ASSISTANT EDITING FOR SCRIPTED TELEVISiON

Taught by Emily Streetz, the Assistant Editing for Scripted Television class serves to give a solid base understanding of assisting for scripted television series. Beginner to intermediate assistant editors will learn the the workflows of editorial including: paperwork, dailies, temp sound and music, basic VFX editing, and more!

Below is everything you’ll need:

If you don’t own Media Composer please install a trial from the download links below so that you are able to follow along. If you have a newer version of Avid that should work fine as well.

Download Avid Media Composer

Download the media for the class

(If you have trouble opening the media on a Mac try installing The Unarchiver)

This class covers the following, and much more:

PRE PRODUCTION

  • Setting up editorial

    • Hardware requirements

    • Dailies requirements

    • Software Needs

  • Establishing communication with other departments

  • Testing workflows

  • Establish Editor’s Preferences

 

PAPERWORK BREAKDOWN

  • Daily Edit Logs

  • Progress Report

  • Lined Script

  • Facing Pages

  • Call Sheets

  • Continuity

  • Camera Reports

  • Sound Reports

  • Transfer Reports

  • VFX Reports

 

PRODUCTION / EDITORIAL

  • Dailies

    • Checking Edit Logs

    • Double checking Metadata

    • Marking Clips

    • Grouping and bin layouts

    • Manual Scripting

    • Building Notebooks

  • Temp Sound Design

  • Temp Music Editing

  • Tracking & Recording Temp ADR

  • Tracking VFX & VFX Basics

  • Exporting Cuts

 

FINISHING

  • Online

  • Turnovers

  • Reconforms

  • Wrapping


Let us know if you have any questions by emailing us at assistbootcamp@gmail.com and please sign up for our mailing list below to stay in the loop about upcoming classes!

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The Instructor

Emily Streetz has been in post production since 2006 after she graduated from film school at San Francisco State University and one particularly ambitious year abroad at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia. She has since been a PA, a post-production coordinator, an apprentice editor, assistant editor, first assistant editor, VFX editor, music editor, sound editor, and finally, picture editor. She has worked on a wide variety of projects ranging from small independent films (I Am Michael) to large blockbuster hits (Bridesmaids) as well as television shows ranging from network (Marvel’s Agent Carter) to cable (HBO’s True Blood.) She has just finished editing and VFX editing Season 2 of Lost in Space for Netflix.