Week 27 in AICE Media Studies

Introduction

    This was our last week working on our film introduction. We finished filming and moved into the editing process.

What I Did

    This time around for editing, I faced another learning curve due to Adobe Premiere Pro updating to the 2025 version, and some of the past tool locations had changed. I started off with uploading all of our footage and labeling each clip.

    Then I moved all of the clips onto the timeline in order and started to trim them down using the razor tool. I also added transitions to some of the clips. Once everything lined up, I started to work on our title, which appears at the end of the introduction.

    Next, I started adding audio. I use Pixabay for audio since it is all royalty-free and requires no attribution. Now that I had all my audio clips, I added them to the timeline, trimmed them down, and added transitions to each.

    After everything looked good, flowed smoothly, and was in order, I started adding the credits. I dispersed them throughout the introduction to mimic a real-world film.

What I Learned

    I learned how to flicker, skew, fade out, and warp text. To flicker the text, I first had to add a text box and type what I wanted. Then, I went into the effects search bar and looked up "strobe." I then applied the strobe effect to the text and adjusted the speed, allowing it to flicker faster. Next, I changed to strobe color so that the text would appear more red.

    To skew the text, I had to double-click on a pre-existing text box in the timeline and apply a transform effect to the text. Once the effect was added, I could skew the text with a slide bar from the effects control panel that opened up.

    Then to fade out the text, I had to add a linear wipe effect to the text. Then, put the transition completion to zero, moved forward a few seconds on the timeline, and changed the transition completion to 100 percent. Next, I added another linear wipe to the text but on the end of the text box and repeated the previous steps.

    Lastly, to warp text, I used the same process for skewing the text. However, instead of using the skew slider in the effects control panel, I used the warp slider. Both effects work similarly.