Editing a Documentary with Adobe Premiere Pro
Music, Sound Effects, and Graphics 1
A course by Martina de Alba , Visual Artist
About the video: Music, Sound Effects, and Graphics 1
Overview
“Now that you have your visuals, it's time to add sound. Here, I will support you in choosing the right music and knowing when to use it. I will also show you how to add sound effects.”
In this video lesson Martina de Alba addresses the topic: Music, Sound Effects, and Graphics 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: 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.
Partial transcription of the video
“ Music, Sound Effects, and Graphics In this lesson, I will help you find the right music and sound effects for your piece. I will also teach you how to use the graphics tool to create a title for your documentary. Let's do it. Now that we have done the structure and the story is tied and made sense to us, we'll start with the fun part, which for me is finding the music for the piece and the general feeling of it. If you remember in the other class when we were revising the script, we saw what the director wanted or was thinking about in terms of visuals for the intro on act 1 and it said, ...”
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Course summary for: Editing a Documentary with Adobe Premiere Pro
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Premiere -
Areas
Audiovisual Post-production, Photography Post-production, Video, Video Editing

Martina de Alba
A course by Martina de Alba
Martina de Alba is a Spanish visual artist, currently working as a director, producer, and editor in Los Angeles. She studied graphic design in Barcelona before moving to New York City to learn video editing which combined her passions for both graphics and music. She worked as a full-time video editor at VICE Media and, in 2016, joined The Front, a female-based media company in Brooklyn. Martina later moved to Los Angeles, where she transitioned into directing and producing.
She has worked on short documentaries for The New York Times, National Geographic, CBS, Spotify, and Apple, among others, and is currently editing documentary series for Disney+, Paramount+, and MSNBC.
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