As it has been made fairly obvious I have quite a few technical issues when it comes to working with computers… sadly that made this project quite a bit more challenging than it originally had to be. If I had a basic understanding of computers I would not have needed to waited and ask how to do most of the parts of this project. The first problem I had was one to kick off the great time I had working on this project. I had to install the Premiere software a good three times because something happened that blocked the software from being able to be installed. It took me two days to figure out how to install it. Once I figured out how to install the software my problems sadly continued. I had to try and figure out how to download videos off the public domain sites which was easy on some of the sites, but on others there were more than one download option to choose from. I was no aware of which option I was supposed to choose on those sites. Then I would just download every possible option so I was left with a bunch of the same video in my download folder. This was not a big problem but I do not like having a bunch of useless files taking up space on my computer, I prefer to save that room for all the projects I have done since eighth grade instead. My next problem after this was trying to find where all my files were. Luckily once I learned how to find one of them I was able to find them all without a problem. One thing I really did enjoy about this project was getting to watch all kinds of different animal clips. Through this project I think I found my favorite animal clip of all time. It was also interesting being referred to different YouTube videos since I learned some interesting stuff about animals.

Even though I had quite a few problems with this project I am glad we did it because I learned the basics of using Adobe Premiere.  From what I experienced I think Premiere seems to be a fairly useful tool for a lot of different projects, I know I will use it in the future. For the most part the basics of Premiere were very self-explanatory. Once I learned how to find the cutting tool on my version of Premiere I was golden, well until I had to do something else with the computer. I was very happy about this because in my past adobe experiences I wanted to rip my hair out when I tried to do the simplest thing. Through all those experiences I learned Adobe is like math, if it seems easy you are doing it wrong. I assume this applies to premiere as well but I never did anything besides cutting and pasting videos and music. All the problems I had with this project were very small problems I was either able to google the answer to or ask for assistance once. Then after that one time I was able to do it on my own. I think my project should have come out fairly well as long as none of my videos turn out to be blurry. But I tried to make my video clips as actuate to the ecosystem as I possible could by using a mix of the video from Youtube and the public domain websites. All and all I believe this was a successful project…until I have to figure out how to upload it.

Click on the transition you want. Then grab the transition and drag it in between the clips you want it to be between. This should be on the red line. When you have successfully done this there will be a small gray box on the line in between the two clips.

First you have to hover over the middle of two separate clips. When you are in the middle of both of them the mouse should turn to a red strip in the middle of both clips. Click on the red strip so it doesn’t go away when you move the mouse off it. 

Now go up to the right hand corner where it says effects. Click on effects. under effects a list should pop up and one of the options is transition. click on video transition. Then a bunch of different video transition options should show up.

For my project proposal I have come up with the idea to make my video follow the life of a bunch of different under sea creatures onto some land creatures and back to undersea creatures. The video starts out zooming in on a herring coming into the water from on land. Then it cuts to a bunch of white birds swimming. Then they go under water and the video pans to fish just swimming around. Then then it goes into a coral reef. Then it goes to another fish eating a smaller fish. From there another fish that looks the same is eaten by a shark. Then the shark breaches and eats a seal. After the seal is eaten the video goes to a pod of dolphins jumping out of the water. Then the video goes from the dolphins to a killer whale. The killer whale goes and eats a penguin. I’m not exactly sure where it goes for a little while after that. But eventually a penguin goes in the water and sees a fish. The fish gets away though. Then it goes back onto fish. As the video goes the fish get bigger and bigger and scarier. At a point it is going to be obvious they are in another part of the ocean. The ocean goes to a river where an alligator or a crocodile mulls some kind of animal, then eats it. Then there is another video of an alligator or crocodile swimming away off into the distance. After that happens the video ends zooming in on an aye aye whose eyes get bigger and bigger as the video goes on. I liked this ending because it is almost like the aye aye is scared about what is happening in the eco system. He is afraid he is going to be next. I also thought he was really cute too so I want him to be a part of my video anyways.