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Editing Basics Outline
• Video can boost your
business and promote your work
Value-added |
Presentations |
Website Video |
Film Fests |
Promo DVDs |
Podcasts |
• Three basic types of
video: Music, Narrative, Documentary
Music |
More poetic structure,
mood, rhythm |
| Narrative |
Telling a story that's not necessarily
based in fact |
| Documentary
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Telling a story that's factually
based with images or images and narration/interviews |
• "Editing Starts
Before the Dive!"
Decide on your
Story |
Wide, Medium, Tight! |
Shot Lists & Storyboards |
Leave "Handles" |
Shoot to Edit! |
Get Transition Shots |
• Three basic aspects to
all editing systems: Capture, Build, Output
Capture |
Firewire; Logging
& Organizing Clips |
| Build
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Tackling the Blank Timeline:
Music first or Images first? It all depends!
Assembly Edit => Rough Cut
Rough Cut => Finished Video
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| Output
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Depends on your project:
To Tape // To DVD // To Website
For Podcasts // For Presentations // For Film Fests |
• Working with Audio
| Importance of Soundtracks
Music: keep it legal!
Many sources for good music (new section on this
soon!)
Narration: Use an external microphone
Ambient sound: underwater and room sound
Foley Sound Effects: adds
dimension to video |
®2006,
Mary Lynn Price |
