Software - Adobe Premiere.

In my personal development plan I have stated that I would like to learn how to use new and different software to what I have been used to in the past few years. This was a good point to state as we have started to use Adobe Premiere for another brief that we have. I have never used this software before and it is something that is totally new to me, I can't really say that I have an interest, nor will i have an interest again to produce a time based piece using video - therefore im not sure that I will ever use this software again but it is good that I have this time to learn how to use it, getting advice from my tutors on how to navigate the software as well as simply learning my own way around it but messing around with it to see what different things can be done.

To start with we had a tutorial in which I was taught some of the basics of the software -

 

Things like how to open a new sequence where you create your video, a little bit about the video sizes and such, how to import image and video files into premiere to work with, how to select the video and audio files and adding them to the time piece, using the video or the sound only. The little markers that help you to define the areas of a video to select and a bit about the different audio and video effects that are available on the programme itself. 

Having been shown in the simplest way possible how to use the software i must admit that I was still pretty mind boggled and confused with the software. However as I have been messing around with the software over the past few days i have gained a better understanding of how to use it, obviously i'm not extremely confident with using the software cause there is still things that i don't know but i could manage to piece a video together now and know what i was doing whereas a few weeks ago i would not of had one clue where to start.

Mini assignment.

We were set a mini assignment to produce stock type photographs to go along with the points that I have stated I wanted to develop on within my personal development plan. I did a very quick presentation stating the different points to my peers and along with my images.


Developing skills on different software - such as Adobe Premiere;

Develop studio lighting skills;

Reading more / more knowledge about photographers;

 

This was a quick and easy mini assignment that I quite enjoyed, at first I wondered what types of photographs I could take that would look like stock images but to be honest stock images are pretty much anything so I just went with what I felt looked and worked best. 

PDP

I have started to fill out my personal development plan outlining the different areas that I want to further my experience in, at the moment there are three different point within my PDP, they are pretty simple and easily completed objectives (shown below). I am going to post the different staged of how i completed these objectives on this blog as and when I complete them.

What are my development objectives? [what skills, knowledge or experience am I missing?]	What activities do I need to undertake to achieve my objectives?	What support/resources do I need to achieve my objectives? [what can the course offer?]	Target date for achieving my objectives	Actual date of achieving my  objectives
Developing skills on different software.	Learning how to use the software and the way it works. Experimenting with the different features it has and learning how to develop my own videos.	Basic training on how to use the software and then the time to experiment with its features.
Developing studio based skills -  lighting / studio set up.	Learning about the different types of lighting and what they can be used for, spending time experimenting with the lighting in the studio.	Information on how to set up the studio, the different types of lighting and their uses, how to get the best out of the studio resources.
Reading more books.	Read different books with different subject matters to gain more knowledge.	Access to books from the library, lots of books with different subject matters.