“Storytelling and sharing the human experience are the foundation of what we do as editors.”
- Discover how to tell the human stories at the heart of all movies!
- Learn how to use montages to clearly communicate your character’s emotions and personal development.
- Explore the meaning of body language – how eyes, hands, arms and the body reveal what is in your character’s mind.
- Hollywood strategies for ingesting and organizing media no matter what NLE you work with.
- Smart workflows for editing that will help you drive the work rather than let the work drive you.
- Hands-on editing workshops where you’ll ingest, organize, assemble and edit scenes with professionally shot feature dailies.
- Practical advice to help you work quickly when the director or client is in the room with you.
- From script to polished edit and everything in between, we’ll cover everything you need to edit amazing stories.
- Conquer the art of cross-cutting to create emotional connections and add more interest to your movies.
- 4 step-by-step guides for stylizing your flashback scenes, reinforcing your edit’s structure.
- Skills and strategies that will help you to continue learning about the art of drama editing even after the course ends.
- Fascinating insights into the production process to help you better understand the materials delivered to the editor.
- The 5 types of montages typically used in dramatic films – everything from love scenes to training sequences.
- Using the power of sound effects to show what your characters are thinking.
- The best ways to output your finished film for presentation and delivery.
- Polishing your finished edit with color grading and audio mixing.
- Proven techniques to help pace your story, when to let a moment linger and when to draw it out.
- How to make montages that are easy to follow by carefully crafting the music and shot choice.
- Breakdowns of the dramatic editing techniques used in popular movies.
- Creating smooth transitions between scenes as you assemble the edit.
- The power-user techniques for laying out your audio tracks and mixing audio.
- Delve inside the mind of experienced Hollywood editors as you watch them edit.
- A thorough breakdown of the 12-stages of the hero’s journey – the foundation upon which countless stories are built.
- Amazing visual effects techniques for combining performances from different takes.
- The simple but effective rule that helps you to maintain spatial continuity when editing your scenes.
- Filmmaking essentials and fundamental principles that every editor should know.
- Learn how to arrive late and leave early to stop your edits from getting boring!
- How to build stories and add production value with sound effects and foley.
- Using foley and library sound effects to immerse the audience in your character’s world.
- Learn how there is a dramatic story at the heart of almost every film.
- Unlock the principles of dramatic film editing that will help no matter what genre you work in.
- Cross-cutting tips that will help you quicken the pace in boring parts of your edit.
- The techniques for breaking down dailies to facilitate quick and easy editing.
- Powerful universal rules for understanding the underlying story structure of traditional Hollywood movies.