My first premiere pro editing exercise

First of all, we learnt the basics around a camera. Always have the camera set to manual so it doesn't control it for you. We learnt how to fix the aperture, ISO, and shutter speed to correct it to the right exposure. The shutter speed always has to be on the lowest so 3.5, if i am zoomed in it would be bigger. The bigger the aperture the more exposure. We learnt the way around the correct settings in the menu, there are so many i cant remember what each one was set to unfortunately. The ISO tends to be low so 100-200, this will be less grainy and darker. With the aperture i know that the larger the aperture (Which is the smaller number f/1.4), the more light is let it. The smaller (which is the bigger number f/22), the smaller the hole is and the less light shines through. To know we had the right exposure we had to look at the little line with and arrow at the bottom of the screen. The arrow would move up and down depending on your exposure and if it was in the middle on O, you'd know whether it is exposed correctly. We learnt how to focus correctly, using the white square and pressing on the main subject in the camera and then slightly pressing the button to get it focused. We learnt how to create a shallow depth of field, focusing on a close up image with a further back image behind it, blurry. I put the white square on the object in front and focused on it to create the blurriness of the object behind it. 

We learnt to import our footage onto the mac computers, ready to start editing. Having to make all different folders in premiere pro and the documents. This helps us stay organised and focused on where our footage is so we never waist time trying to find it. In premiere pro we made three folders, one for footage, one fore audio, one for graphics. On the documents, we made one big folder with our names and what the task we are doing. Inside of that folder we place another footage and audio folder so its not all over the place. We then imported our footage to the correct folders in our documents. We double tapped in the footage folder in premiere pro and selected all our footage so it appears in the folder.     
     
We were given the exercise to create a rough editing piece, adding in all the different skills and tools to make it effective. Starting of with just simply cutting the moving image to the length by pressing the I key for the input and then pressing the O key for the output, and then how to drag it down to the editing timeline. Once we had our baseline of all the footage we wanted put together, we learned how to create a fade in at the start. We select all the footage and move it forward to create a black space at the beginning. We then grabbed the pen tool and click at two different points, at the start and end of the first footage and drag down the first dot to the bottom to create the fade in. if we wanted to create a fade out it would be the same just pull the last dot down instead of the first. We also learnt how to add in a cross dissolve along with loads of other transitions. If to right click in the middle of two clips, press default transitions it will automatically put in a cross dissolve for you that you can move as long or as short as you want it. We deleted all the ambient sounds and replaced them with the music we downloaded of a free music sight.