Digital Storytelling Class Presentation

1. Editing a New Project
Page 184-205
By: Carolyn Pinto
and Isabelle Mazzucca

2. Post Production Editing
Why video editing?
Where to start your editing?
Basic concepts of video editing
Rearranging Time
Logic/Artistic Sensibility/Conventions of visual
storytelling

3. Editing a Sequence
Nonlinear Editing
Shot Variety
Types of Shots: Master/Tight/Medium/Wide/
POV/ Interview
Sequence

4. Master Shot
Tight Shot
Interview
Wide Shot
Medium Shot
POV
Shot

5. Organizing Edits
Ingesting:
Keyword your clips
Change clip thumbnail
Batch rename
Rate footage
Add notes

6. Editing Techniques
Matched Action
Continuity
Parallel Editing/Cross-Cutting
Axis of Action
Slow Motion
Color Correction
• Stabilization
• Effects
• Flashback
• Montage
• Pacing

7. Definite Rules of Editing
Preserve Emotion
Seek Movement
Predict Eye Movement
Establish Rhythm
Maintain Screen Direction
Enter Frame/Exit Frame

8. Activity
Find a YouTube clip that encompasses
one or more of the editing techniques that
have been discussed.
Share your findings with the class!