From the course: Video Editing Techniques for Impactful Content

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Editing breakdown, part one

Editing breakdown, part one

So this is the intro video, which I'm really proud of. It took me a lot of time to film it, but as I told before that I would use the contrast editing technique in this video. So I already planned everything that all the yellow marked clips would be the clips with no sound, and all the blue ones would have some sort of B-roll. So the first shot, what you can see here is that there's a bit of blur, and the footage is already zoomed in. And if I move, I'm just moving one frame at a time. And on the fourth frame, I already have myself just talking normally. And why I did that, that was to grab audience's attention. I am almost treating this video as a short form video because Skillshare is also a platform where you have to really grab and impress people already in the beginning so that they can end up watching the entire class because I know this class is good, but if I have a really bad introduction, they would be like, "Oh, this class is not worth my time." So that's what I wanted to…

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