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For my internship in Industry and community engagement I was given the opportunity to work as an editor at Mathew Knight productions. For this job I will be spending two days a week editing promotional videos for the company. While experimenting with editing platforms I have never used or not used very much before, such as Final Cut 7 and Adobe After effects. While I enjoyed the first week of working at the company I found it to be a huge eye opener in how the Screen arts Industry in Perth is. At university I am use to taking my time with editing and producing high quality work. This wouldn’t matter if it was a short video or a long video, I never rushed an edit. I could spend a week at times on single a project that might only be a few …show more content…

He told me he wanted them to be roughly 45 seconds to a minute long. I had to source music for a website he had a subscription to and he wanted them both done before the end of the day. This task I found extremely difficult at first as I found it really hard to choose music. Although Mathew had showed me a style of videos he liked it was still difficult finding music of that style that I thought he would like or that would fit the video. This meant I had to edit the sequence first then trial many different tracks to see what fit. While choosing music was difficult, once I had found the music the editing went smoothly from there. I experimented with a few transitions and effects such as a fast zoom, blur transition effect. While I was worried they were might have been too gimmicky Mathew seemed to like them and he was impressed with how I had done it. However though the edits were not perfect. It was my first attempt and while they were a good first attempt they largely didn’t match the quality of videos Mathew puts out. So Mathew went over it with me, suggesting areas of improvement such as cutting faster and cutting with more shots in time with the beats. I took up his advice made these improvements and ended up finishing them both by the end of the day. I was pretty happy with both. However again he really only liked one of them and he wanted more improvements to be

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