I’ve never worked with Premiere prior to this semester, so whenever I see a note or get an email that says “today’s class is in the edit suites” I get a bit nervous. So far I know a few of the shortcuts that make managing the program a lot easier, and I know the basics of cutting and placing shots in a sequence. Filing is a whole other story though, very intimidating stuff. Paul keeps telling us how one click can result in complete destruction so I have to learn to not be too hasty with my clicking.

Because today’s class was editing individually, it gave me the time to look around the program and see the sort of tools that are available. I used the shots from last week’s ‘abstract shoot’ and just put them in an order I thought worked well and left them be. I wanted to focus on how I could change the colouring and edit the visuals, but this took quite a long time. Some of the tools are hard to find, so by the time class was almost over, I started to find the video effects that let me adjust colouring, so I will have to continue exploring this another time.