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I had finished creating all of my videos that were necessary for the production, I had a little bit of difficulty rendering, as the play back was really jolty, so I played around with the render set up settings and rendered the clips in lots of different formats until the play back was sufficient, I ended up rendering the clips as .MOVs as it deemed to be the best playback quality, despite other colleagues managing to render out in .AVI

I imported all of my clips into premiere pro and then arranged them according to the story line, I clipped out all of the unnecessary clips, because I made sure that I had enough time to cut clips. I staggered the clips in premiere so that they were easier to work with and view, I arranged all of the clips and then I needed something to break the clips up from one another instead of just jumping to the next clip, to do this I went into the effects option and here I could add video transitions, there is a wide variety of transitions which I could have placed on my animation, I tried lots of different ones, however because the animation is only 30seconds long plus the introduction, they couldn’t get the full effect, so I had to use simple ones like fade in, or dip to black, these still gave a great effect and made the clips interlink much smoother and more professional looking.

I then needed to search for music and sound effects, I searched for ages online looking and listening to loads of different effects, and I struggled to find sufficient sounds for my animation, so I decided that I would try and get the actual sounds from the film, to do this I went onto YouTube and found some star wars scenes, and used a YouTube converter to use the sound, I then cropped the MP3 so I could use specific parts of the sound to fit the animation. I also found Music which fitted perfectly in the animation, however it was far too loud and overpowering the sounds, so I managed to change the settings and reduced the volume of the music so that it was just in the background.

Youtube, 2012. Star Wars The Phantom Menace Battle of Naboo Scene [Online] Available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qZJ85MdS-g
[Accessed 09/05/2013]

Youtube, 2011. Star Wars Music Medley [Online] Available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apQV73pHBQ0
[Accessed 09/05/2013]

Youtube, 2012. Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Music (OST) [Online] Available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMICaNfZc_U
[Accessed 09/05/2013]