Today, our class was relocated to the editing suites and we were introduced to Adobe Premiere to set up our own project for the semester. Seeing as I haven’t used Premiere for two years it all looked confusing at first, but after Paul’s explanations I was thankfully able to pick everything up relatively quickly.
At first glance, the Media Server looks pretty scary, considering the sheer amount of data that it holds. But despite the constant reminder not to move or trash anything and the careful navigation needed not to mess the whole system up, the aspect that overwhelmed me the most was the level of organisation it required. Being someone who still hasn’t quite mastered the idea of “organisation” and whose room can only be described as chaos, this sophisticated level of planning and organising is very new to me. Creating and labelling all my footage into specified folders and categories is something I will have to work on getting used to throughout this semester, and is something I recognise will be incredibly beneficial to get into the habit of doing. It’s important to start having an organised, clean system of storing footage to maximise productivity, and this is a skill I will aim to maintain, despite it going against every natural instinct I have as a sloppy, disorganised uni student.
Near the end of the class, we had a bit of time to start editing some of our own footage from the past few class exercises. I’ve only done fairly basic sequence editing to this stage, so to get some inspiration I thought I’d find some examples of good editing (http://listverse.com/2007/10/28/top-10-best-film-editing-sequences/). One of the examples of great film editing is the following scene in ‘The Conversation’ directed by Francis Coppola.
