Wide Screen Editing

I thought I would spend some time today editing some footage and making it appear as a widescreen production. In order to do this I required the use of YouTube and the online tutorials produced by other users in order to show me exactly how to perfect this skill. I downloaded a clip of a music video produced by Olly Murs that I planned to use for my testing, this video clip is shown below.

I then began by opening up Adobe Premiere Pro and importing my clip into the clip bucket. I then began editing my clip and going by the YouTube tutorial in order to add titles over my clip and make it appear as a widescreen production.

I simply created a black block for the bottom and the top of my clip, I then adjusted to size and positioning of my clip to fit everything in and make sure that none of my clip was being blocked out by the black blocks that create the widescreen effect. The screenshot included below shows me doing exactly this, the white blocks on the bottom and the top are the sections that are going to be blacked out.

Having done this I feel that I am now in a much stronger position, I now know exactly how to create this effect and exactly the type of feel that this brings to my production. I now plan to use this effect within my production and will take this into mind when filming in terms of the framing that I use for my  recording.