Edit your videos to make them polished, viewable, and engaging
Upload your videos and add them to your submission
These are the activities for this lesson:
POST-PRODUCTION
The last step to finish your videos is called post-production.
This includes:
- adding effects, titles, and sound to make it more engaging
- removing parts that aren’t needed
- adding in screenshots
- adding English subtitles (required if you don’t speak English in your video)
- adding narration and possibly other special effects into the videos.
Remember, you have 3 minutes for your pitch video and 3 minutes for your technical video.
Keep the judging rubric in mind so that you can include the most important parts of your story.
You can use many techniques to edit your videos, and it can become involved.
Below are the steps you should take to edit each video.
Select footage
You should have a lot of live and screen recordings to choose from. Watch all of your footage and decide what is important to include in your videos to help tell your story.
Edit content
Cut your existing footage. Decide where to add your screenshots or screen recordings and any other images or sounds you want to include.
Add effects
There are many ways to enhance your videos with added effects:
- Titles or graphics emphasize the information you want people to remember
- Stock photos are images you aren’t able to capture yourself. Find free stock photos here
- Numbers, charts, or statistics on the screen draw people’s attention to the information
- Background music make the video more interesting and fun to watch. Youtube provides an audio library for royalty-free music.
Add subtitles
You will need to add subtitles if your video is not in English. They help:
- assure that judges understand every part of your message
- even if your video is in English
You can add subtitles in your video editor or you can do it once you upload your video to YouTube or Vimeo.
This video explains how to add subtitles on YouTube.
INSPIRATION
Below is a pitch video from a past Technovation Girls team. As you watch it, think about what you like about the editing and what you want to incorporate into your pitch video.
As you watch the video, consider these questions:
- What makes their view stand out?
- What effects did they use to communicate information?
- Would you have added anything to better understand their project?
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Note: Previous years of Technovation Girls may have different rules, that’s why you’ll see different video lengths.
ACTIVITY 1: EDIT PITCH VIDEO
Using your script/storyboard to guide your edits
- Gather and organize additional images, graphs, music to add to video.
- Prioritize the most important edits you need to make to your video to submit them.
- Choose a video editing software.
- Edit your pitch video.
- Get feedback from your team members and mentor.
- Check that the video is 3 minutes or less.
- Incorporate feedback and refine until you are satisfied with the end result.
ACTIVITY 2: EDIT TECHNICAL VIDEO
Using your script/storyboard to guide your edits
- Gather and organize additional images, graphs, music to add to video.
- Prioritize the most important edits you need to make to your video to submit them.
- Edit your pitch video.
- Get feedback from your team members and mentor.
- Check that the video is 3 minutes or less.
- Incorporate feedback and refine until you are satisfied with the end result.
ACTIVITY 3: UPLOAD VIDEOS
Upload completed videos for submission
- Choose Youtube or Vimeo to upload.
- Follow instructions below to upload your pitch and technical videos..
- Set your video as unlisted or public so judges can judge it!
- Upload the video links to the Technovation submission platform.
REFLECTION
Congratulations, you’ve polished your videos, uploaded and submitted them!
You should be proud of what you have created. Now you can really celebrate with your team! Take some time to reflect:
REVIEW OF KEY TERMS
- Post-production – editing your recorded video and adding effects, titles, and sound
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Here are some helpful resources for video editing:
