Music Video- Editing

Firstly, I had to create a new project in Adobe Premiere Pro. I changed the name to 'Everything Lies' so that it will be easily recongised in my B drive.

I changed the available preset to DV-PAL, Widescreen 48kHz. This enables my video to be in widescreen once uploaded onto YouTube. 

One I have set the settings correctly, the screenshot above will be shown where you can begin editing. In order for the footage to be imported into Adobe Premiere Pro, you have to go into 'File', 'Import' and select which footage you would like to import. Once you have imported the footage it will be displayed on the left hand side and then can be placed on the time line in order for it to be edited.

This screenshot shot shows the footage once it has been placed on the timeline, to place it on the timeline  you have to drag it from the left hand side. Using the tools on the bottom right I edited my footage. The main tool which I used was the razor tool, this tool allowed me to cut up the footage and create quick, sharp cuts.  Throughout our music video we tried to ensure that none of our shots lasted longer than 3 seconds as we wanted to adhere to this convention of pop music videos.

This screenshot shows our music video once we had changed  it to black and white. We changed our music video to black and white by using the special effects in the bottom left hand corner.  Initially we wasn't going to use black and white but due to the footage which we had collected it looked better in black and white. If we was able to complete our music video again we would only have the narrative in black and white, as this would separate the narrative from the singing and look more professional. 

This screenshot shows a close up shot of how we change our music video to black and white. After selecting the black and white effect in the bottom left corner,  additional video effects are shown in the middle of this screenshot which can be changed. We was not required to change any other effects as we only wanted our music video in black and white.

This screenshot shows our music video once it had been rendered, to render the music video we had to ensure that the two arrows was at either ends and then you press enter.  Once you press enter, a rendering box is shown which shows the percentage the music video has been rendered.

Once our video had been render we was able to export the file. To export our music video we had to select 'file', 'export', 'movie'.

This screenshot shows how we exported the file, once clicked on 'file', 'export', you select 'Movie'.

Once you select 'Movie' the screenshot shown above is displayed where you can check all the settings are completed correctly. Once you've checked the settings you select 'OK'.

Once you select 'OK', Adobe Media Encoder is opened. You then 'Start Queue' which begins the exporting process. This software will export it to a file which YouTube will recognise  and therefore can be uploaded to YouTube.