Editing Lesson 1

Last Friday my media class had our first editing lesson in the editing suite with Matt. It was really educating for myself because I have only ever used iMovie the software for film editing that comes on a mac laptop, so to be introduced to Adobe premier it was incredibly interesting.Matt taught us that we could actually put all our shots into a single 'bin' named 'rus

hes'. We learnt that we should do this to keep all our original shots in the same place. This was so that we could keep up good organization in our sequence editing and wouldn't lose any files because we always have a backup.

We then created a second folder named 'Log Bin' in this we put all the shots we were definitely not going to use but we could always come back to just in case - the ones that we will be using to make the finished sequence. After naming the bins we started to learn how to do the actual editing. We learned about the 'i' and 'o' keys on the keyboard that are used for 'in' and 'out' which determines how much of the shot goes into the drag window. After doing that you can drag the clip into the window at the bottom and you can cut it more or lengthen it. We then continued to do that for every other clip and edited at one to fit in with the last.

I feel I learnt a lot from my first editing lesson with Matt and I learnt that there is a great deal of skill that goes into working software like Adobe Premiere. Also we were taught to make a smooth looking, clean and crisp sequence we should avoid jump cuts and we should always cut when a shot changes from one to another, one must cut to the next when there is movement in the first scene.This movement provides a distraction to the audience and makes the whole cut a lot more efficient and clean looking.