As a girl who grew up in the age where saying “I want to be a YouTuber when I grow up!” was common, I know my way around picture editing. In the last decade, my friends and I have created numerous YouTube channels and I have had to learn video editing and picture editing to keep up with our ambitions. I created thumbnails, edited hundreds of videos, and to this day, my friends and I still post on our just-for-fun channel, ELK.
While I don’t really consider YouTube a hobby or anything, I do consider video editing a huge hobby of mine–in particular, montaging. I love making montages of my time travelling, or sometimes just summer in general. I think that montages are the best way to sum up a trip, and are so rewarding to watch back. I have all my montages in https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNR6WuzDon7GfS2Tfx80Otm5tuPLFqQXX and I think it’s amazing how much my video editing skills have improved from 2019 to now.
I guess my point of this entry is that basic skills in video/photo editing can transcend to new hobbies that teachers don’t even consider. I had to teach myself video editing off of a very slow version of iMovie on an iPhone 4, but I persevered. I think that this is a valuable asset to teach in schools, especially in the digital age. Teaching a kid video editing can turn them into a future movie director… or just a girl who makes montages. Either way, it is an important skill to teach and I’m happy to be entering a profession where I can make this possible.