Overview
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Learn how to examine a script, review your footage, and shape your raw materials into a work of art through the process of video editing.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- What you should know before watching this course
- Defining terms
- Exploring the history of editing
- Controlling what the audience sees
- Introducing the Rule of Threes
- Introducing the Lean Forward Moment
- Identifying the log line
- Performing script and scene analysis
- Using the script and notes to determine cuts
- Coming up with an editing plan
- Creating your first cut
- Understanding when to cut and when not to cut
- Exploring the impact of cutting on and off camera dialogue
- Smoothing edits by manipulating the viewer's attention
- Keeping things fresh through multiple screenings
- Understanding the value of recutting
- Exploring the collaborative recutting process
- Working with scenes without dialogue
- Shaping moments with music
- Defining music and sound terms
- Finding the place for music
- Finding the right piece of music
- Choosing music for style and tone
- Performing internal editing of music
- Creating a world with sound design
- Combining sound design and music
- Comedy
- Action
- Television and episodic
- Documentary
- Commercial
- Music video
- Understanding style
- Mixing styles together
- Next steps
