If you decide to try yourself in the role of a director, producer, editor, and maybe in all other connecting roles, get ready for a lot of both creative and purely mechanical work.
Instructions
Step 1
Select the editing program. Of course, you won't be able to work without the tool itself, so get one of the many programs for mounting and processing video. It can be a bundle of Premiere Pro and After Effects, or one simple Sony Vegas program.
Step 2
Pay your attention to the functionality of the programs. For example, the first two will be more difficult to master, since After Effects is a professional set of tools for creating special effects, and the premier program, due to the large number of tools and capabilities, is a little "intimidating" for beginners. If you are not going to send your masterpiece to the Cannes festival, then it is quite possible that Vegas will be enough for you.
Step 3
Make an outline of your movie. Before proceeding with the editing, review the entire footage, divide it into categories according to importance and quality, for example, mandatory, good, low-quality materials. Try to compose the script so that fragments from the third group do not fall into it.
Step 4
When analyzing the composition of the film into scenes, sign each of them with personal comments about revisions, edits, or other auxiliary things. If in the future sound and speech will be separately superimposed, write down the words of each scene in order to easily and quickly navigate in them.
Step 5
Begin direct editing. All you have to do is follow the directions that you gave yourself on paper. Insert scenes in the order you want, crop excess and fit the frame to a single sample. Make sure that the video looks light and dynamic, do not use static frames that last more than four seconds, and change the environment as often as possible so that the viewer has a sense of the volume of what is happening and direct presence.
