Editing in premiere pro

How to edit in premiere pro cs6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SCz2MQYhZY&list=PL38648D595F475331

Shortcuts: 

• J is used to move the curser forward.
• K is used to stop the curser from moving.
• L is used to move the curser backwards.

You can double click any of these shortcuts to move the curser faster.

• I means in.
• O means out.
• Space bar is used to stop/ start the clip.
• Arrow keys navigate the clip one frame at a time.

How to work premiere

• To insert your first clip, you drag it to the square icon next to the bin which creates a new sequence onto the timeline.
• Full stop places the second clip at the end of the first- an overwrite edit.
• To undo a mistake on a mac you use command Z and on a PC you use control Z
• To do an insert edit and place a clip between two already existing on the timeline, you use a comma.

The birth of animation

The birth of animation

Persistence of vision is an optical illusion that allows the brain to fill in the gaps between pictures, therefore making it look like they move. This is most commonly used in animation.

A zoetrope is one of several pre-film animation devices. The name comes from greek- Zoe meaning life, and tropos meaning turning, even though historians believe it was invented in 100 BC by a Chinese inventor. The device was a cylinder with vertical slits in the sides and images around the inside of the cylinder. 

This is a victorian zoetrope that was recently up for sale online. 

 A phenakitoscope is another animation device, the first part of the word comes from the greek- phenakizein- meaning to deceive or to cheat, as it deceived the eye into thinking the images were moving.

The device used a spinning disk that was attached vertically to a handle. the disks centre displayed drawings showing the different parts of the animation, and had a series of equally spaced slits. When the disk was spun, people could look through the slits and see the images reflection in a mirror.

<- This is the moving version 

of the phenakitoscope that is shown below.































The kinetoscope was made for films to be viewed by one person at a time through an eye hole window at the top of the machine in 1889 by a friend of Thomas Edison. The device created the illusion of movement by moving a strip of film with images on over a light source and a high speed shutter. 

The mutoscope was similar to the kinetoscope as it didn't 
project the film onto a screen and could only be viewed one person at a time, but was cheaper than a kinetoscope. The machines were coin operated and had a series of cards resembling a flip book, however weren't bound into a booklet, and were instead attached to a circular core-  with 850 cards giving a minute of viewing time.

The thaumatrope was an animation technique that was also used as a toy in the 19th century. It is a small disk with a picture on each side that is attached to a piece of string. When the strings are twirled quickly it gives the illusion of the pictures blending together to give the persistence of vision. 

Tips for writing a good screenplay

Tips for writing a good screenplay 

• Start each scene with a slugline.

EXT/INT: Place: Day/Night.

• Coverage= Several takes.
• Setups=Camera placement.
• New scene begins when camera and lights are moved.
• When in production, team would film out of sequence usually to do everything in the same location on one day.
• Characters name is in capitals the first time they appear, then the age in brackets, then a description of the character.
• Characters and locations must be written exactly the same every time.
• You cannot hide who someone is in a screenplay.
• An intercut is going between two locations.

A post on pre production

A post on pre production...

The four phases of production are:

• Development
• Pre production
• Production
• Post production

Development ends when the script is locked by the producer, however the director is able to unlock the script in pre production if they feel that it needs changing in any way.


Who the phases include:

Development includes a producer, a screen writer, and a script editor (who checks that the script makes sense).

Pre production includes the producer, investors, the director, graphic artists, a location manager, a line producer (who handles the human resources), an artistic director, lighting designers, a gaffer (who works with the lighting designers), casting directors, and a director of photography. {Production consists of the staff shown in pre production plus actors and extras}

Post production includes the director, editors, a graphics designer, sound designer, data wrangler (who gets the data from the cameras onto the editing software) and a colour corrector.

A colour corrector is needed due to different colour temperatures. There is more red and yellow in artificial light, and more blue on light. Colour correction and colour grading is used in post production.

The workflow is the route from the camera to the final stage. You should never work with an untested work flow.

Examples of Stop Motion Animation

The Nightmare before Christmas (1993) used stop motion animation as requested by Tim burton, the creator of the poem that inspired the movie.

Steamboat Willie was one of the first animations that Disney produced in 1928.

Bugs Bunny- Bully for Bugs, 1953

Coraline- 2009