Creation of a Short Film : Editing : Premier-Pro...

So now after at long last we have finally returned from our what I call out 'snow holiday' I can finally start the long and I'm sure going to be at times tedious jobs at editing my footage together in order to create a film to a degree which I am happy with. Similar to my AS piece I used the programme 'Premier Pro' for my main piece of editing, this I feel was a better programme to use than windows media which I have on my home computer as although meant I was only able to edit at school, it is a more technical editing software and allowed me to edit with using a variety of lawyer which is crucial to being able to add non-digentic music alongside my digentic sound and titles over my initial footage.

Looking back on my AS piece I feel that I incorporated the cross-dissolve effect to much, therefore I was very careful to ensure that I limited the amounts of special effects I used between cuts. I decided to use a dissolve to black between the street walking scene and the tube scene, as this is a completely contrasting location, however between the tube and the park scene and the park and bridge scene I incorporated the cross-dissolve effect as I wanted to create a more dream like feel, also by involving this transition the footage was slowed down which matched the protagonist characters life being slowed down and her eyes opened to new experiences. With my film however I made the choice not to manipulate the footage drastically (example = changing the lighting or colour)  as I wanted to create a natural and realistic feel, although following a fictional character I wanted it to feel as if the audience was following a real woman's life. Below is a video of my initial stage of editing, whereby I had put my shots together, cut them at an appropriate place in order to ensure that unless deliberate the shots are not much longer than three seconds long and created a rough order for my film.