Free Trials and Errors

Turns out my movie is longer than I expected it to be.
I finished a draft of the movie, and it's currently 9 minutes and 19 seconds. I'm quite happy about this. When I was filming it (I might have mentioned before) I thought it was going to be less than five minutes. In this case, I'm glad I was wrong.
Okay, let me backtrack a little bit. I was working with Premiere Pro with this one. A Premiere Pro one month free trial to be exact. I wanted to learn it before I decided to buy it, so I thought that this editing movie was a perfect opportunity to learn this program. After a few trials and errors, I got the hang of it. Unsurprisingly it is very different to iMovie and Final Cut Pro. Premiere Pro gave me more options and it also made everything as complex as it could be. I am sure there are reasons for that, but right now.... I don't know what they are.
Anyway,
I'm going to show my mentor what I have right now. After a little bit more editing in Premiere Pro, I'm planning to move my work to Speed Grade, where I will color correct my movie. To make it look more..... cinematic looking. If that makes sense.

More Disappointments

End of February/all of March was full of learning experiences. When I started to edit my movie, I decided on a few things.

1. I was going to teach myself new programs (Premiere Pro, After Effects, Speed Grade) to edit my movie.
2. My movie title will be "Stuck in Neutral".
3. I wanted a nice animation for my title. 

However, though #3 took most of my time, I wasn't able to use it in the end. I learned how to use After Effects (well, the basic techniques), and I didn't have a problem at all. When I finished my animation, I had trouble exporting it to a media file. Which was/is very inconvenient. I spent a week or so (totally not procrastinating the actual editing part of the movie) trying to use different settings to get my beautiful animation to export. But alas, nothing worked. 

I'm still trying to figure this out, but I've already used my alternative plan. 

You live and learn, I guess. 

Here is what it WAS supposed to look like (before technology decided to rebel against me)