VIDEO EDITING

Salam...

After we have been exposed to audio editing and picture editing techniques, this week’s class was more focusing on the video editing. In short, there were three main methods in producing our own video, which were using pictures, edited videos, and professionally video commercial. Most of us prefer to choose pictures for our coming assignment, in which we have to create our own video in pairs. This is because of the originality of ideas, which can be seen when we selecting the most suitable pictures to match with our theme and concept. Pn Foziah already stressed that this task was not the educational one, and this is like a golden opportunity for me to widen my scope of concept, in which more space of creativity can be put in. The most important thing in making video is the message. The video can be said successful if the message is conveyed to the viewer and appeal to their heart. There is no point of creating such a wonderful, eye-catching video when the message is not clear or blur to the viewers. Since both of us were nature-lovers, we have agreed to choose the concept of nature as the essence in our video clip.

Besides that, Pn Foziah also displayed the video made by two pairs of my senior, and I really astonished on the way they creatively use pictures in making the video. One video is about friendship, and another one is about life. Moreover, I can see how my senior applied the picture editing and audio editing techniques in producing both videos. Although this task was quite easy, a good plan is needed along the video-making process, so that a clear message may be conveyed to the viewers. Software like Cyberlink Power Director and Windows Movie Maker will be very much practical to be used in this assignment.

In addition, we also received another task which is video-editing assignment, in which we have to edit one of the most high-rated television programme on 8tv, which is ‘So you think you can dance’ in group of five. Two main techniques were stressed here, and they were joining and splitting techniques. Besides that, we have to just choose parts in the episodes that show the dance, joining them, and label them according to the specific dancers. This task was quite hard for us since the holiday is so near and the due was during the holiday. However, I and my group will try our best to finish this video editing assignment.