Editing: Importing and editing in Premiere pro

Now we have all the footage that we need for our opening, we can begin to edit our footage using Premiere Pro.

To begin, we had to create a new project on Premiere Pro. We called the project 'Carrie raw footage' as we were just going to do a rough copy on what we have produced. 

When our project was created, we imported our footage from the as filming 1 folder which contained all of our footage. Not all of our footage was going to be used within our opening as we had 19 minutes full of filming. The shots we had were done a numerous amount of times using different lighting and angles to ensure we had all the best footage. 

Our next step was to add all the best clips together to help create a rough idea of how the opening was going to be presented. We trimmed the majority of clips due to the actor not being prepared on time. This wasn't a massive issue as it was solved but i think in the future we would need an actor who could be prepared to act for our opening. Another issue we had was that a lot of the lighting was very dark so this meant we had to replace some shots with more lighting to enable us to have a clearer view of what is going on within the shots. Even though we wanted to create a dark, horror effect during our opening we thought to film with more light and then change the effect using Premiere Pro to help us gain that same effect. 

Above shows a rough idea of what our opening will be like. The bar along the top shows a red section which isn't good, this effects the footage by making it run slowly. To fix this, we clicked at the top onto 'Sequence' then 'Render Entire Work Area'. To know that this has worked, the red section should turn into green which will then help the footage run smoothly.

The gaps in between out footage are set out ready for our titles to be put into. We also made a couple quick pauses to cause tension within our opening. For the last shot we wanted overlap a sound clip on our female character, Carrie, to sing a lullaby. We already recorded the footage of her singing which will trim and add into the end however we recorded her singing for the second time so we could adjust the tuning and add effects throughout garage band.

Test sound edit AS media

This was completed by Panashe Charamba as part of team Blackhat's test sound edit for the 2 minute opening.

When creating sound we have a few options for the film. we are able to use both diabetic and non diabetic sound. In our filming we are going to use non-diabetic sound, this is because we do not have the correct recording equipment that will allow use to get good clear sound, that we will need for our opening. We are able to make musical sound tacks using software like garage band, or download clips from free sound.

In garage band I was able to layer pre-recorded beats and sounds to create a track, which to add to the film opening, the screen shot below shows the practice sound track which I made to familiarise myself with the software.

Garage band also allowed me to control the fade of the tracks freely to match in to any footage and film we are going to use.

Overall garage band was a good way to create a track as it allows us to match the sound track to the actual film, which would give it a much greater impact, on the audience. Garage band was also setup similarly to premiere pro, this made it very easy to adapt, and made the overall process much easier.

The final test sound edit, found track is shown below:

Like in garage band free sound also had sounds and tracks preloaded on to it which you could use, but in this cue these where sounds which outer people had made so you would get a greater variation and choose in the sounds which you are able to choose from.

On the other hand you can not manipulate these sounds on the site its self but you can then download them ad addd them to garage band.

In the screen shot below it shows,what free sound looks like. I have simply searched for horror, in the  search bar, and it shows a range of sounds under this category, which you can listen to and use.

Overall garage band is a good site which can be used, if you are struggling to create your own sound track, and if you cannot find certain sound effect from garage band.

Editing:Creating and editing titles [Premiere Pro CS6]

This was completed by titus as part of team black hats title production


This video illustrates how to add titles on primer pro. learning this is crucial to the project as, titles play a key role in the opening of a film. these can give extra information about the film, this could be the obvious information like the actors and producers etc. but they can be also developed so they can inform the audience, what type f film the is and the general theme of it. It is important we can create titles to the highest standard to make our overall product as appealing as possible and professional 


Making titles was a fun process because you get to be inventive and think up of ways to get the best effect of the use of titles.

To begin with we had no idea as to what we where going to do, so to try and help us generate some ideas we resulted in watching a few clips from YouTube and once we got some knowledge of how to create titles, we began getting ideas on what i wanted the titles to look like.



As a grope we went for the simple white colour for my titles, we wanted to keep it simple but effective as well. We did toy around with other colours but we always found the white to be the most effective colour in this case. However top begin with we wanted to have two colours white and red, we wanted the white to show then a flicker of red would appear then it would flick back to being white.

Following that we looked at a YouTube video on how to edit titles at a more advanced level and from that we learnt how to make the titles roll on to the screen and how to control them when i wanted them to fade in and out. My best discovery using premiere pro was to make the titles flicker from dark to light, the reason we done this was to give a discomfort sort of feeling to the opening. At the end i found that they wok quite effectively on given that horror movie feel to the audience.

The final finish for the titles were that they would be white, they would flicker and they would fade in a fade out slightly