Overview
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Find out how to highlight a cause, express a point of view, and tell a story with Premiere Pro and some essential documentary editing techniques.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- Interpreting a creative brief to establish goals
- How to use this course
- Identifying messaging concepts
- Tips for working with interviews
- Tips on B-roll sequences
- Researching background and history
- Organizing the ingest process
- Choosing an interview logging method
- Adding interview metadata
- Logging interviews with markers
- Adding notes to B-roll clips
- Preparing archival images with Photoshop
- Pulling selects and presenting ideas
- Structuring the edit
- Assembling B-roll shots
- Assembling interviews
- Building sequences and scenes
- Editing interview bites on the Timeline
- Adding other media types to the Timeline
- Completing the rough cut
- Presenting the rough cut and receiving feedback
- Planning moves on photographs
- Animating images
- Creating a title graphic in Photoshop
- Animating a title graphic in Premiere
- Presenting graphics work
- Performing an editorial evaluation
- Refining scene order
- Adjusting interview content
- Adjusting B-roll shots
- Tightening clip timing
- Fine-cutting audio
- Reviewing all assets
- Adding end credits
- Locking the picture and preparing the Timeline for finishing
- Presenting the picture lock to the client and receiving approval
- Evaluating the piece for finishing goals
- Polishing the final audio mix
- Correcting color for consistency
- Adjusting the title and animations for the best compression
- Exporting multiple files
- Next steps
