Premier Pro

I am now starting to use Premier Pro again after playing about with some of the features so that I can practise and see what I can use when I'm editing my video.

I asked about using it and now know what I need to start editing my video so from now I am going to be using Premier Pro.

I have decided to start the Premier Pro project on my laptop so that I am able to do it as often as I can rather than having to rely on using the school computers.

Movie Maker Draft

This is a short clip I made of my video on Movie Maker to give me an idea of putting the clips together.

Premier Pro problems

Now that I am starting to bring together my clips I need to start to make an actual video. I am having problems using Premier Pro as I feel like I don't know how to use it properly; I am going to start putting together some clips on Windows Movie Maker just to give me an idea of what order I am going to put my clips in.
I am going to speak to my teachers about using Premier Pro but unitl then I am going to use Movie Maker.

Makeup

I filmed a video of Emily showing the makeup she wore in my music video. I filmed her showing the products and techniques she used to achieve the makeup look she wore in my music video.

I will put this video on the CD with the rest of my videos .

Reviewing footage

Looking through my footage I can see that I have a large choice of clips to use; in my previous post I mentioned that I had over 200 videos although as I have started to look through them I have found that quite a few of them are out of focus and that I also have a lot of bloopers :)

Here are some examples of clips I would and wouldn't consider using in my video;

I'm likely to use this video as the lighting is good and the shot is in focus.

If I was going to use this video I would have to cut it down as the start is good but the end isn't.

Although the lighting and camera focus in this shot is good I won't be able to use it in my video as they both laughed :)

Footage

I have got over 200 videos that I will be able to use for my music video; having a large amount of footage will allow me to put them together and take the parts I like to put into my music video. Having a large amount will allow me to use many different clips meaning that I will be able to use many different camera angles and shot types in my music video.

Clothing

These were the outfits worn by my actors in the video:

Emily wore a Wedding Dress made by her sister Alice who is studying __ at uni; as you can see by the hoop in the image above the dress was originally huge as it had been made for a fairy-tale dress purpose based off of the dress warn by Giselle in Enchanted. Emily tried on the full dress as shown in the picture below but it was far to big so I altered it based on the material we had from the dress!! :)

These are some pictures of Charlie and Emily together; as you can see in the images above Charlie wore a Blue Suit. I chose these outfits as I believe that it represented well that they were a bride and groom.

Filming day 2

Yesterday I filmed for the second time; I used multiple locations to film and was able to get multiple different shot types and angles that will be very useful for me to use when I start to edit my video and put it all together.

I started the filming at a golf club where I was given permission to drive into and film in the car park; these shots will later be used to show the Bride and Groom arriving at the reception venue. Here I recorded the car with Emily and Charlie in it multiple times with each camera to make sure that I had enough footage to be able to chose which I liked later on.
I then filmed Emily and Charlie getting out of the car and walking towards the building, I did this many times from different angles with both cameras to get both up close and further out views.
Information on the cameras and equipment used can be found later on a separate blog post.

From the golf club we then drove to the registry office; I used this time to film inside of the car again with different camera angels including having both of them in the same shot by holding the camera and turning and also up close shots of Emily and Charlie to show a more personal up close shot to review their facial expressions.

When we arrived at the registry office I went inside and met the people there to introduce myself. They were all very helpful and showed me which rooms I was able to use. I then filmed Emily and Charlie leaving the registry office, getting into the car and driving off multiple times before going inside to film in one of the rooms.
I filmed Emily and Charlie leaving the room where the environment they are in implies they've just got married walking out of the door and to the front of the registry office building. This was done multiple times using different camera angles to make sure that I have enough footage to edit later on.

I am now going to start looking back through everything I have filmed to determine which footage I can use then start to put it together in the editing process.