Post Production

• Anyone with a drive full of unedited footage
• School media clubs preparing competition entries
• Marketing teams sitting on event recordings
• Freelancers moving from phone edits to a proper timeline

1. 20 minOrganise the drive: bins, proxies and a naming rule that holds.
2. 35 minAssembly — find the story in the selects before touching effects.
3. 40 minCut for pace: J-cuts, breathing room and when to hold the frame.
4. 30 minSound pass: levelling, music bed and noise removal.
5. 25 minColour, titles, captions and a clean export preset.

• Each participant assembles a two-minute sequence that reads in order.
• Audio is levelled so dialogue sits above the music throughout.
• The team leaves with one export preset used by everyone.

6 to 16 participants. Computer room with editing software installed, or participants bring their own laptops. Indoor.

Practice footage, project templates, sound library and export presets. Client provides laptops with software and headphones.

Beginner to intermediate. Some editing experience helps but is not required.

Indicative. Final quotation depends on group size, location and dates.

In practice: a school's media club had 90 minutes of National Day footage and three weeks to submit. We spent the first hour throwing out two thirds of it. The cut that emerged ran four minutes and needed no re-editing after the teacher's review, which almost never happens.

• · Licensed music pack
• · Motion graphics kit
• · One-to-one edit review