First principles of editing

New Zealand, 1993

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Episode number 12 of Series “Video tech”.
Focuses on basic editing principles - making the decision about what to include in a video story and what to omit. Investigates the reasons it is essential to edit - to eliminate unwanted footage, to compress time and to ultimately make a program more interesting. It also looks at the needs of in-camera editing such as planning a shoot, shooting in sequence and shot duration. It also covers the needs of editing between camcorder and VCR, setting up at home and crash editing.

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director

Lynn John

producer

John A. Givins

production company

KTV Productions

Duration

00:30:00:00

Production places
New Zealand
Production dates
1993

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Video tech

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Video tech

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