Editing a Documentary with Adobe Premiere Pro

Learn to tell real-life stories that inspire an audience by exploring creative shooting and editing techniques, from the initial structure to the finished video

• Introduction
• The Theory
• Watching, Organizing Footage, and Editing
• Finishing Touches
• Final project

Telling real-life stories through documentaries is a way to help people understand situations and inspire them to change for the better. Through editing, you can reveal conflict, play with time, show each character’s point of view, and keep your audience mesmerized. Visual artist Martina de Alba specializes in editing, producing, and directing compelling documentaries for clients including The New York Times, National Geographic, and CBS.

In this online course, she teaches you her editing techniques to tell engaging stories that evoke emotion. Learn to create a short documentary in Premier Pro step by step, from the structure to the finished cut. Find your narrative voice through documentary editing.

• About Me
• Influences
• What Will We Do in This Course?
• Elements of a Documentary
• Elements of a Documentary: Montage
• The Kuleshov Effect
• Defining Shot Types in Cinematography
• Prepping the Project File 1
• Prepping the Project File 2
• Prepping the Project File 3
• Basic Documentary Structure
• Music, Sound Effects, and Graphics 1
• Music, Sound Effects, and Graphics 2
• Music, Sound Effects, and Graphics 3
• Color Correction
• Finessing and Exporting
• Editing a Documentary with Adobe Premiere Pro