I have recently started to edit some of the footage filmed for my documentary and began to develop my introduction. Despite having used Premiere Pro once before for my preliminary task, I am still very much new to the software and thus I am still learning about how to use it. Having thoroughly planned my production with story boards and timelines and having a clear idea in my head as to what it is that I aim to create, I have been able to edit footage rather quickly in terms of the order of which my shots will follow. The more difficult part of my editing that I had greatly underestimated is syncing my transitions successfully to my background music, Clap Tap. This is something that not only requires paying a great amount of attention to detail to the song, but also due to the variations of pace, tone and introduction of new instruments, this has in turn been something that I have needed to account for regarding the shot sequences. This is probably the most time consuming element of my editing so far, stressing the need to watch and review my production over and over again to ensure that my shot transitions and pace are edited at exactly the right point.
After starting the process of beginning to edit, I decided to make folders within which to categorise all of my shots. Since I had to complete all of my filming during such a short period of allocated time, I re-shot everything several times, to ensure that there would be enough variation of shots to choose from when it came to editing. However this obviously left me with an abundance of footage, which meant that when scrolling through it all to find a particular shot I was wasting a great amount of time.
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