Video Editing Project Ideas

Sports Promo

Styles & Skills

Fast Cuts

Titles

Exemplars

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a08Us3V_gaw

New node

Brief

The BBC need a 30-40 second promo for the new season of sports. You must choose 5 sports and download 5 clips of each sport from BBC Motion Gallery. Cut the clips so they are all less than 2 seconds long and keep the clips grouped together by sport. Add a title for each section of sports, followed by the closing title "BBC Sport 2010".

Advert Remix

Styles and Skills

Trim & Split

Audio edit

Transitions and time effects

Brief

An ad agency has asked you to recut an existing advert but to change its style. E.g. Take a fast paced ad like the Citroen robots (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSFDNxKH6rc) and recut it to make it slower paced/more dreamlike etc. Cutting it into seperate clips then using time stretch, transitions etc. Add appropriate music and SFX and keep the whole ad so it remains the same length.

Shortened Advert

Styles & Skills

Basic Cuts

Audio Edit

Brief

An ad agency wants you to recut an existing 60 second (or longer) advert into a 20 second advert. Now that people have seen the longer version we can buy smaller time blocks from the TV companies - but we still have to keep the core message and style of the advert.

Movie/ Film Trailer Remix

Styles and Skills

Edit/Add music

Possible New Title

Recut/reorder/redub footage

Retrieve and edit new footage

Brief

Find or choose a movie or movie trailer and remix it to change the genre and audience expectations of what they will see... like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2T5_0AGdFic and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVjl7gK4HGU

Public Info movie

group work

select & edit clips

example brief: create a short video from supplied clips (raw, edit as necessary) to increase awareness of law on driving & mobile phones. You may want to delete original sound track from video clips and add a voiceover/soundtrack. time limit as required.

teacher + TA (and poss students) shoot variety of clips of staged driver + accident for raw clips

complete storyboard or timeline

or use given storyboard/timeline outlining general sequence but not full detail

basic chromakey

Brief: act as a news reporter for sports day/school event/short science topic/etc. Edit given 'story' clip.Create the overlay video and combine the two. Could include paired work ie 2 news presenters with joint intro and combine their individually produced news items.

Skills - blue screen/green screen

School based short-drama

Styles & Skills

Scripting & Storyboarding

Filming

Range of generic editing techniques

Brief

Read the storyboard at http://voyager.egglescliffe.org.uk/mwc/resources/Mitchell.pdf and complete your own script and/or storyboard. You must then film the story and use appropriate editing techniques.

TV News Report

Styles and skills

Chroma Key (optional)

Filming styles, Studio, On location, Interview

Basic cutting and editing techniques

Picture in Picture (optional)

Brief

Work in teams to create a news broadcast for a real/fictional/historical event (excellent eg: http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AYyjmm9u5o50ZGhzeGc5ZzZfMWNteno5Z2Nu&hl=en