Technology evaluation 1
- 1. How did you use media technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages? Adobe Premiere
- 2. Premiere Premiere is the software which I think that I used the most throughout the construction of the trailer ‘Poker’. From my foundation portfolio I had some basic knowledge of how to use premiere, but for the piece that I wanted to create I needed to be able to use it at a much more advanced level. Knowing this I learned things from my peers, teachers and my own research so that I was able to get the most use out of premiere that I possibly could, achieving all my desired plans.
- 3. Previous Knowledge A. Selection Tool: Use this tool to select clips, menu items, buttons, and other objects. B. Track Selection Tool: Use this tool to select all clips to the right of the cursor in a sequence. C. Ripple Edit Tool: You can use the Selection tool to trim the start or end of a clip in the Timeline; however, you might create an empty space between the clips on your Timeline. D. Rolling Edit Tool: Use this tool to simultaneously change the In and Out points of a pair of adjacent clips on the Timeline. E. Rate Stretch Tool: This tool is used to shorten or lengthen a clip in the Timeline. F. Razor Tool: Use this tool to split clips in the Timeline. Click any point on a clip to split it at that exact location. G. Slip Tool: Use the Slip tool to simultaneously change the In and Out points of a clip in a Timeline, while keeping the overall duration of the clip unchanged. H. Slide Tool: Use this tool to move a clip to the right or left on the Timeline while trimming any clips. I. Pen Tool: All clips have a set of properties that you can edit using the Effect Controls panel. J. Hand Tool: Use this tool to move the viewing area of a Timeline to the right or left. K. Zoom Tool: Select this tool to zoom in or out in the Timeline. This is the tools bar which is at the centre of the premiere screen and used to edit almost all the trailer. Here I have explained which each tool does:
- 4. How this knowledge helped me? Editing Having all these skills meant that I was able to edit the trailer how I had visioned it. After lots of research and planning I knew exactly how I wanted the trailer to be edited. This meant that when it came round to editing it I was able to do a majority of it without any struggle. There were a few things that I didn’t know how to do but I feel with an in depth knowledge of the basic tools I was able to achieve a lot of what I wanted at a high standard. Creativity This knowledge allowed me to be a lot more creative within editing. I was able to do the basic things straight away and then spend my extra time carrying out more advanced editing skills. I feel like this showed in my final edit of the trailer for ‘Poker’ through the use of editing technique and much more. Deadlines Being able to use these tools quickly and efficiently to edit my piece meant that I was able to finish the trailer in time for deadlines. If I hadn’t have had this knowledge of being able to use the tools effectively then I would have been constantly asking for help and spending time figuring out how to achieve what I wanted to do. Therefore carrying this knowledge on premiere forward meant that I didn’t waste any time and I spent all time I did have efficiently.
- 5. New Knowledge This screenshot shows the colour adjusting tools where you can adjust the colouring of shots. I learnt to use this during the process of editing as I wanted some of the shots to have slightly different colouring to fit the with the noir conventions. This scale setting made it so that I was able to make a shot more zoomed in if I wanted or if I wanted the whole shot on screen at the time. This was helpful as in some shots I didn’t feel like they were close enough so I was able to use this so that they were.
- 6. During previous use of premiere I had just placed music in and left it how it was. However I really wanted to adjust the music to fit the montage and to do this I found this feature very helpful. I was able to use this to make the music flow better with the trailer and the volume could be adjusted when there was non-diegetic sounds as well as voice overs. I also made a lot of use out of the effects. I was able to add effects to sounds such as making them fade in and out - making transitions smooth. As well as this I could edit individual clips by using video effects and video transitions.
- 7. Overall I feel that premiere helped me to create the best trailer that I could and i was able to experiment with new editing techniques to increase my knowledge of the software. I think that there is a lot more that I could learn as there are endless possibilities of editing techniques, however considering my previous experience I think that I progressed a lot since my foundation portfolio and used all my skills to their potential.