Need help with class video!

[the68]

Hello,

I've gotten myself into a little bit of a place where I feel like I may have bitten off a little more than I can chew. I'm nearing the end of a months-long school. I volunteered to be the photographer for our class but didn't know until late that there was an expectation for the photographer to also put together a decent 3-5 minute photo/video slideshow of all of the footage, and even then, I was led to believe that a faculty member who is a videographer would be helping me out which upon my meeting with him turned out not to be the case. Regardless I said I'd still put something together, but a few weeks later and having tried quite a few different video editing softwares and settling on Premiere Pro I'm feeling a little lost and discouraged. I need to have something together in a little more than a week and at this point I'm just wondering if there is an easy way for me to put this footage together with a couple decent modern-looking overlays, transitions, and text effects for each photo/group of photos/video clips by downloading a simple to use template or something. As I said I have Premier Pro and have been messing around with it but honestly this will be the first video I've ever made besides simple cut/spliced youtube tutorial videos in movie maker.

Any and all help and suggestions that would help point a pure newbie like me in the right direction would be much appreciated. Thank you so much!

[the68]

I can't go into details about the nature of the school footage unfortunately because it's government related (security purposes) but I can say that the video clips are full of action and technical application of skills.

I've read about using slideshow templates in Premier, where one can download a template of sorts where everything is already kind of put together, you just input the videos/photos/text/slide duration/etc. is this true and if so, is this something that would work well for my situation?