I have previously used premier but only the basic features. Within our film we wanted to include some interesting effects and images, for this we had to apply our own knowledge and find out how to use these effects and if they would work.
One effect we wanted was sections where there was just a black screen, and then flash back to the footage, like a shutter effect. To find out how to do this we used youtube.
We also decided that the memories should be in black and white. I found out how to do this on my own by playing around with some different effects.
We also wanted some of the effects to be slower as it seemed quite rushed, again I found out how to do this on my own. I knew how to change the speed of videos so I used the same strategy with the effects.
Some of our shots were too wide so we had parts that needed to be cropped. We used this video to find our how to do this.
From our feedback we were told that it would help with the understanding of the film if we had parts that were frozen and reflect the pictures in the scrapbook. This video helped us with how to do this.