From the course: Reels, Shorts, and TikToks: Telling Engaging Stories with Your Smartphone
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Editing and music - Instagram Tutorial
From the course: Reels, Shorts, and TikToks: Telling Engaging Stories with Your Smartphone
Editing and music
(carefree music) - Hopefully, you filmed all the footage you needed and even more. Now, let's edit it all in a storytelling manner. Editing is a powerful tool. Great directors develop relationships with camera people and editors for years and cherish them. The best directors do editing together with editors. This way, they make sure all ideas are translated. Good editing can glue a boring footage into a good story. A bad editing can kill the best footage in the world. That's how important editing is. I'm not trying to put any pressure on you. Just keep in mind that editing is a great opportunity to make your story even better. Editing for social media is quite different from editing for cinema, although some principles are applicable. First, keep in mind the attention span. It's quite short for social media. First shot should be the most impressive, most beautiful, most interesting, most, most, most. Second, the pace of cuts is fast, but not super fast. And also, if the story requires…
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