Squares and Rectangles in Premiere - 23/01/2024

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 As our first assignment for our second semester we were instructed to create a short visual piece in Adobe Premiere Pro 2024 of several squares and rectangles moving across the screen to demonstrate our skills in position and scale manipulation within the programme, in a short 5 - 10 second sequence. Personally as someone who had decent experience with Premiere beforehand, this wasn't particularly difficult to do, though we were shown easier methods for how to create our piece. The first step was to import a black video into the sequence to serve as the base. Second, we added in a while colour matte to serve as our rectangle. After manipulating the shape of the rectangle by disabling uniform scale in the shape's effect controls , our next task was to have the rectangle slide from the left of the shot to the right, which we did by using Premiere's keyframing feature on the rectangle's position.

After this we experimented with various other movements and shapes within the programme, such as spinning shapes, shapes moving diagonally, different blending effects and adding colour to some of the blocks and rectangles. In order to save time on changing each keyframe and position of each square and rectangle, we separated certain movements into their own sequences where in which they could be flipped, reversed or manipulated in some other way, then imported back into the main sequence. We also experimented with chroma-keying footage onto some of the shapes in separate sequences to add back into the main one. For my chroma-key I chose some old rotoscoped buggy footage I created for a photoshop assignment from last semester, which ended up turning out pretty good. Below is a screenshot of my workspace while I was experimenting with different movements.


Overall while not particularly teaching me anything new about premiere, I very much enjoyed this assignment as a smooth and simple introduction to my first semester. Hopefully this little exercise from today can give me some ideas later for more intricate and detailed artefacts that can improve the quality of my work and serve to enhance the diversity of what I can produce.

Below is a Google drive link to the final short sequence I ended up producing at the end of the day, with a total of 16 layers.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10M9SPViZo0TrOfprHCH3rOYbgDQHmtdY/view?usp=sharing

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