This course aims to develop students' knowledge and skills on video editing. Throughout the course students will learn how to build complex moving image scenes through the compositing and animation of multiple images, text, effects, and video clips. For structuring and organising of visual and audio time-based materials, students will be introduced to Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects and Premiere - key software used in the creative industries. However, as software alone doesn't make for great art, this course also provides elementary studies of structure and form in experimental moving images. 

Students will be exposed to video art practices and films that use these techniques to help them build on their own interests within the medium as a basis for the final project at the end of the course. In addition to technical skills, students will learn about concepts relating to contemporary art, collage, montage, animation, narrative, and appropriation, to conceive a greater understanding of how editing, motion and composites can be used to further narrative and concept.

This course will be conducted mostly in workshops environments to deliver skills and knowledge with actual practices: files transfer, linear editing, multiple layered image compositing, speed, colour and light manipulations, filters and effects, merging graphics into moving images, and basic sound mixing and sound filter applications for video work.

This course aims to familiarise students with principal functions and features, and point towards solution strategies when using these editing programme. Fluency in these skills will help students to work for various digital media at more advanced levels, including single channel video art, video installation art, hypermedia, and projects of experienced design.