Staying ahead of the curve - School Days

Post, Sept, 2003 by Matthew Armstrong

While these training centers are centered on the various technologies, they also offer aesthetic and criticism courses, seminars with guest speakers and workflow courses. Video Symphony has started a series of editing courses based on genre.

"Editor's need to know how to use the tools and the general aspects of editing, but there's a wide range of specialization that they can go from there," notes Flanagan. "Whether it's editing reality TV or sitcoms or independent films, major films, commercials, music videos, there are a lot of different options. For each of these there are certain craft aspects and certain workflow aspects. We get a lot of working editors that are commercial guys but want to learn about reality TV. Editing for those two [genres need] completely different skills with different workflows and needs."

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