Video Editing Basics

Digital Literacies students will tackle the software to edit video - with a view to producing their own video projects for the course. While editing software is only a tool - and is useless or worse without guiding principles of design and communication - tools are still important. Tools shape the "rhetoric" of our compositions. (See comments from Kittler on Nietzsche's typewriter.) So - Students will delve into learning the tools by:

• Watching an Introduction to Premiere Pro.
• Creating a sample project that involves:
• importing photos, videos, and music
• mixing music with video and photos
• video transitions
• audio transitions
• titles
• Working through more tutorials independently at http://helpx.adobe.com/premiere-pro/topics.html