Description
Students in this 1-credit summer course will learn the fundamentals of video editing. The course will introduce basic editing principles such as montage and narrative continuity before expanding our focus to the power of editing as the fundamental language of cinema. Students will edit a variety of short-form projects ranging from a short action scene, a dialogue scene and a short documentary. We will study each other’s edits, learning to see the differences in each approach and how those differences reveal editing as the invisible art of filmmaking. We will explore how the combination and order of shots manages to convey both information and emotion and how the art of editing works to shape story. We will consider the filmmaker’s intention and ask if a cut works and, if it does, why it works. Just as importantly, we will ask why a cut does not work. We will explore the tools of digital editing and how they can be used to achieve the filmmaker’s desired artistic results. The clas