{"id":75,"date":"2022-10-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kimberlyvela.com\/blog\/?p=75"},"modified":"2022-10-25T17:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T22:03:01","slug":"learning-experience-digital-video-editing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kimberlyvela.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/04\/learning-experience-digital-video-editing\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Experience: Digital Video Editing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It&#8217;s Tuesday, October 4, 2022, and today is the end of my 5-week Foundation Skill: Digital Video Editing class at Columbia College Chicago. I walked into this class never having downloaded or opened Premiere Pro, and have left with 1 practice video, 1 short film, and a lot of new knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For our practice video, we simply needed to film three clips from different angles and learn how to edit as we followed along in class.<br>First I showed a high view from Columbia&#8217;s Student Center, then a worm&#8217;s eye view of Union Station, and finally an eye-level view of the Metra trains at Union Station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Digital Video Editing: Practice Videos\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/czDoTTxXPiA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The part I struggled with most was the cropping: every time I would cut a clip, I would have to move everything up, over and over. Or if I wanted to extend something, I would have to move everything back, again and again. It wasn&#8217;t a huge obstacle, and I&#8217;m sure there&#8217;s a way to streamline that process, but that was from my experience as a beginner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For my final short film, I decided to make a mundane horror video. I&#8217;ve always enjoyed filming still-life type videos of daily occurrences, like traffic, people walking, trees blowing in the wind, people cooking, and more. I also love horror, and I had planned on making a horror film from the moment I registered for the class. So, I decided to mix the two. This is a concept I&#8217;ve seen been done before anyway: the horrors that are (or can be) present in everyday life.<br>Mini-warning: it is a &#8220;horror&#8221; film, so you <em>might<\/em> get spooked. Haha!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Digital Video Editing: Mundane Horror\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tzw6rlO7Dao?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>What I found surprisingly easy was the filming and gathering of the clips. I first started with a handful of scenes, and then I compiled them and edited them into a whole video. After watching it, I would see that some scenes were too long, repetitive, or missing something. I would think of clips I could put in to improve the video, film them, and then immediately insert them. After repeating this process again and again, I finally had the video I wanted. Yes, it was probably more tedious than it needed to be, but I think it worked out perfectly. As a full-time student, it was better to film and add as I worked, rather than waste a whole day filming scenes that I wouldn&#8217;t even use in the end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I really enjoyed planning my films out, filming them, and compiling them into videos I was proud of, so I&#8217;m making a promise to myself to continue to create videos! 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