News Editing Techniques (YMGA252)
This course aims at introducing the students the practical and intellectual skills necessary for a video production with the new digital technological developments especially for TV and online news where the viewers’ attentions tend to drift after a minute or two. The focus of the course is to help the potential TV and new media journalists, camera and editing operators to experience the principles and techniques of editing as the most critical step in the post-production process of any TV and new media production that have a few precious moments to establish a scene, introduce characters, advance a plot line and inform, surprise or entertain with a sharp focus. The students of this course will learn how to use to build specific shooting, recording and editing techniques that calls on a range of skills, from the technical to the artistic, and it's easy to get caught up in the nuances of shot composition or equipment operation.