First Session! (Introductions...Why Video Edit???)

Hey guys! 

I was really fun talking with you today about FCP (shorthand for Final Cut) and the various stages of working in film. I hope you are excited to get going with storyboarding, collecting media, and editing your project in Final Cut. Also, thanks for your great feedback on the documentary I made. Here's the full-length video, if you want to see the rest:

Here's what we went over today (in case you want to review!)

• Final Cut is an industry standard for video editing in Hollywood (Think Spielburg!) Knowing how to use this software will be an enormous help professionally and academically.
• Managing Media (Assets): FCP is a non-linear editing system, that means you won't ever ever lose anything. It also backs up your work for you automatically! (whew!)  

• Setting up a project folder (super important!): Three folders--> Project folder, Video/Audio/Image folder inside.
• The importance of storyboards: Storyboards are used to organize your thoughts (much like an outline organizes a paper.) They range from simple drawings to very complicated and detailed illustrations. Storyboards can be made anywhere, but for our purposes, you can use the handouts that Ms. Erika has.  There is no one way to make a storyboard (very important!) I use many different media to storyboard...from large pieces of scrap paper to a journal that I carry around. Here's an example of a storyboard that I used for an animation that I created...(It was a 10 Things episode)