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.