As people spend more time at home to prevent illness, the culture of staying indoors?known as jibkok or bangkok (living only at home without going outside)?is emerging. This is an era where various lifestyle culture fields such as performances (concerts), travel, food exploration, and art galleries are all produced as videos or made available online (via websites and mobile).
Especially in the performance sector, regardless of genre, musicals, live concerts by singers, and plays are booming as if the era of the home theater has truly arrived. Although the vivid emotion and entertainment may be somewhat lacking compared to watching and listening directly at the venue, comfortably enjoying high-quality videos at home during times like these is quite satisfying. As various videos are broadcast to suit the home theater era, interest in video editing naturally increases. With video activities expanding widely, including on platforms like YouTube, which everyone knows, let's explore the prospects and job preparation in the video field.
First, the video field is divided into two categories: motion graphics and YouTube video editing. Broadcasting stations, video advertising agencies, and the film industry sometimes have separate video shooting teams for professional video production, but in today's one-person media era, the focus is on video editing, with individuals handling both shooting and editing themselves.
Motion graphics video editing is closer to video design. It involves creating flashy graphic designs and producing results through video compositing called Computer Graphics (CG), chroma key, effects, scene transitions, subtitle effects, and music and sound editing. It covers broadcasting directing and graphic video design tasks, and as an on-site shooting and 3D-based video editing designer, employment prospects are very broad, including broadcasting stations, broadcast advertising agencies, and corporate in-house training managers.
If you have a sense of video shooting and editing, you can also work as a one-person creator YouTuber on platforms like YouTube or AfreecaTV. As your recognition as a YouTuber rises, you can even engage in broadcasting station celebrity activities. Many terrestrial or cable variety shows recruit new faces or familiar public figures to reveal YouTubers' daily lives or recent activities to secure a large audience.
If a motion graphics video editing expert aims to get a job at a company, a professional video portfolio is required. However, if you hope to debut on YouTube, your video editing skills do not need to be professional. New and fresh ideas or videos like 움짤 (short videos with movement) are actually more appreciated by the public. By learning representative programs such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe After Effects, you can create videos ranging from easy cut edits to those with various effects, and to prepare a video portfolio needed for employment, learning 3D Max to show depth and realism allows you to produce high-quality videos.
For preparing to become a video editing professional, government-supported free training programs are recommended.
Government-supported free training refers to a system where the Ministry of Employment and Labor partially supports training costs for job seekers and workers to enhance their job competitiveness. The National Strategic Industry Job Training and Employment Success Package Type 1 offers 100% government-funded free training, while Employment Success Package Type 2 and the National Tomorrow Learning Card for employed and unemployed individuals provide up to 85% government support. Using the National Tomorrow Learning Card for employed and unemployed persons, training costs of 3 million to 5 million KRW per person can be supported, among other benefits. To issue the National Tomorrow Learning Card, you can apply via the HRD-Net website or visit the local employment support center.
The features of the video editing government-supported free training course at Ijen Academy Computer School include holding video editing portfolio exhibitions by class, the advantage of learning video planning, shooting, and editing all at once, and above all, perfectly equipped YouTube creator practice. If you are hesitant to start a YouTube channel or want to try planning and practicing YouTube content, the course covers YouTube channel planning, operation, shooting, video editing, marketing, and advertising as a one-person media. This is why job seekers and working students come to the academy even without special advertising. The academy clearly aims to nurture talents as video experts by dedicating more practice time to video production and YouTube channel operation.
The government-supported free training courses at Ijen Academy Computer School include ▷Video Editing Motion Graphics (Premiere, After Effects, Internet Broadcasting Editing, YouTube Video Editing) ▷Digital Multimedia Video Content Production ▷Digital Motion Graphics Video Editing (Premiere, After Effects) ▷Video Editing and YouTube Creating (YouTube Videos), among others.
Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, Ijen Academy Computer School has won the Education Service Brand Award for four consecutive years and operates 16 campuses nationwide, including Gangnam, Jongno, Sinchon, Nowon, Dangsan, Songpa, Anyang, Uijeongbu, Guri, Ilsan, Ansan, Gimpo, Seongnam Bundang, and Jeonju.
You can check the video editing government-supported free training courses of Ijen Academy Computer School on their website.
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