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1. The questions we'll be answering...: Welcome to my newest and
biggest Skillshare series where we are breaking down the most popular niches of video editing
to see how we can master each one to get the video editing
career of our dreams. Today's niches, we will
be talking about YouTube and podcasts as well
as social media. Now, the questions
will be answering. How can you use your niche
to tailor your demo reel? Your niche to
tailor your resume. How can you use your
niche to tailor your cover letter and where
to find jobs in your niche? So if you are a
budding video editor, interested in dipping your toe into one or more
of these niches, this Skillshare series is the perfect launching
pad for you. Let's dive.
2. Best Practices | Demo Reel: Before we dive into the
specifics of each niche, let's first cover some
general best practices. Firstly, let's talk
about your demo reel. You absolutely want to
make sure you keep it short around 30 to 90 seconds. Hiring managers
and clients don't have time to watch a long reel. Nor do they really have the
attention span anymore. So definitely stick
to 30 to 90 seconds, showcasing only your
very best work. Speaking of that, you want to start with your strongest clip. Assume that the client is
only going to watch maybe 30 seconds of the reel to get an idea of your skill
set and experience. So those first 5 seconds
really matter the most. You want to hook your audience immediately and use
your most impressive, most visually engaging,
most high profile edit. First in that beginning section. You also want to tailor
your reel to your niche. We obviously are going
to be talking about this later in the
class, but in general, you do want to make sure that
the projects and footage in your demo reel are relative to the job that
you're applying to. And if that means having
multiple demo reels, depending on the niche
that you are trying to get into, then
that's what it means. Now, if you've never edited for a specific niche before and you're trying to
get into that world, I would look at
your array of work use what most closely
resembles that niche or modify what you have already to relate it
better to that niche. Use high quality footage. If you're holding on to a piece of footage
or a project because it has personal
sentiment to you or you think it applies
directly to this niche, but it looks like crap. Maybe it's blurry or you only have a very poor
export of the project. I don't think it's worth
including in your real you're not going to be
there to explain yourself why you chose this footage when the client
watches your real. If that means that
you will have less or no projects to work with, you can consider working with high quality stock footage and editing something
together with that. Add your contact
info and branding. You want to include
a title card at or towards the beginning with
your name, your role. Maybe that's video editor or motion designer or post
production specialist. You want to include
a small bit of information of how you
can best be contacted. Maybe that's following
you on Instagram. Maybe that's contacting you via maybe that's just
showing your website, which would have all of that further contact
information on there. And one other tip here, if you have a personal logo
or some kind of watermark, I would not be afraid
to include that on your demo reel just as a form of protection and also just to further your own branding
across all of your work. And you want to keep it fresh. Try to update your
real every six to 12 months depending
on how much work you have going on at
the time and remove any outdated or
weaker looking clips, just to keep it high
quality and relevant.
3. Best Practices | Resume: We of course can't be applying
to a job without a resume. So here are some general
resume best practices. Keep it clean, concise,
and to one page. Unless you have
extensive experience, I would absolutely suggest
keeping your resume condensed to one page.
It's a cleaner look. It's easier for the
client to read, and it helps you keep
information condensed on there because if your
resume is too wordy, depending on the client, it can easily end up looking messy, which is just a no
go for resumes, and you might get passed up on. Use a very clean,
easy to read layout. No fancy fonts, no
excessive colors here. You want to stick to a
relatively simple structure. Your header at the top will feature your name and
your contact info. You can add an objective or summary on there
if you'd like. I don't personally ever use one. But depending on the job, maybe if it's a more
salaried position or a more corporate position, maybe you would use a
summary or objective. Otherwise, I think you could
leave it off in this case. I would include a
section of your skills. I would include a section of the equipment that
you know how to use, but the most important thing to feature is your experience. I would add your education and certifications at the
bottom of the resume, and I would make sure to include a clickable portfolio
link at the top of your resume near your
contact information so that they can look at your resume and your demo reel
at the same time. Showcase your key skills. Again, we want to create a
dedicated skills section to be able to highlight both our soft skills and our hard skills that are relevant to the position
that we're applying for. And the keyword
here is relevant. Keep the list short and keep it tailored to that job that
you are applying for. And also be honest here. Don't just start listing all the skills
needed if you don't actually have those skills that will eventually come back
to buy you in the bud. List experience with
a focus on impact. When you're talking about
your work experience section, for each of the
roles that you list, you want to include
the job title, the company or client or kind of work that it was for,
the dates that you work. Then key responsibilities
and achievements. This is where you're
focusing on impact. List specifics if you can, edited over 100
short form videos and add a result if you can, if you know that information, like edited over
100 shortfm videos, increasing engagement by 40%. Optimized for ATS. ATS stands for applicant
tracking system. And it's used in the
recruiting and hiring space. If you are applying to a job online and you are submitting
your resume online. So companies use specific
softwares to filter resumes. So the software will
essentially auto read the resume and pull out specific terms
that it's looking for. And if it finds those terms, then it will submit that resume
directly to the client or company to if your resume
is not optimized for ATS, then it will not
be able to read it and thus your resume will
not get pushed forward. As much as we want to make creative looking resumes
that will allow us to express ourselves even in this boring format
such as a resume, you want to make sure that
you are using a clear font and avoiding excessive layouts that would make reading
the resume hard to do. You also want to make sure you
use common industry terms. If you are a video editor, you want to make sure
you write video editing and video editor in there
as much as you can. Or other terms like
color grading and motion graphic or specific
software that you are using, writing out Adobe
Premiere Pro or Adobe After Effects
or DaVinci Resolve. Then however you
make your resume, you want to make sure that
you export it in a PDF, not only so that it
can be read on ATS, but because it is the
standard for sending resumes. If you send it via a Google Doc, it just looks really bad. It can obviously be
edited by anyone, and it doesn't leave a
good first impression for the person that is reading that resume that you are an actual professional
in the industry. Professional contact
information. Your high school email, cool guy 123@yahoo.com is not going to fly for your professional
video editing career. You want to make sure you
use a professional email. That can just be your
full name@gmail.com. I think that GML is the preferred email
that you should use, but whatever platform you use would definitely make sure to
keep it very professional, leaving out numbers or
funny characteristics. You also want to make sure to
include your phone number. If you're comfortable
doing that. Again, a clickable
portfolio link. Maybe also the link to
your LinkedIn profile. Applying to a job locally, make sure to add your
general location. Could be your city, just to let them know
that you are local, that you do live here
in case they need that.
4. Best Practices | Cover Letter: A well written cover letter plus your portfolio absolutely will equal more job offers for you. So let's get into some cover
letter, best practices. Keep it concise and
use a pro format. You definitely want
to limit it to one page around two
to three paragraphs. Definitely use a clean, professional font like
Times in Roman or Aerial. If possible, you
should address it to the specific person that
you are going to be talking to and then
follow this structure. So the opening paragraph, you would be
introducing yourself and expressing enthusiasm. For the body of
the cover letter, you can highlight relevant
experience as well as your skills and why they
matter for this specific job. And then in your
closing paragraph, you can reinforce your interest and include a call to action. Start with a strong hook. You want to grab the Raiders
attention immediately with a compelling opening instead of just a generic introduction. Maybe you could be
telling a funny story of how you came across this
job and how funny it is because you were just
telling your partner that if you could find a job in
this specific niche, you could just die happy or that your sister
always told you growing that you were always meant
to be in the food industry. And you never thought
that that meant editing for a food
channel, but here we are. It needs to be relevant
to the job and hopefully complimentary to the person that
would be reading it. So speaking of that, you
want to make sure you tailor your cover letter to the
job and to the company. Hiring managers can spot
a generic cover letter instantly. In fact, most people can spot a generic
cover letter instantly. Now, of course, we're
going to be diving into tailoring this to each
niche later in the class. But I feel like the cover
letter often gets thrown to the side as just something that you can write once
and then forget it, and then just send to every
client that you have. And that's not true.
The cover letter is something that
it is worth putting effort into because it is the one chance you get
to be talking directly to the client. So you
want to make sure that it feels like it was written
just for that client. Show passion and personality. Again, companies want
somebody who is enthusiastic about the job that they are hoping somebody
will apply to. So show your creativity
here, your adaptability, and your true enthusiasm for the job that hopefully
you do have for this job. You want to maintain
professionalism? But you also really want to be able to express
yourself to the client. And with a strong closing
and call to action. Reiterate why you are
excited about the role. You can politely
express interest in an interview or inquire
about next steps, and then you want to thank
them for their time.
5. The YouTube & Podcast Niche: YouTube and podcast
niche. About the Niche. YouTube is the world's second
largest search engine, and video content on YouTube
is constantly evolving. Now, I'm pairing YouTube and podcast together because even though one is technically
without video and one is, they are in a very
similar space. I mean, most people anymore are recording
their podcasts with video so that they can be repurposed on both
Spotify and on YouTube. They have very
similar attributes, including the multitude
of sub niches, the type of style of editing, and where you'll
find the clients. So I'm pairing them together. Now, as a video
editor in this niche, you'll be working
with creators and brands and influencers
to produce content that resonates with
their audiences and stands out in such a highly
competitive environment. Now, a big feature
of YouTube and podcast is that it is very vast. It includes a wide
variety of sub niches. This list is not exclusive. The sub niches are
truly endless, but a few of the
most popular ones includes general
content creator, which has some sub sub niches within it, including
Talking Head. Blog, commentary, reaction,
product reviews, challenges, Q&As, lifestyle, classic
YouTube or content. Some other sub niches
include gaming, educational and
tutorial, travel, fitness, and food and cooking. Now, the sub niche often
determines the editing style, how that creator interacts
with their audiences, further products that they may sell on top of their
YouTube channel. Whether or not they have
just YouTube channel or a YouTube channel and a
podcast or just a podcast. So depending on the
sub niche that you are really interested
within YouTube, it may determine a different
level of workload, as well as other possible
editing adjacent tasks that may be asked of you if you are interested in being a video
editor in this space.
6. Your Demo Reel: YouTube Style!: Now let's get into the
YouTube career blueprint, where we are going to
be answering all of those important questions to get ourselves a job in the
YouTube and podcast space. So how can you tailor your video editing demo
reel to the YouTube niche? Well, if you want to be a YouTube and podcast
video editor, you're going to
need to edit like. You're going to
want to be showing relevant skills in
your demo reel. Maybe something as
simple as this, a talking head with
jump cuts included, as well as motion graphics, animated text,
caption work, memes, sound effects, additional
role, pop culture references. These are all things
that might be helpful to include
in your demo reel, as they may appeal. To certain YouTube sub niches. You can also showcase
your thumbnail work. If you have experience in that, creating thumbnails, you can display those in your demo reel. And you can also
show if you have it a wide variety of
storytelling techniques. Have you edited in
a documentary style before O of log style before? Or have you edited for
educational content? Again, depending on the
subniche you're interested in, it will be smart to include
those specific things to show the client that you
have edited this before and that you can
do it again for them. High retention edits
and viral content. Have you edited a reel
before that went viral? If so, it would be kind of
cool to show that reel, maybe in its entirety, maybe just a few seconds of it, and show next to it
the engagement that it received on whatever
platform it went viral on. Trendy and genre specific edits. Again, we're trying to reflect the type of YouTube videos
we want to be editing. So if you want to be editing
in the gaming space, then start editing
gaming videos, even if that's just
screen recordings of your own self playing
your own game. How would you edit those videos? If you want to be a
tutorial video editor, create a tutorial of sorts. How would you go
about editing that? If you want to edit
for someone like Mr. Bees, then start finding
content that looks like Mr. Bees and edit it or
put yourself on screen and create your own videos and start editing them
in that style.
7. Your Resume: YouTube Style!: How can you tailor your video editing resume to
your YouTube niche? Well, let's start with
the skills section. We want to highlight relative YouTube skills that we have. First of all, of course, list the editing software
that you are comfortable on. Do you happen to have any
motion graphic experience? Have you worked in
after effects before? I would make sure to list
that if you have it. Do you have YouTube
SEO experience? Like, have you put videos up on YouTube and
manage the back end what kind of keywords to use? What kind of titles to include? If so, I would make
sure to add that. Do you have particular
storytelling skills? If people have told you before that you're a good storyteller, I would make sure to include
that in your skills list. Do you have audio
editing skills? Do you feel comfortable
cleaning up audio? That's going to be
a big selling point for YouTube and podcast niches. And if you have
thumbnail design, that's going to be
important to include, too, because it's video editing related,
just like the SEO, it's an extra skill
set that you can be charging for if they happen
to need that service. So now we want to make sure that we're highlighting
relevant experience. We want to highlight
projects where you edited YouTube content and the impact of your work on
views or engagement. And if you've never edited for any YouTube channel before, then considering the list
of YouTube specific skills, what is some kind of
work that compares? Do you have any intern work or assistant work where you helped to grow a company or a brand using video. Do you have
your own YouTube channel? Then that obviously counts
as work experience, and you should be listing now everything that you
do for that channel. And so, specifically, here
is an example of how you want to lay out your work
experience for each shop. You want to make sure
to put the title where that job comes from, whether it's just
general freelance or for a specific company, when you worked there, when you started, when you
ended, if you ended at all. And then, again, just like
in the best practices video, we want to make sure
we're adding relevant, specific information
when we can. How many videos?
How did the views change from when we started
there to when we ended there? Is there a percentage
we can come up with? And then we want to
make sure to detail our sub niche experience. Because if you are interested
in a specific sub niche, you want to make sure
to highlight that. You want to make sure
that that work is listed first on your resume. Versus in a different resume, you would have a different piece of work first depending on, again, what sub niche or
niche you are interested in. So, for example, if you have gaming experience and
you want to get further into the gaming industry and you want to get further
into the gaming sub niche, you might list your specific experience and say
something like edited fast paced
gameplay videos with high energy music and visual effects to
maintain viewer interest. Or if you're trying to get into the H two game,
the tutorial game, maybe you would list your
experience and underneath, say something like created clean and structured video
tutorials with text overlays and
screen recordings to guide viewers through
step by step processes. YouTube trends. We want to let people know as
much as we can that we are relative that we're up
to date on current trends, whether that be on social media, or on YouTube. So if there
are viral challenges that were on YouTube that you
edited or participated in, you want to make sure
to list those just as a reminder to people
that you are up to date on trends and that you
like to stay up to date on the trends and also on popular
video editing techniques.
8. Your Cover Letter: YouTube Style!: So how can we tailor our video editing cover
letter to the YouTube niche? Well, of course, we want to
start with a strong opening. We want to center that opening around our passion for YouTube, our interest in YouTube, why we are perfect for this
YouTube video editing role. Make it personal to you. Tell a personal tidbit
about yourself. Don't have anything
like that to share, maybe share a stat
about YouTube videos. But overall, you want to come across genuine and like you are, again, a real person, and that ChachiBT did not
write this cover letter. You want to highlight
YouTube specific experience. So we're not just copying
and pasting from our resume. Here, you want to allow
for a little bit of a vague elaboration of
your YouTube experience. You can highlight
specific techniques that you have used on certain
videos in the past, and you can even further
explain here for example, if you don't have any
direct YouTube experience, you can explain why
the experience you do have still is applicable
for this YouTube role. Again, similar to the resume, we want to highlight
YouTube trends. If you are familiar and
comfortable with YouTube trends, you want to make sure
to highlight that. You want people to
know that you are in the space and that you are very in the know about what is trending on
YouTube at all times. One soft skill of
the YouTube niche is the fact that it is
very often a team sport, and collaboration
is used very often, whether it's just you, the YouTube video editor working with the
YouTube creator, or maybe you are
just one piece of a larger team of content creators and influencers
and creative directors. So you want to make sure
to highlight heavily your interest and skill
at collaboration.
9. Where to Find YouTube Video Editing Jobs?: Now, where to find jobs in the YouTube
and podcasting space? Freelance platforms
are going to be a really safe bet for finding
YouTube and podcast gigs. Platforms like Upwork, fiber, freelancer,
and PeoplePerHour. Absolutely. If you search YouTube video editor or podcast editor on any
of those platforms, you're going to get results. You can also look on social media and
networking platforms, such as LinkedIn, Facebook
Groups, and Redent. Because YouTube and podcasting is so heavily in
the social space, people are going to
be posting about open positions socially as well. So keep an eye on LinkedIn. Join different Facebook
groups that appeal to either your niche or just as being a YouTube video editor, and maybe once a week, search on Redit or other platforms to find new job listings and
apply to them quickly. There's also influencer
marketing platforms. These platforms help connect influencers with
creative professionals, and that does include
video editors. And also check out the
direct channel pages of Set Influencer. Keep an eye on your
favorite creators and see if they are looking
for a video editor. They may post about it. They may post about it on their community tabs
or on Instagram, or they may just reference it in their latest YouTube videos that they are open and looking
for a video editor. And lastly, I would check
out social media agencies. Many agencies specialize in managing social media
content for clients, and they might need
video editors. Bookmark all of those and check them out
weekly or biweekly, just to keep your
fingers on the pulses of all these other different
job opportunities.
10. The Social Media Niche: You are interested in
the social media niche, then that makes two of us. Social media is my niche. So let's dive into a little
bit about the niche. The social media
video editing niche focuses on creating engaging, fast paced and
visually captivating videos designed specifically
for platforms like YouTube, TikTok, Facebook,
LinkedIn and Twitter. Unlike traditional video
editing for film and TV, social media videos
require short formats. Short format video is another way to
describe social media. It is all content
that is short form. Essentially, it's
usually under 1 minute, and it involves including high engagement strategies and also platform specific
optimizations. So some key aspects to social media video
editing or, again, platform specific editing styles depending on any of these
platforms of your choice. The videos are fast paced
and attention grabbing. The first 3 seconds are always so crucial to
any short form video. Dits need to hook
viewers immediately. They might include
bold text here, jump cuts, and captivating
visuals in order to do that. They might also include
memes and gifts and humor to add some
relatability to the videos. Trending content and virality. Even more than YouTube, staying up to date with
trends is going to be very crucial for a career
in the social media space. The trends can range across
different platforms. Whether they just
be sound trends or specific challenges or
just general trends. How are people preferring to watch video on
whatever platform? What kind of video are people
leaning into watching? What kind of content are
people tending to scroll past? All that information
is super crucial, as well as integrating
popular audio, visual effects, and motion graphics to
increase shaability. That's always the goal. You are looking for engagement, you're looking for shaability. You're looking for people to
want to follow your content. That's usually the goal with short form video
in social media.
11. Your Demo Reel: Socialed!: So the social media
career blueprint would look something like this. How can you tailor your
video editing demo reel to the social media niche? You want to make sure that
the client knows that you know what trends are trending
and which ones are not. They want to know that you
are relevant in the industry. So you're staying up
to date with trends, and maybe you have edited trends and viral content before. Have edited, particularly
viral content before, I would make sure to note
that in your demo reel. You can have the video that
went viral on one side and have the amount of views that
it got on the other side. Now, there are still
some timeless things that always will look trendy, no matter how long
they're on your reel for certain classic
meme style edits, certain techniques like speed
ramping, music matching, cutting to the
rhythm of the music, zooming in and zooming
out, animating your text. All of those are classic
styles that you can showcase in your demo reel that are not going to need
constantly update. So in your demo reel, you want to make sure that
you are highlighting your priority for sound effects and other engagement tactics. I think that often can get thrown to the side a little bit, but sound is the
way that we engage, sometimes even more
so than in visuals. So if you have that experience and
interest in doing that, I would definitely
showcase that in your demo reel.
Fast paced story. I think that this
is a special skill of social media video
editors to be able to tell a story as quickly as possible while keeping
the viewer engaged. The goal of any social
media video is to hook viewers within
the first 3 seconds. So if you had a video that
did that in the past, or if you want to edit
future videos in that style, I would make sure to feature those things in your demo reel. If you are in the social media space and you're
creating videos, you should be making
sure that they can be watched with or without sound because a
lot of people are not watching videos
with sound anymore. So making sure you have
engaging on screen text, making sure you have captions going on every video that you keep it updated and relevant. Again, we are
keeping these reels updated so that anytime we
want to apply for a job, we know that we can
pull that demo reel and send it to the client
and know that it's going to show that we are up
to date on trends and we are in the know of what
is going on on social media so that we
can best help the client.
12. Your Resume: Socialed!: So how can you tailor your video editing resume
to the social media niche? Let's start with
the skills section. We want to make sure
we are specifically highlighting social
media relevant skills. So what would that
entail exactly? Assuming that you
have these, you, of course, want to list the video editing software
that you're working with. If you have any motion graphic or after effects experience, if you have any
platform specific knowledge or
optimization skills. If you are well versed in engagement strategies or fast
paced editing techniques. If you are experienced
in audio cleanup, if you are experienced
in audio design, if you are experienced in
captioning and text overlays, and then you also want to
list if you happen to have non editing skills like social media analytic
experience or trend knowledge or skills
related to searching for specific trends or skills related to social
media engagement, or skills related
to general SEO. These are all helpful things that people will
want to know when looking at your
video editing resume if you are looking for
a social media job. Now, let's talk about your
work experience section. Similar to YouTube,
you want to focus on results driven statistics, if you can, and you also want to name specific platforms
if you used them. So, for example, in a
past work experience, you could list that you
specifically edited for TikTok or Instagram or both. You could even hear
list specific links here, if there was a
particularly viral video and you edited it, you had a hand in
making it viral. So linking that video
in your resume, I don't think that hurts at all. I think it's helpful for
them to see the proof directly rather than you just
listing it on your resume. Some other results
driven info you could add would be
improving engagement, improving audience retention,
improving viewership. And, of course, try to make
this as accurate as possible. Of course, you may not remember
exactly when and where the social media page was before you started
on versus now. So you're going to have to do
a little bit of estimating but I think that's fair
enough if you're able to say, if I started in
December of 2021, and now it is 2025, and so it's been four years
and you can look back on relatively what the numbers were looking like back then
and then compared to now, you can get a good estimate of that percentage
of growth, for sure. You can also add specific
things that you did, specific editing
techniques that you did. But again, try and keep it condensed and try
and keep it very relevant to that specific job or to the job that you
are trying to apply to. And then you also want
to list your portfolio and your social media profiles. Unfortunately, because you are
in the social media space, the client may want to see the proof in the
pudding directly to you. They want to see your face. They want to see content that
you have edited yourself. They want to see your
personal content. Now, you may have your own
business Instagram page or your own YouTube channel
or a separate Tik Tok, then your personal
TikTok. And that's great. I would show those if
you can, assuming that they have a good amount
of content on them. But you're going to want to show those as well as the rest of your portfolio in clickable
links throughout your resume.
13. Your Cover Letter: Socialed!: Now, how can you tailor your cover letter to
the social media niche? You want to start with a
hook that somehow shows that you are in the know of social
media and what's needed, what's trending, and that you are truly passionate
about social media. Your entire opening
paragraph should definitely be entertaining and
engaging to the reader. But that first sentence is
going to be very pivotal here. So in this example,
you're naming a statistic and how
it relates to you. You can also add in something
funny or maybe referencing a really popular trend or if you can't think of
anything, just showing your appreciation and enthusiasm
for social media and sharing with them
how excited you are to have this
opportunity for this job. You want to talk about
your experience, and of course, it's going to
be in your resume already. But maybe to elaborate
on that experience, you can reference things like your mindset when it
comes to social media, how you tend to approach every social media project
that you come across, how you like to work with clients when it comes
to social media, to make sure that you are both giving and getting the
best out of each other. And again, you can note
specific examples of your work including your viral successes, if you have any and how you not only got the video to
be a viral success, but how you interpret
that viral success in terms of the analytics and what that means
for future videos. Connect your skills to
the company's goals. You know, it's all
fun to talk about social media and the
things that you have done. But a core part of
any cover letter is going to be to relate
everything you do back specifically to the company so they can visualize how
you would be on their team. So if you're
applying to a brand, you want to show
how your editing would align with their aesthetic and their
engagement goals, and you want to also mention
how you can repurpose content across multiple
platforms for more reach. If you're applying
to an influencer, maybe show that you understand their audience and can
match their content style. And you also want to highlight your experience editing
for similar niches.
14. Where to Find Social Media Jobs?: Where do you find jobs in
the social media niche? If you are looking
for flexibility and control over your projects
and who you're working for, freelance platforms
are going to be a great place to
start and in general, working as a freelance
social media video editor. There is a wide variety
of freelance platforms, but a few that you can get
started with are upwork, fiber, people per hour. And freelancer.com. Now, a very different
kind of a space is social media and
influencer marketplaces. These platforms are going to
connect you with influencers and brands and agencies looking for video
content creation. Then there is social
media job listings and networking groups. Now, many companies
and influencers post video editing jobs directly on social media or within
networking groups. Because social media is
in the social space, in the online space,
it comes naturally just to post casual job
listings all over the place. And, yes, that
includes social media. So I would definitely
suggest looking up a few Facebook groups related to your niche or where you live or just general video
editor support groups. And check Facebook maybe
three times a week. And if a post happens
to roll through that appeals to you and
hasn't been up too long, I think it would be
a really good call to apply through Facebook.
15. Now What?: Want to leave you with this.
I want you to remember that specializing in a niche can really set you apart in
the video editing world. So look into the
different niches in this series and see which
ones appeal to you the most, but also don't be
afraid to experiment. Don't be afraid to learn a
new skill that might give you an edge getting into a different niche that you
maybe didn't think of. And it's always so
important to adapt as a video editor because of
the wide range of niches. If one niche starts to fall in popularity or
inaccessibility, there's always going to be
another niche that is rising up because video is forever
as far as right now. Just a matter of which niche
is the right one for you. So whether you're
pursuing wedding films or social media content or
cinematic storytelling, your unique style and dedication is probably going to be
your greatest assets here. And this is just the
beginning of your journey. So keep crafting, keep refining. And most importantly, keep pushing your limits
as a video editor. Now, go out there and land the video editing career of your dreams. See you
in the next class.
Colleen Cavolo, Video Editing Mentor
