. Which I find fun :P I saw how to do colour grading, how to do freezeframes. In Windows Movie Maker, there is an easier way to do freezeframes but I don't care about that. I learned about PSD's and PNG's formats. I learned about having to create three folders in our ext. hard drives;

Images
Audio
Rushes
Project

I learned about making a packshot by using Adobe Photoshop. First, I must make a new document, set the preset to "Film & Video", set the size to "PAL DI/DV Widescreen Square Pixel", set width to 1024 and height to 576, the colour mode to RGB, the resolution must be 72 and the background content to "transparent". It is basically similar to when we created DVD menu's. Making the pack shot was pretty interesting in my opinion like when I imported it and saw it on Adobe Premiere above another video clip.