so far in this course we've been dealing a lot with documentary, no non narrative style footage and editing it together, which is really different than editing a narrative such as a film or even a commercial that has a narrative style shoot. So I want to teach you and talk a little bit more about how do you edit together shots from a scene? And I'm going to be using this commercial as an example. This is a commercial that I edited and did graphics for. And this was for a company, a friend's company. So first let's watch through the commercial. Then I'm going to talk through making some of the edits and then I'll show you exactly how I go about making an edit between two different shots of the same scene. But let's go through and watch. And I actually have a quick tip for you. If you want a full screen preview of your program monitor on a Mac. Press control tilde key. If you're on a pc, it's going to be the windows tilde key. I bet the tilde key itself will just bring it kind of full sc...

reen like this. But the control tilde key, it's the key to the left of the number one on your keyboard, makes it full screen like this. So let's go ahead and watch through it and you can listen to it too. Sure. Oh there it is. The problem of the day. Say goodbye to your day off and say hello, two hours wasted on internet tutorials or giving all your money to this guy, shouldn't there be a better way we thought? So welcome to face to face D. I. Y. The very first app that puts the power of a pro in your hands, it's easy sign in select the appliance you're working on, choose the amount of time you'd like and you'll be connected to a trained technician through a live video call to walk you through the steps needed to repair your appliance yourself. So say goodbye to this guy and to all those wasted hours and say hello to Victory and taking back your day, thank you. Don't worry, we can help with that too. Welcome to a better life. Welcome to face to face D. I. Y. Hey anyways hopefully you enjoyed that commercial. It was a very low budget commercial but we tried to get a more professional feel. All the sound effects were really actually free sound effects that I found online. The coloring was done by myself. We had a buddy shoot the film and a buddy act in the film as well. Or in this commercial, the graphics that you see here, this was all done right within after effects. And that's something that I did too. So if you're interested in after effects you can do this kind of thing with screens and the buttons and the motion of you know that screen little popping out like that. So anyways, talking about the edit though With editing to between two shots here are the types of shots I'm talking about. See this first cut from him eating breakfast to the washing machine, which this is a little bit of movie magic because this washing machine isn't even in this room, this isn't a completely different part of the house. And then we have these few shots of his wife coming in and then the close up to her face and this is one of those shots where you have, we did a lot of takes and while you're shooting, you have to be very aware of what's she doing with her hands, What's he doing with his hands? What's she doing with her face? Because actually there weren't that many close ups where her face looked exactly alike and this was the closest one. Also she's moving, see I'm just gonna go frame by frame, you can see that she's stepping into place. So we had to cut right when she kind of stops moving. And then in this shot she's like just settling into her spot to moving just a little bit. And that's something that you can do while you're editing. Sometimes cutting on motion makes the edits seem more fluid as editors. What we're trying to do is to be invisible really, you don't want people noticing. Oh that was a strange cut or oh there was a cut there, you want it to be fluid. And so if that looked fluid to you, then that's achieving my goal. Some of these other shots, you know, it's not cutting from one a camera to be camera in the same scene. Another example of this is at the end where he finishes fixing the washing machine. We cut to him walking away out of that shot into this shot again. Movie magic. Just a completely different part of the that scene and then there's a close up And then it cuts back to the wide and then we actually cut to the close up again and that's a jump cut, you can see that he's there, he's going towards his phone and then he's automatically has it, that's a complete jump cut. But we had to get this commercial down to under a minute 15 seconds or so. And so that sometimes you have to do that. You have to do jump cuts to cut down time, but you've got to make it look natural without it feeling like, oh well he was there without the phone and now he has the phone, but because he's moving this way and you can kind of see what he's doing, he's moving and then he moves back in that shot, he's out of the shot, it works. If he was in the shot already without coming in right here, it wouldn't work as well. And then we cut back to the wide shot and it works perfectly. It looks like she just took the phone looking at it again, The movements not perfect. His hand motion is right there, it's coming down crossing his arms, it's coming down and he doesn't cross his arms in that shot, see that? But if you're watching it play through at real speed. It's something that you don't really notice too much. And this shot in the whole shot actually, I cut down a lot, it was a lot longer and I'm going to show you that. So let's look at that and how I would actually edit this scene. So I've I've skipped a couple steps. But basically what I do is I bring down shot a On one time track in the timeline and then I bring shot be on the next track on the timeline. And so then I find where I want to go in the beginning of this shot. So we're coming out where he's already in frame kind of wiping off his hands. So I'm going to edit this just hovering over here on the left side, pressing command to get my address. Little editor right there. So that jump cuts everything to the left and then they look to the left. So I want to I think I'm going to cut right after they look to the left. I'm not gonna do it before I can show you what it looks like before. So it would be right about here. So I'm just going to trim this over here, like so and then I just kind of match it up. So I move this to the left and then I play through it, that was a little bit too quick. So what I'll do is just nudge to the right, just a little bit and what I'm doing is just selecting this clip and pressing command right arrow on my keyboard. If I zoom in here, you can see better what I'm doing Nudging to the right, just frame at a time. Okay, that's a little bit too much. They already start to look over so we wanted to go right about there so I can just drag this over to the left, interesting, but it's a little bit, it's a little bit weird and then they have this kind of weird pause. I like this reaction better see that reaction to the noise that's happening. So I'm actually gonna cut right into there so I'm just gonna cut off the first part of this, but I'm going to cut right into there right after they look, So they look beat beat, meaning just like a little pause, look, beat and then with sound effects, we can make it sound better and feel better because there's going to be most sounds that cause these reactions from them. So that little stutter and then maybe even will come in a little bit later to this reaction. I like that reaction even better. So I'm just going to again just use my command trim tool, maybe just a little bit more, something like that's pretty good and then I would cut out of this right away, back to the next shot. But we're gonna cut this last shot just a little bit shorter. So that right when he's about to push his wife towards whatever is happening over there, we're gonna trim that, bring it back over here and we'll just shorten this just a bit. You can see that it's a lot of nudging. It's a lot of practicing. So with the final shot with sound, let's listen to it and taking back your day. Thanks. So lots of stuff going on in the background, the crashes that are causing these reactions. This wasn't something that we recorded on set. It's all done in editing. So that's a little bit more information about how you, I would edit a narrative film. How do you match together shots, the practicality of laying them on two different tracks and nudging them around. If you have other questions about this, please let me know. I've edited a lot of narrative films, short films, commercials, documentary is my specialty. And that's what I think a lot of people are using premiere pro for. So that's why I geared this course for sort of non narrative film makers. But I would love to help those of you out who are wanting to make more narrative films. Thank you so much and we'll see you in another lesson

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Editing a Narrative Scene

Editing a Narrative Scene

Lesson Info

16. Editing a Narrative Scene

Lessons

Class Introduction

Starting a New Project and Premiere Pro Orientation

Importing and Organizing

Quick Win - Stablize Your Videos

CC 2020 Updates

Quiz: Chapter 1: Introduction

Starting a New Sequence and Understanding the Timeline

Adding Clips to the Timeline, Syncing Footage, and Making Selects

Exercise Syncing Video and Audio

Exercise Review Syncing Video and Audio

Editing Tools

Adding bRoll Footage to Your Video

Adjusting Clip Size and Position

REVIEW Adjusting Clip Size and Position

Bonus - Editing Down an Interview

Editing a Narrative Scene

Update CC 2018 - Opening Multiple Projects in Premiere Pro CC 2018

Update CC 2018 - Close Gaps in Premiere Pro CC 2018

CC 2020 Update - Auto Reframe

Quiz: Chapter 2: Editing Your Video

Class Check In

Adding Video Transitions and EXERCISE

Exercise Review Video Transitions

Adding Audio Transitions

Exercise - Create a Custom Blur Transition

Trouble with Transitions

Quiz: Chapter 3: Adding Video and Audio Transitions

Update CC 2018 - New Titles in Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 - the Essential Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Animating Your Title Cards

Update CC 2018 - Saving Titles as Preset Graphics

Update CC 2018 - Essential Graphics Updates

CC 2020 Update - Underlining and Renaming Shape Layers

Quiz: Chapter 4: Creating Titles (Adobe Premiere Pro CC 2017.1 and newer)

Adjusting Audio Levels in Premiere Pro

Adjusting Audio Channels

Update CC 2017 - Editing Audio with the Essential Sound Panel

Fixing Audio with the Low and High Pass Filters

Improving Audio with EQ (Equalization)

Adjusting Audio Tracks with Effects

Exercise - Fixing Bad Audio

Exercise Review - Remove Bad Background Noise

Adding Music to Your Project and Making a Song Shorter

Easily Removing Background Noise with Audacity

Update CC 2019 - Reduce Reverb and Reduce Noise Sliders

Parametric EQ Tutorial in Premiere Pro

Remove Echo in Premiere Pro with Parametric Equalizer

Quiz: Chapter 5: Editing Audio

Color Correction with Lumetri Basics

Exercise - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Exercise Review - Fix White Balance UPDATE

Creative Tab - Lumetri Color

Curves Tab - Lumetri Color

Color Wheels - Lumetri Color

HSL Secondary - Lumetri Color

Vignette - Lumetri Color

Exercise - Matching Exposure

Exercise Review - Matching Exposure

Color Correction with Adjustment Layers

Update CC 2018 - Adding Multiple Lumetri Color Effects

Update CC 2019 - Selective Color Grading

Applying Color Effects to Specific Parts of Video with Mask Tracking

Quiz: Chapter 6: Color Correction and Grading

Adding Motion to Title Graphics

Add the Ken Burns Effect to Photos

Exercise - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

Exercise Review - Add Motion to Video to Make it More Dynamic

OPTIONAL Adding Motion to Screenshots

Quiz: Chapter 7: Motion in Premiere Pre

Exporting a High-Quality, Small File-Size Video

OPTIONAL - Export Settings - In Depth Review

Export a Full Resolution Video

Exporting Small File-Size Preview Video

Practice Exercise - Finish Class Project

Quiz: Chapter 8: Exporting Your Video