part of my answer to Media A2 Evaluation question 4: How did you use technologies in the construction and research, planning and evaluation stages?

1. ADOBE PREMIER PRO
Premier is the program that we used to edit
together all of our separate pieces of footage
that we had filmed. Footage could be taken
and added to the timeline from the bin. This
was a useful element of the software as it
meant that all of our footage was readily
available from one space.
The most basic form of editing that we used
Premier to complete was cutting and
transitioning between clips. Just by pressing
the ‘C’ button, parts of clips can be cut to the
right size to control the correct beginning and
ending points. By adding a dip to/from black
effect to the visual clips, we can make shots
smoothly fade in and out to create effective
transitions between different scenes.

2. ADOBE PREMIER PRO
Premier contains a huge selection of
adjustable effects that can be added to video
and audio clips to create a specific desired
effect. Some of these that I most frequently
used are levels, dip to black, opacity,
exponential audio fade, fill left, de-noiser and
volume. These effects can be taken from the
effects bin and added to individual clips. In
the effects tab on a selected clip, the effect
can be adjusted, for example key frames can
be added to the opacity effect to decide when
two clips begin to crossfade and at what
speed they do so. We used this feature to
control a crossfade between archive footage
of a Foo Fighters concert and back stage
footage at the Imagine Dragons concert.

3. ADOBE PREMIER PRO
While some of these effects could be replicated
for other clips simply by copying it onto each
clip on the timeline, some shots needed to be
isolated and edited with close attention for their
own purpose. The audio from footage of
concerts sometimes needed to dip down to
allow the voiceover to be heard over the top.
This was achieved by inserting key frames into
the audio track to reduce the volume at the
moment that we wanted the voiceover to come
in.
Chroma key allowed us to edit our own
background into an interview that showed
slowed down, greyscale, B-roll footage. We did
this by filming our interview against a blue
screen and using Chroma key to remove the
background of pure blue. We then overlaid the
interview footage on top of another layer of
video showing the B-roll footage.