The editing thinking that novice students should know when editing.

What is editorial thinking? Does it matter? How to cultivate

Editorial thinking is actually "editing", and "editing" refers to the processing and arrangement of collected materials. People who need "editing" know how to classify and arrange. When editing, the editor should at least be familiar with the material and know the classification and placement of the material before editing. The higher level is to make the rules of classification and treatment by yourself. This requires you to have creative thinking, grasp the lens and skillfully use editing tools.

1 creative thinking

You need to know what you are going to present and what the video is going to express, so that you can know how to arrange your material instead of just splicing a bunch of materials. Some video clips are simply responsible for editing. The director or script provider has already conceived the story, and even every shot has an idea. You just need to edit it. This is the most labor-saving, but it is also the lowest level. Creativity in the content field is always the most valuable, and technology is a little behind. If you don't want to be a video editing tool, you have to have your own ideas to edit your own content, which is why so many photographers and editors have to switch to directors.

Creative thinking is actually very easy to use. For example, many people do evaluation and spit now, in fact, they only need a theme and a simple script, and the materials are ready-made. Of course, if they want to shine, they have to add funny, professional, face value and other ingredients.

There are also two books recommended, both of which are classic scripts. One is Basic Screenplay, which is the most suitable introduction to screenplay. It is the first book that I came into contact with film and television creation, and it is also a must-read for directors and screenwriters. With a large number of film cases, how to create a script is explained in detail, and there are exercises at the end of each chapter. Read the movies and scripts mentioned in the book directly, eliminating the search list on the internet.

One is robert mckee's The Story. Robert mckee is a famous screenwriter in Hollywood. He can be said to be the best at teaching people how to create movies and videos. His "Story" training course is to become the largest story and writing institution in the world. This "story" is his painstaking work for many years. The analysis of Godfather, Forrest Gump and Star Wars is to explain how to create a good story one by one.

Video is to tell stories with audio and video, which is more straightforward than words and more obscure than words. Many times, video is more straightforward than text, and text needs to see the text to think of the picture, which often unfolds slowly. For example, if you don't grasp the text well, it will be chaotic, but the characters can be placed in a picture in the video, and how to play it is clear at a glance.

But videos are sometimes more obscure than words. For example, a suspense story is about a child being taken away. The clue is that the schoolbag is lost somewhere. If the text is written in a schoolbag, readers who are familiar with the routine will probably guess it directly. However, taking a schoolbag in the video may be inconspicuous, and the audience will miss it if they are not careful. Therefore, how to make rational use of the picture and sound (sound does not belong to the lens, so it will not be said separately here) determines the presentation effect of the final product.

This requires you not only to have a good script, but also to know the camera, just like the hit "One Punch Superman", where figure paintings fit together, but the story and the camera are good, or people pay the bill. The lens language commonly used in film and television, such as montage, one mirror to the end, close-up, hand-held shooting, etc ... Some of these are decided during photography, and some can be completed by editing, so it is more necessary for you to have a complete idea at the stage of creativity and material acquisition. In short, when you have a good idea, how to present it depends on audio-visual language.

3. Editing software

Editing tools are difficult and easy. Mobile phone editing apps such as clip-and-play and must-cut are basically idiots, and there are almost love clips on the computer. However, this kind of editing software has few functions, and the materials are simply spliced, which is easy to reveal traces, let alone special effects.

What is more difficult is that AE, Al, PR, AU......PR is comprehensive, basically all the functions needed for video editing are available, but comprehensive often means that it is not professional enough, and various functions mean that it is not powerful enough. Therefore, with advanced editing, it is necessary to specialize in AE, secondary creation and text-to-video artifact AI, AU specialized in audio processing, PS specialized in image processing and so on.

These are practical tools to finally realize all your ideas. If you don't use these things, it's useless to think too much. Although it is said that the only person who can use tools is the tool man, many people are stuck on the road of editing, because learning is really too complicated, and they always feel that the things cut out are not what they think, and they lose their enthusiasm after doing it a few times.