When it was time to do the final touches of my children’s drama, all I had left to do was edit. So I went onto “Premiere Pro”, a piece of editing software, and clicked on new project. It came up with the types of screen sizes we could choose from, from DV-NTSC standard to HVD. I clicked on DV-PAL and chose widescreen 48. It opened up and I got a big screen with a timeline on at the bottom of the screen, a screen at the top right to watch my clips on, and the place to import the clips to on the top left.
Before I could import my clips I had to change the format of them. I did this by going onto the folder they were in, and then clicking on “tools” at the top of the screen, and then “folder options”. It came up with a few tabs and I clicked on “view” and then I un ticked “Hide extensions for known file types”. When I did this it then showed the name of the clips followed by “.MOV” I then had to change every clip from “MOV” TO “MPG”. When I did this I went back on to Premier Pro and clicked on “file” and then “import” and imported all my clips into a box on the time corner.
When I had all my clips there and ready to use, I found my first clip that I needed and dragged it on the timeline. I did this with all my clips, putting them in the right order ready to edit, however I left a gap between each clip, in case I decided to re-film something or add something in, and to make it clearer to see all the different clips. I put them on Video 1 and audio 1 on the timeline, I did this because they are my main clips and I needed the sound as well as the picture. I first of all watched all my clips at once to see how badly it needed editing and to see if it flowed properly. Once I had watched it all, I then started to cut down my first clip by using the cut tools in the tools box on the right hand side of the screen. The first clip was a bit long before anything actually happened, so I cut a chunk of the beginning out. Another clip a character in the scene was walking too slow compared to the one following after, so I right clicked on the clip and went onto speed duration and sped the clip up, so it seemed like he was walking faster. During this I found out that it was too long, and decided to get rid of a few unnecessary clips, when my characters are going into the kitchen. Instead I made them go straight into the lounge, saving time and also it didn’t drag on for too long. After all the clips were the right length and weren’t jumpy. When the end of a scene was over, I would go onto effects at the bottom left of the screen, click on it and type in “cross dissolve”. When it came up I would drag it onto the end of the clip I wanted it to be on, and the beginning of the next, so that It faded up slower than just if it quickly appeared, making it looked formal. I did this to show passing of time.
I did go back later on a shorten a few other clips after feedback from others, such as one clip, a close up of a TV screen as a game is being played was said to be too long with nothing in between, so I shortened it down, and cut back to the two characters in my drama playing it, to show their emotion and to make it more interesting.
After that, when I was happy with the sequence, there were no black frames in between clips and everything ran as smoothly as it could, I decided to work on a soundtrack, I decided firstly to do the diagetic sounds, which are sounds that are visible to the viewer on the screen or that is implied to be present by the action of the film, for example a knocking at the door, a fire alarm going of, or music being represented by instruments on screen. So the first diagetic sound I had to find was the sound of a doorbell being rung. Luckily I had planned ahead, and already recorded the sound of the doorbell at the house I used, for the scene where one of my characters rings the doorbell. So I dragged it onto the timeline and instead of putting it on audio and video 1, I unlinked the clip, by right clicking on the clip and clicking “unlink” and dragged the sound down to audio 2, and deleted the picture, so that all I had left was the sound of the doorbell. Once I did that I went onto the next scene that needed an audio effect. This was the one where a loud banging and crashing noise wakes my characters up, so I went onto a website called “Free Sound”, where you can download background noises, tunes, any type of sound for free, and found a clip of a crashing noise and downloaded it. When I downloaded I then imported it straight away and put it in the area I wanted it to, again into audio 2. I cut it down to how I wanted it and turned the sound level on audio 2 a bit higher for more impact. After I had put all the effects on that I needed, I then did the soundtrack, again I went onto Free Sound and chose a song that I would use all the way through, and another tune for the cliff-hanger. I downloaded it and imported it the same as my sound effects and put them onto the timeline where I wanted them. A part of my children's drama I needed the audio from audio 1 to be turned down slightly so the music would be louder and be the center of attention in the scene. I did this by putting a key frame in the beginning and the end of the sound that I wanted to be turned down, and the same with the part of the soundtrack that I needed to turn up. To put a key frame in I simply just went onto the little box that said "Audio 1" first and clicked on the dot that had to arrows either side of it, where I had put the red curser a dot appeared, so then I moved the curser a bit more to the right and clicked again so I got another dot next to it, I then moved the cursor to the part where I wanted the audio to go up again, and clicked on the dot twice again. After than I was able to lower the sound to whatever pitch I wanted during which the music was louder. I used the key frame to turn the music up.
When all my clips were ready and all my sound was on, I had to do my after effects. I got part of the clip I wanted effects onto, and created a green glowing circle on that part of the clip, to do that I had to line all these points up from the black and green, so it looked like it was glowing. I couldn’t have the glow on all the time however as the picture on the clip moved and it would have looked stupid, so I had to improvise and have it glowing at certain times, and again I cut a bit of the clip it was to be out, so it looked like during one really short clip it wasn’t meant to be glowing so it wasn’t so obvious. Once I had done that all I had left to do was the font for the title, the characters name and the people who helped with the project. To do that I just went to the top of the screen and clicked “title” and then “new title”. It came up with a box and I got to choose a font, colour and type in what I wanted, I did this a few times for the title of my drama and all the names of the people who helped and that was in it. When I did this I dragged them onto the part of the timeline that I wanted them to be on and used the affect “cross dissolve” so that they would fade in and out so they didn’t just disappear tackily. I did the same with the end credits and the “to be continued”
Once my children’s drama was all ready I then went onto “file” and then clicked on “export” I exported it as a MPG file and it rendered my work together to make it smoother, and created it into one file so that I could watch it on things like “Windows Media Player”
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