Video Editing is one of the many interest classes offered at Nova Pioneer. Interest Classes are extra courses, in addition to the subject related content, offered to students at Nova Pioneer that equip our students with other lifelong skills needed in the job market. Examples of such courses include; Coding, Chess, Entrepreneurship and Journalism, just to name a few.
The beauty of the interest courses is that the students select them based on their own interests and skills that they would like to develop. This gives them an opportunity to think about their future and career options based on the skills developed.
I have exercised my video editing skill since 2018 when some of the projects I worked on involved creating videos to tell a story. I needed to work on several videos put together to form one refined video. Some examples of these projects include, a school documentary, appreciation videos, know your Novaneer videos and many more.
I developed my video editing skills over time through research and I have gradually learnt how to bring my clips to life through careful storytelling. I have learned how to use Adobe Premiere Pro Video Editing, a software that filmmakers use to edit their movies. Through my realization of Adobe Premiere Pro and what it could do, I decided to learn more about it through YouTube tutorials and I am currently able to comfortably edit videos from what I learned.
This skill has enabled me to create informative videos that include the Math Bench, ‘Know Your Novaneer’, and Appreciation videos for Nova Pioneer. I am currently teaching the Video Editing interest course to 30 students across our Nova Pioneer High School, supported by Mr. Nicolus Kimathi. Our lessons take place daily from Monday to Friday. Video Editing is a fascinating course and students are captivated by it because they are able to express themselves creatively. Our students taking the video editing classes are movie-lovers and we once in a while hear them talk about camera tricks, effects, and graphics that occur in movies and seeing them learn how to apply these effects and graphics on their own has been heart-warming to us as their teachers.
We give assignments to the students in the form of editing their own projects on a bi-weekly basis. With these assignments, we’re able to gauge their understanding and grade them accordingly. An example of an assignment would be, depending on the skills learnt in a particular week, students can get appropriate videos of their liking, edit and join them to create an amazing 3 minute final product and all the learnt skills should be visible in it. As teachers, we use a created rubric to grade their projects.
Filmmaking is a field that is taking over the world and through that, we have watched great movies that have gone ahead to top the charts because of powerful Video Editors and producers that have worked behind the scenes. I am creating awareness in this field to my students who are so passionate about video editing and would want to take this skill to another level when they step into the job market.
With a lot of passion, and with these skills, students have different career options at their disposal. Some of them would want to be Online Content Creators, Creative Designers, Film Makers and Multimedia Animators.
Our students take…
“Hello, my name is Steve Mose, a Form 4 student at Nova Pioneer Tatu Boys. I opted in on Video Editing as it captured my mind as soon as I heard about it. It looked so complicated and yet so simple and I had to know how to use Adobe Premiere Pro, the primary software in the video editing class. As I took on the class I aimed to take my editing skills to another level as I had been dabbling in the art for quite a while. As all new endeavors do, it proved quite a challenge but these challenges only serve the purpose of stimulating improvement, and true to this I soon got the hang of it. So far it has been an amazing class, full of joy and excitement, and definitely one that puts the mind to task. Be that as it may, in the spirit of always growing and higher expectations we strive to reach new heights with each lesson that passes”.
Click on the link below to watch one of our video editing sessions:
