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PROFESSOR: All right, end of
day 11, rough cut screening.

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The most important
thing about this class,

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and I know I've said before,
but I'm going to repeat it,

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is not so much what you
achieve in your final product

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as it is the ability to
be able to look at it

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and identify its strengths
and its shortcomings,

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and to have the
self awareness to be

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able to look upon your work,
and really be able to say,

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this is where I could
have been better

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and this is what I did well.

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And I think that I
see those elements

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of being able to
critique and edit

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and knowing what makes a
quote-on-quote good video when

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I look at your Google Docs
and the feedback that you

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give to your peers.

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All of that looked
excellent, and a lot of you

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said the same things I
was going to say myself.

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So that is always
really awesome.

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See, the scripts are excellent.

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Pre-production is
something that I

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think is super overlooked
by lot of people

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to try to make technical videos.

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They don't really see how
much work goes into the video

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before the actual
cameras come out.

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And so to the
pre-production process,

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I know, was very
intensive, but I

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think it really paid off,
because these scripts are

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really, really good.

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I know that after you
put together a rough cut,

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the last thing you want
to do is re-shoot things

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and redo things or
add more things,

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and it can seem discouraging.

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And I myself felt really guilty
while I was giving feedback

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on some of your videos, because
the last thing I want to do,

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after this super intense
two, three week experience,

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is to ask you guys, hey,
shoot a little bit more

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or try redoing things.

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And at the end of the
day, it's your call

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what you want to do, as long
as you are able to justify

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those decisions.

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I understand that
people are working

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under limited time and limited
resources, but at same time,

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I don't want you to be
discouraged just because you

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have to redo things, because as
I said, cutting more than once,

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literally, is unavoidable.

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It really is an essential
part of the creative process

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and discovering what path
you want your video to take,

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and it really is what is
crucial to move people forward.

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So, second cuts are just--
they're part of the process

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to everyone, to professionals.

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So I wouldn't be so scared
or apprehensive to do them.

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Don't be discouraged
if you have to do them.

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We're around for the rest of the
week if you have any questions.

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Until then, I'm super excited
to see where these go.