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Premiere Pro Tutorial Final

Making Coffee: I am currently in Skagway, AK on a contract. An initial thought was, wow, this place is on the Alaskan Cruise Line, yadda yadda, it’s gorgeous! There must be a million opportunities for an amazing show! Mountains actually just sit there, and without a helicopter, it is difficult to take meaningful pictures of different angles. The instructions said using the kitchen was okay, so the kitchen it was. “Making Coffee” was born.

In my first attempt, I filmed the coffee pot and cup too close together. When I went to edit, having the pot and cup in all of the same shots confused the issue as to whether or not I had 9 distinct shots of each of the two elements. I started over, filming only the coffee pot, and then filming the cup, totally separate, to ensure I ended with 9 solo shots of the coffee pot, and 9 solo shots coffee cup.

Also, I had read that I could shoot each angle all at once and splice later. I, personally, thought it would be easier to keep track of things if I shot each piece separately. It wasn’t. When I went to transfer 18 separate 10-second long files from my phone to the computer and then into Premiere Pro, I was very confused as to whether or not I really had everything I needed.

I reshot everything, again: three individual angles of each subject, close-med-wide shots, all at once, leaving me with 6 total 30-40 second shots to transfer and manipulate. It was so much easier to stay organized and it *was* very easy to cut into the necessary pieces. This way gave more meaning to why you need to have at least 10-seconds per shot, to have enough to slice properly.

Luckily the day I shot this footage was a bright day. To maximize the lighting, I opened all of the blinds in the apartment. Premiere Pro made it super easy to delete all evidence of yapping crows (there are a million here), “traffic,” etc. out and replace it with the required sound.

I had difficulty figuring out how to add the intro, and the effects. Our updated version of Premiere Pro does not have a lot of guidance videos out there on YouTube. I did the best I could to meet the requirements.

I added an extra frame in the middle to keep the viewer hanging on. I thought, the viewer may think, “I’ll keep watching! Something exciting may happen at the end!” It doesn’t. It’s just coffee.

The brand Yuban was selected specifically because I haven’t seen Yuban in decades. They still sell it (at a premium) in Skagway, AK.

WSU Video: P3: Panic, Photoshop, PSTD. The frames shake inexplicably. Whoever filmed the shots must have been drinking coffee.