Sample Editing Portfolio

Editing is more than just pushing buttons. It means telling a story with images and sounds. In this portfolio collect at least three of the following:

• A group of still images, arranged in a sequence that tells a story.

   

• Storyboards for your practice project or final tape.

   

• A segment of videotape (rough or final) from your group's work.

   

• Any videotape from other producers that give you editing ideas for your own work.

   

• Other visual art (charts, graphics, titles), original or otherwise, that you have used in your piece.

   

• Music or sound effects you have created for your tape.

Five things proficient editing does:

• Tells a story with a beginning, middle, and end.

   

• Tells a story that is relevant and meaningful to a youth audience.

   

• Maintains consistent sound levels.

   

• Edits are clean.

   

• Edits are logical in content (idea, dialogue) and composition (framing, camera movement).

Four things masterful editing does:

• Presents central themes in a coherent and compelling way.

   

• Advances the story even with the sound off.

   

• Layers images (action, titles, effects) and sounds (dialogue, narration, music, effects) in ways that add ideas or feelings to the story.

   

• Uses rhetorical techniques such as: point/counterpoint, emphasis, contrast or contradiction, building tension expanding or contracting time.