The first thing to be aware of is why you are lighting your set. Lighting makes the set look better on camera, but again, why? The answer to this is actually quite simple. When you see something with your eyes, you see it in three dimensions. Because the camera has only one lens, it "sees" in two dimensions. One of the most important purposes of your lighting is to create an illusion of depth in the picture.

Chromakeyer is basically a device which replaces everything of one particular colour with parts of another picture. This technique is known to most people, although normally they refer to it as "green screening" or something similar. Keying (there are other varieties, such as luma-keying or green screen keying) is used in a huge variety of films and television programmes to achieve all sorts of effects. Almost every time you see a close up of Harrison Ford dangling off a cliff in Indiana Jones, it is chromakeyed. All that stuff in The Matrix was chromakeyed (although they had a lot of other stuff going on too). Pretty much every scene in Star Wars episode one was keyed together (excluding the ones that didn't exist outside a computer in the first place), and then Jar-jar Binks was keyed on top of that (unfortunately).

The title window is where you create all your text pages and rolling captions. The main section of the window, contains your title in all its glory. On the left is your toolbox, and at the top (on the menu bar, in the Mac OS version) is the title window, where you can select fonts, type justification, and other text formatting options.The toolbox contains the select tool (top left), colour select tool (top right), text tool (next down), and rolling text tool (bottom left). In between, are various shape drawing tools. Apart from the line tool, these all have two modes (depending on which half of the icon you select): unfilled shapes (left) or filled shapes.

This tutorial is based on Adobe Premiere 5.1 for Apple Mac. The Windows version is very similar but newer versions of Premiere (version 6+) are slightly different. Adobe Premiere is based around 3 main windows: the project window, the monitor window and the timeline window. The other two windows you can see here are less important, but useful nonetheless. They are : the transitions menu and the navigator window.

Premiere's video filters allow you to create a large selection of special effects, as well as letting you adjust the colour balance or contrast of your video. When you choose to apply filters to a video clip, the window on the right will pop up. On the left of this window is a menu showing all the available filters, and on the right is a list of all the filters currently applied to the clip. Filters can be easily added, removed or adjusted, and any number may be applied to the same clip.

Transparency effects such as chromakeying and lumakeying can be easily applied to a clip through the transparency menu.

The timeline window is where you assemble your grand vision. Placement of all your video and audio clips is controlled by placing them on the timeline, which forms the main area of the timeline window, with various buttons and tags at the left hand edge.

The project window is the main footage library for your project. In it you can see the names of all the footage in your project, and some other information about those footage files, such as duration, and how many times you have used them on your timeline. Whenever you import video, or audio files into your project they are added to the list in the project window. Any footage you capture must also be imported and added to the project window.This can be done through the file menu>import options: file, folder, multiple or project. There are also keyboard shortcuts for each of these options. Additionally, double clicking in empty space in the project window allows you to import a single file.

The motion settings are accessed my selecting clips>video>motion. This window allows you to move, spin, twist, and distort the shape of video. You are automatically given two keyframes (start and end), and you cannot add more. Unhelpfully, the default settings assume that you want to scroll the picture from the top to the bottom of the screen, which is one thing I have personally never done, but it is easy to change the settings to achieve the effect you do want.

Perform basic trims and then quickly overlay or insert clips by dragging them directly to the Timeline from the Project window.