The author began their media course having never used Premiere Pro before. For their preliminary task, they only knew the basics of cutting clips and adding a title. They used this initial task to become comfortable with the software. For their final piece, the editing took the longest as they incorporated more effects, sounds, and colors. They went through multiple drafts and revisions as they aimed to make their final piece the best it could be. Comparing the preliminary task to the final piece, the author's Premiere Pro skills had increased greatly and they were now able to produce a much more professional and higher quality edit.

2. WHEN I BEGAN MEDIA I HAD NEVER USED PREMIERE BEFORE SO WHEN WE HAD
TO FIRST USE IT TO EDIT OUR PRELIMINARY TASK I HAD NO IDEA WHAT I WAS
DOING. AFTER BEING SHOWN THE BASICS AND MESSING AROUND WITH IT FOR A
WHILE I WAS ABLE TO EDIT THE PRELIMINARY TASK VERY BASICALLY. ALL I DID
WAS CUT CLIPS AND PUT THEM TOGETHER AND ADD A TITLE AT THE BEGINNING
AND THAT WAS THE EXTENT OF IT. I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO DO SOUNDS OR ADD
ANY EFFECT OR GO INTO MUCH DETAIL WITH IT. I USED THIS INITIAL TASK AS A
CHANCE TO BECOME COMFORTABLE WITH THE SOFTWARE AND LEARN THE
BASICS SO THAT I FELT CONFIDENT ENOUGH TO EDIT OUR FINAL PIECE WHEN IT
CAME ROUND TO IT.

3. This is what the editing
looked like in my
Preliminary task.
This is what the
editing looked like
in my final piece.

4. OUT OF THE ALL THE STAGES WHICH MADE UP OUR FINAL PIECE, I THINK THAT
THE EDITING TOOK THE LONGEST AS THIS IS WHERE WE COULD REALLY MAKE IT
TURN INTO THE PIECE THAT WE'D HOPED IT WOULD BE. TO BEGIN WITH WE DID A
ROUGH EDIT AND IT WAS QUITE BASIC BUT NOT AS BASIC AS THE EDITING DONE
IN THE PRELIMINARY TASK, BECAUSE SINCE THEN WE HAD BEEN TAUGHT A LOT
MORE ABOUT PREMIERE AND I HAD BECOME MORE EXPERIENCED IN USING IT.
NOT ONLY DID WE INCORPORATE SOUND EFFECTS, BACKING MUSIC, TITLES,
AND SPECIAL EFFECTS WE ALSO CHANGED THE SCALE OF SHOTS AND THEIR
COLOUR AND SO MUCH MORE. SOME EXAMPLES CAN BE SEEN BELOW.

5. EDITING TOOK UP A LOT OF TIME AS A LOT THINGS THAT I DID I WOULD HAVE TO
RUN THROUGH THE REST OF THE GROUP AND IF THEY DIDN'T LIKE SOMETHING
OR WANTED IT TO BE CHANGED THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK AND
CHANGE IT. SOMETIMES IT WOULD BE HARD TO GO BACK AND CHANGE THINGS
SO IT WOULD TAKE EVEN MORE TIME BUT WE WANTED IT TO LOOK ITS BEST SO
WE DID. BEFORE GETTING TO THE FINAL PIECE WE HAD AT LEAST 3 OTHER
DRAFTS IN BETWEEN SOME OF WHICH WE THOUGHT WERE THE FINAL ONES.

6. COMPARING THE USE OF PREMIERE IN THE PRELIMINARY TASK TO THE USE OF
IT IN THE FINAL PIECE A MAJOR DIFFERENCE CAN BE SEEN. THE EDITING IN THE
FINAL PIECE IS MUCH MORE PROFESSIONAL AND LOOKS OF A MUCH HIGHER
STANDARD. I THINK THAT MY SKILLS USING PREMIERE HAVE INCREASED AS I
NOW HAVE A MUCH WIDER KNOWLEDGE ON IT AND MY SKILLS USING IT HAVE
DEVELOPED SO MUCH THAT MY GROUP TRUSTED ME TO DO A LOT OF THE
EDITING.