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Video Editing Internship
Edit real videos for an organisation — from organising footage to delivering platform-ready exports.
Work with a media house, NGO communications team or content creator to plan, edit, refine and deliver videos to deadlines and brand standards.
Entry requirements
- Completion of the Rescue Academy Video Editing program (Beginner level or above), or a showreel review
- Completion of the Workplace Readiness level
Prerequisite skills
- Cut on a timeline with clean audio
- Apply basic colour correction
- Export for social platforms
Learning objectives
- Organise media and follow a post-production workflow
- Edit stories that meet a brief
- Deliver consistent sound, colour and graphics
- Export and archive correctly
Competencies you will develop
Media managementStory editingAudio clean-upColour correctionMotion titlesExport and deliveryConsent and ethics
Internship modules
Weekly plan
| Week | Module | Focus |
|---|---|---|
| Week 1 | Post-Production Workflow | Ingest |
| Week 2 | Post-Production Workflow | Story |
| Week 3 | Editing the Story | Rough cut |
| Week 4 | Editing the Story | Fine cut |
| Week 5 | Sound, Colour and Graphics | Sound |
| Week 6 | Sound, Colour and Graphics | Picture |
| Week 7 | Delivery and Archiving | Exports |
| Week 8 | Delivery and Archiving | Archive |
Final internship project
Programme Video Package
Deliver a long and short version of a real programme video with captions, branded graphics and an archived project.
Deliverables
- Paper edit
- Final long and short versions
- Caption files
- Archived project and delivery note
How you are evaluated
| Criterion | Weight |
|---|---|
| Storytelling | 25% |
| Technical quality (sound, colour, graphics) | 25% |
| Workflow and file management | 15% |
| Ethics, consent and professionalism | 15% |
| Internship report and reflection | 20% |
Internship report
8–12 pages plus appendices, submitted as PDF within one week of the placement ending.
- Summary
- The host organisation and your role
- Work completed, with evidence
- Post-production workflow
- Challenges and how you handled them
- Skills developed and reflection
- Recommendations to the host organisation
Portfolio evidence
- Final videos (with permission)
- Before/after colour stills
- Paper edit
- Supervisor's evaluation
Expected professional outcomes
- Work as a junior or assistant video editor
- Deliver organisational video content to brief
Outcomes describe skills practised during the internship. Rescue Academy does not guarantee employment.
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