National Audio: Editing Assignment

industrial video

For: Groups of 1-2
Difficulty: Beginner / Intermediate

Objective
Students will get practice in their editing software of choice and use critical thinking to make editing decisions based on a voice over.

Points to emphasize

  • Use sequences, not just shots.

  • Make use of nat. sound. Balance audio properly.

  • Every shot must have a beginning, middle, and end.

  • Avoid jump cuts and pay attention to continuity.

Equipment: Computer, editing software, headphones

Assignment

Students must use the provided voice over and raw footage to create an approximately 1 minute industrial video. Industrial videos are usually instructional in nature and are often used by businesses to explain their procedures. For an example of good industrial videos check out the T.V. series, “How it’s Made”. You may chop up the voice over to adjust pacing if needed.

 

For an added challenge, have students record their own voice over for this video with the following script:

National Audio Company has been making it’s own cassette tapes for over 50 years.

It all starts here where newly manufactured sheets of magnetic tape are split into multiple strips, each about one eighth of an inch wide.

All that tape is then loaded into high speed duplicators that copy sound files at 80 times playback speed.

Meanwhile, the customer-supplied artwork is stamped on blank cassettes.

Cassettes and tape come together here in the loaders. Empty tape cassettes are dropped in and loaded with tape at a rate of over a thousand inches per second.

The loaded cassettes are placed in shells and make their way through one final machine which wraps them in plastic and ejects them row by row, ready for shipping.

National Audio Company can make up to 100,000 hour-long tapes in an eight hour work day.

Example

We suggest waiting until after the students are finished to show the example.