🎬 Film Editing Workshop: Edit with Purpose

📍 Zameen Art House | 🗓 Tuesdays | 🕖 7–9 PM | 📅 5 Sessions | ⏱ 2 Hours Each

Over five immersive sessions, you’ll edit real footage, study the language of cinema, and gain the tools to craft your own short film using Adobe Premiere Pro.
This hands-on course blends technical skills with cinematic analysis — teaching not just how to edit, but why editing choices matter.

✅ By the end of the course, you will:

• 🎞 Edit and export a short film
• ✍ Understand editing as storytelling
• 🔊 Use rhythm and sound to shape emotion
• 🎬 Know how to structure scenes with intention

💻 Requirements:

• Laptop
• Headphones recommended

Session 1: The Editor’s Role – Premiere & Cinema Language

Premiere Pro Skills:

• Setting up a new project
• Frame rates, resolutions, and aspect ratios
• Understanding frames in cinema (C.U., M.S., etc.)
• Linear vs. non-linear editing
• Interface tour: Timeline, Tools, Source/Program Monitor
• Organizing footage using bins

Cinema Concepts:

• What is film editing?
• The editor as storyteller and sculptor of time
• Editing as an invisible art: emotional rhythm

🎬 Session 2: Project Setup & Basic Editing

Premiere Pro Skills:

• Importing media & creating sequences
• Editing tools (snapping, selection, undo/redo)

Cinema Concepts:

• Rules of classical Hollywood editing
• The invisible cut: continuity & flow
• 180-degree rule, eyeline match, shot/reverse shot
• Scene analysis

🕰 Session 3: Rhythm of Emotion – Pacing & Timing

Premiere Pro Skills:

• Ripple, Roll, Slip & Slide tools
• Using markers & duplicates for timing
• Trimming for emotional pacing

Cinema Concepts:

• Editing as rhythm and musicality
• Montage theory and techniques
• Scene analysis

✨ Session 4: Visual Effects & Transitions

Premiere Pro Skills:

• Intro to transitions
• Working with basic effects
• Audio syncing & level adjustments
• Adding fades, ambiances, and sound design

Cinema Concepts:

• When and how to cut for emotion
• Genre-based transitions
• Scene analysis

🔊 Session 5: Soundscapes & Finalizing Your Edit

Premiere Pro Skills:

• Final sound polishing
• Export settings and best practices
• Preparing a final cut

Cinema Concepts:

• Editing for emotional & narrative clarity
• Final scene breakdown
• Class screening