I want to start this reflection by stating the course this month was a complete sham. Any learning that was done was by me and just to try and get assignments done without any assistance or guidance. Often the assignments did not have any thought behind them, just generic editing. The point is this month’s class was a complete wash and I am very disappointed in how it was handled. I understand the difficult circumstances faced by the instructor personally, and the unprecedented circumstances the rest of us are in made it difficult but that is no excuse for the way things were done this month.
That being said this month was a good refresh for me personally. I have previously had editing schooling and experience from Full Sail when I completed the undergrad degree. So, during this month I refreshed skills like sound editing and timing. It had been quite a while for me, so I relished the opportunity to finesse a sound design by overlapping tracks. It was like riding a bike. I also took the opportunity to refresh my skills on basic structure and piecing together an edit from start to finish. The assignments we had this month were good practice but not very good learning experiences.
Overall, I believe this month’s class was poorly managed and executed and offered nothing in the way of actual new learning experiences. For anyone new to editing this was a wasted month and did them no favors. For those of us with experience it again was a middling excuse to dust off some old skills. Again, nothing new was learned. For the future I would suggest having someone able to give their full time to the class instruct and actually give lectures. This was a complete failure by Full Sail University and the master’s program, and I expected more.
Zach Rudden Filmmaker 