Editing: Experimentation

     Today was the second day we had in class to edit out commercials together. We began by having Rashawn show us what he had so far. He ended up transferring our work to Adobe Premeair cut Pro so we got to see that program too. 

  We then began to tinker with the lighting a little bit and ended up settling with more lighting than before. We also experimented with different sounds or music clips but we ended up staying with what we had before. 

  While watching Rashawn edit we all became curious about how the program he uses worked. I am learning a bit of adobe due to my marketing essentials but only the photoshop aspect. I know next to nothing of Premiere Cut Pro. So Rashawn came up with a proposal. He decided to make us a copy file and we each fiddled around with the software a little bit which was quite fun. 

  We used the lighting options to put a black and white box over our faces and watched some clips play by, that feature was my personal favorite. We also speed up and slowed down some shots, which was pretty entertaining. 

  Rashawn also taught us a lot about layering and why it is so important. Layering allows one to put a layer with certain characteristics on top of the original media. This allows you to edit or add things to the initial media without potentially harming the media. An example of when you would add a layer is when you want to add something like the black and white lighting change without harming the original video. 

  Overall today was another fun day of editing. I have wanted to learn more about editing for a long time and this finally gave me a good opportunity to learn a bit hands-on from someone experienced like Rashawn. It is fun tinkering with software, especially if it is for the first time. Rashawn was also very understanding with us and showed us a lot in the software

  Here is a guy in front of a computer because we worked in front of a computer.