EDITING WORKSHOP: TIMELINE & COLOUR CORRECTION

In our session with Fergus, we talked about editing on the timeline and using the editing tools that Premiere Pro has to offer such as ripple, cut, select, etc. and how this can help with with editing. Fergus gave us some footage and asked us to work through it and work on the audio side of it rather than the footage to start. Since there wasn't a constant audio track to cut from we had to use different parts of audio from different footage and make it all run smoothly together. Once this was done we worked on the footage and started to use L cuts which helped to change up the edit. Making the cuts between the clips slighting different but the audio still working well together. Once I'd done this I watch it back and Fergus suggested to cut the clips down and make the cuts happen a lot quickly and not have any long pauses and keeps the scene running and the audience interested. I found this really helpful since I often prefer to have pauses during moments such as in this seqeunce when the judge says 'Your father was a great man', However, Fergus showed me that this can just bore people and you want to keep the scene snappy and flowing unless it's said in the script.

After this we went on to learn the basics of colour correction in Adobe Premiere Pro, although there's a programme from Adobe called 'Speedgrading' which allows more detailed and complicated colour correction and grading for videos. However, Premiere Pro offers a good amount of Colour Correction. We started by looking at a effect called 3 pint colour correction which allows you to not only correct the shadows, midtones and highlights with the colour wheels. By changing one of these you'll effect the other two. They work together. As well the graph on the right side shows the level of whites and blacks in the shot and allows me to see what's over exposed. Fergus showed us how to balance the colours out and make it much more crisp and eye appealing for the audince. While doing this I learnt how much colour can effect a scene. When I brought the colours down and made it more blue and cold. The mood of the scene changed to be more serious and upsetting. But with a more crist and bright colour it became more intense and real life.