Take Your Kid To Work Day 2019  

Alternate Assignment  

After doing hours of research I came across a site that took me through the steps of finding a possible career. It went through various steps such as, going through my passions, strengths and favorite classes. Once I was finished, I realized I was into video editing which I have been doing for a while and when I googled it, I realized you can make a living from video editing. This is good as I care more about what do, rather than caring about how much some job pays. For this job I will at least need to go to university to get my bachelor’s degree, although they say they networks and television shows care more about experience over degree, I’ll still go to university. This is because over time you learn new skills and tricks that you would have never learn otherwise. If you didn’t know already a video editor is someone who takes a video and manipulates and rearranges it. I have already done this myself on YouTube. As of right now I use a program called Adobe After Effects 2019, this program is well known in the community as one of the best editing software out there, another competitor is Sony Vegas Pro 17, Vegas is easier to learn on and isn’t as complex but in the long run you don’t have as many features as you do on After Effects. 

(picture of what a project on after effects looks like) 

Since I have chosen video editing as my career, I need to find ways to connect and interact with others, and in the end to find out more about my chosen career. One way I can do this is by going to workshops. Workshops will show you the basics all the way through to the hardest of the hardest. One of the greatest aspects of workshops is most of them are online meaning I could just type in “video editing workshops” and a ton of helpful results will come up. Another way is our best friend YouTube, YouTube gives you tutorials for anything, at anytime, anywhere, for free. These have already helped me when learning hard concepts of my own editing. Another way to get help on your chosen career is to find experts in your area. You could do this by going on Upwork. Upwork is a website for hiring people this is good as you can find their social medias and then send a message about some tips and tricks on whatever it is you need help with. 

This is the type of video editing I’m into. With that being said, most likely I won’t get paid to do something like this. Although learning to edit like this will give me the skills in the future to maybe give me and edge over other editors or even get a better pay. Although this edit is short it takes many hours of work to line up the clips with music, get cinematics etc.