1. AVP EDITING INTRO 1

2. IT IS VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AND VERY, VERY STRONGLY SUGGESTED THAT YOU TAKES NOTES AND PAY ATTENTION! IT IS VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED AND VERY, VERY STRONGLY SUGGESTED THAT YOU TAKES NOTES AND PAY ATTENTION!

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5. Because most of us watch so much television and see so many movies, we tend to have fairly high standards when we watch anything on video. We now expect the following features in almost everything we watch…

6. 1. A title at the beginning 2. A set of "shots" cut together in a nice way to tell a story

7. A shot is a specific subject filmed from a specific angle. For example, if you are telling the story of a kid’s birthday party, different shots from the event might include…

8.  a shot of the cake  a shot of the presents before they are opened  a shot of the all the kids at the party sitting at the table  a shot of the kid blowing out the candles  a shot of the kid unwrapping a present

9. 3. A fairly high number of shots If you watch any regular TV show, you will see that it is rare for the camera angle to stay the same for more that 10 or 15 seconds. The director will cut between different angles to keep things interesting or to make different points.

10. For example, the screen might show a man's face while he's talking for five seconds, and then switch to a shot of his hands holding a tissue (while the sound track continues uninterrupted with him talking) to show the emotion.

11. 4. Interesting transitions between the shots For example, some shots might fade into others, some might spin into others, and some cut very simply from one to another in a quick chain.

12. 5. A decent soundtrack, often involving narration and/or background music 6. Perhaps static shots (like a chart or graph) mixed in with the normal video

13. 7. Titles or legends on some of the shots to identify people, places and things 8. Slow motion or fast motion to change the tempo

14. Even if you are trying to present something as simple as your family trip to the zoo, it is nice to include as many of these features as possible in your rendition of it.

15. The more features you add, the more professional your work looks and the more attractive it is to your audience.

16. The trick is to make it look and sound natural, to try to keep it simple, to know when enough is enough, and when less is more.

17. So what exactly is editing?

18. Editing is commonly defined as collecting, preparing, and arranging materials for publication. It may also mean to revise or correct and eliminate or omit.

19. Those definitions are just as valid in the world of film and video.

20. The term editing, when talking about video or film is often used in two slightly different ways.

21. Sometimes it refers to the process of selecting and re-recording just the good footage, eliminating the bad.

22. Sometimes the term is used for the whole post-production process, including titling, effects, etc.

23. OK, so what is it? Editing (in video or film) is the process of collecting, arranging, and bringing materials together to tell a story using pictures and sounds.

24. The word materials should be understood as video footage, photographs, illustrations, animations, title graphics, sound, music, or anything else you can incorporate into the finished product.

25. For lack of a better word, you can use the word show to describe the finished product. This is because when you're done, the first thing you'll want to do is show the results of your hard work to someone else.

26. The ultimate goal of editing is to tell stories. Writers use words and sentences to craft stories; editors use pictures and sounds.

27. Joining shots together is fundamental to editing. At its most basic video or film editing is changing from one picture or scene to another.

28. In one of the oddities that persists in the film and video industry, the simplest way to join two shots together is to cut from one shot to another.

29. It's called a cut because film editors once had to cut and splice together strands of film to join two shots. Why is it called a cut?

30. There are a number of different ways to do video editing. You can buy a complete solution from a company like Avid or Final Cut at the high end, and at the low end you can use your camera and a VCR to cut things together.

31. You will see this material again!

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