Postgraduate Course in Video Editing
Informative session
Postgraduate Diploma in Video Editing and Audiovisual Editing
Date: Monday 12 June, 2023
Time: 10:30h
Location: Online
Language: Spanish
Find out all the details of the program from the academic management
With a completely practical approach and a clear commitment to graphic innovation, on the Postgraduate Course in Video Editing you will learn all the expressive resources used in today's audiovisual editing.
Informative session
Date: Monday 12 June, 2023
Time: 10:30h
Location: Online
Language: Spanish
Next edition
Classes start: 16 October, 2023
Classes end: 21 May, 2024 (To be confirmed)
Program ends: 28 June, 2024 (To be confirmed)
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The Postgraduate Course in Video Editing is a program in which you will learn to create pieces with which you are capable of transmitting the message you want to communicate. The main objective is that you learn to build audiovisual narratives.
Why choose this program
Study at an accredited school
Study at a school accredited by EQUIS, an international distinction that guarantees the quality of our institution and makes us the 1st school of management linked to a public university with this accreditation in our country.
Master the tools
With this postgraduate course you delve into the management of the main image and sound editing programs: Premiere, Pro Tools, After Effects, and Da Vinci.
Get to know the new audiovisual formats
The postgraduate program specializes in the new formats of the world of cinema, TV and the Internet and deals with formats such as narrative films, essay films or documentaries, and music clips through the editing of other people's images (found-footage) or our own.
Learn from an expert teacher
You will be trained by prestigious editors and filmmakers such as Ana Pfaff, Diana Toucedo, Ariadna Ribas, Carla Simón, Fernando Franco or Carlos Marqués-Marcet, and you will be able to edit raw material from their projects.
Who is it for?
The Postgraduate Course in Video Editing is aimed at graduates who wish to acquire specialized knowledge in editing, especially those from degrees such as Audiovisual Communication, Journalism, Advertising, Fine Arts, and Design.
Curriculum
The course is structured in different blocks for the different elements of video editing: creation and composition, how to work with narrative (fiction), use of After Effects, associative editing, collage, sound and colour. During the postgraduate year, each student has a computer at their disposal in the classroom and the classes have a theoretical-practical nature, with continuous and tutored weekly practices that allow them to deepen the technical, conceptual, and creative aspects of editing.
Narrative editing
Technical programs
Associative editing
Creating your own film
Complementary activities
The Postgraduate Course in Video Editing also includes the possibility of participating in practical activities and activities for personal and professional growth such as:
- UPF-BSM Inside: is a group of interdisciplinary subjects (applied data, communication, creativity, innovation and project management, sustainability and leadership among others) that, if you take this program, you can access at no additional cost. They are 100% online and you can take them throughout the academic year at your own pace, as they have been designed as self-study subjects.
Qualification obtained
Once you have passed the program, you will be awarded an electronic degree (e-Título) for the Diploma de Postgrado en Edición de Video y Montaje Audiovisual, issued by the Pompeu Fabra University.
Faculty
Our expert faculty is made up of film directors, screenwriters, editors, filmmakers and sound engineers. Some of them with numerous films behind them.
Academic directors
Associate Professor UPF
Methodology
The methodology applied in this program combines, on the one hand, theoretical and technical classes on editing programs and, on the other, practical application through projects on different types of editing.
Fully practical approach
During the postgraduate course, you will carry out individual projects on different types of editing to put into practice the acquired knowledge: creation of a small visual documentary, putting into practice colours and sound in small visual pieces. They must be done outside of teaching hours in order to make the most of the classes.
Professionally active teaching staff in the sector
Your teachers are directors, screenwriters, and editors; all of them with extensive professional experience.
Use of specific tools
You will learn to use video and sound editing programs so that you can work from the first moment: Photoshop, After Effects, DaVinci, ProTools, etc.
Evaluation
Continuous assessment focused on the students' editing, with a review of the work and practices carried out by the students in each of the subjects, as well as in the final project.
Tools
Project-oriented learning and the combination of lectures and active methodologies such as case studies, flipped learning, solving real problems and professional simulations allow the student to connect theory and practice, acquire advanced skills and achieve learning which is transferable to work.
You will have:
- Master's Final Project (TFM) or Postgrad Final Project (TFP)
- A personal mentor to monitor your final project (TFM or TFP)
- Digital resources to achieve transversal skills
- Interdisciplinary activities and workshops
Professional Future
With 10 courses behind it, the Postgraduate in Audiovisual Editing guides you to become a video editor capable of adapting to the technical requirements of a film, a documentary, or a television advert. You will be able to work your creativity guided by the best filmmakers and creatives, so that you never stop creating and you can turn your passion into your profession.
Student profile
Most of the course students come from Audiovisual Communication studies, although you can also coincide with students from different academic courses such as Journalism, Fine Arts, and different Social and Humanistic Sciences. Most of them with professional experience in full development.
Career opportunities
This course is focused on specific training to be able to edit videos and participate in the post-production of films, documentaries, or other elements of audiovisual communication. It does not include an internship option due to its eminently practical orientation of learning by doing. If you want to do an internship, you should do it on your own and our professional careers department will help you with the agreement.
- Audiovisual editing professional
- Professional post-production of any audiovisual work and format
- Director of audiovisual projects and digital creator
Admission and enrolment
Our admission process consists of a rigorous evaluation of each application to preserve the quality of the group as well as the training, experience, and work capacity of all students.
Who can apply?
You will need a higher university degree to be able to apply.
Other candidates without the required university degree may take part in the selection process by virtue of their academic or professional merits and the place of work they occupy.
Those participants who do not have Spanish as one of their mother tongues or who did not have it as a teaching language in their training studies, must prove that they have at least a B2 level of Spanish (Common European Framework of Reference), as well as fluently take part in a personal interview with the academic director, if necessary.
How to apply?
To apply for admission to this program, students must read and accept the Terms and Conditions of Contract once they start the application for admission through the following form.
Application for admission
Complete your application within the next admission rounds:
Round | Application deadline | Admission resolution |
---|---|---|
10 | 24/05/2023 | 09/06/2023 |
11 | 14/06/2023 | 29/06/2023 |
12 | 22/06/2023 | 07/07/2023 |
Applications for admission will be evaluated when you complete the following steps:
- Complete the online admission form.
- Pay the €120 admission fee. This amount will be returned if you are not admitted.
- Send the following documents through the online platform e-registrar:
- Presentation letter or video
- CV
- Scanned copy of university degree (if you are in the last year of your degree, you can provide your academic records)
- Scanned copy of Transcript of Records. Make sure that it includes your GPA (Grade Point Average)
- Scanned copy of ID Card or Passport
- Passport-size photo (jpg format)
Additional documents may be requested in certain cases.
Application rounds are subject to the number of places available on the program.
Admission
- The Admissions Committee will select the candidates on the basis of a personal or CV-based interview.
- You will be notified of the admission decision in writing.
Enrolment
- Registration must be paid within a 15 days after the admission.
- Once the letter of acceptance to the program has been received, you will need to submit the following original documents before the course begins:
- Stamped and/or authenticated photocopy of your university degree.
- If you have a foreign degree you may need to submit additional documents.
- Paying the reservation fee (25% of the program's tuition fees) is essential in order to reserve your place
- If you pay the tuition fees by bank transfer you will be required to introduce the program code. The program code for this course is 2942.
- The remaining tuition fees must be paid 2 weeks before the start of the course.
Grants, scholarships and financing
Scholarships
The UPF Barcelona School of Management offers you different means of financing so that you can take any of our programs without worry. We offer you the opportunity to finance part of your program, either by rewarding your talent through scholarships, through grants from entities dedicated to promoting education or through collaboration agreements with financial entities.
Grants and discounts
Funding
Financing simulator
You can choose how to finance your studies by consulting our simulator and receive an answer in less than 24 hours.
Collaborating entities
We collaborate with various entities which provide study loans on favorable terms. For more information you can contact any of the following links.