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COURSE GOAL

    The Editing course, comprising one year of full-time study, gives basic training in professional editing techniques. Besides basic theory, the emphasis is on practical craftsmanship and compositional skills. Graduates of the course are qualified to start work as professional cutters or video editors, especially in news and magazine journalism.

    Although post-production techniques are nowadays in a state of rapid flux, the editor's practical and creative skills have hardly changed. Knowledge of the fundamentals of video and sound recording techniques and aesthetic visual judgement are just as essential as an awareness of dramaturgical structure and a feeling for rhythm and pace.

CURRICULUM

    There are three areas of study:

• Editing Techniques and Composition as the major subject encompassing
• linear and non-linear editing systems
• video mixing
• picture composition
• classical forms of montage
• practical exercises with professional equipment

• Television Engineering as first subsidiary subject covering
• digital and analogue video recording
• sound recording technologies
• camera technologies
• studio technologies

• Media Studies as second subsidiary subject imparting basic knowledge of
• programme management
• programme planning
• politics and the media
• press law
• audience research
• ethics of journalism