How I Made The Ultimate Editing Tutorial

Hi guys!

It’s been a week. I’m thrilled that so many people love the ultimate editing tutorial that I uploaded to the main YouTube channel last Tuesday!

It was a labour of love – making something unlike anything I’ve ever made before, mixing sketch comedy, tutorials, and cinematic scope. If you haven’t seen it, you can watch it below.

How did I make it? This video was heavily scripted – in fact, it was probably the most I’ve ever worked on a script. I needed to land every line, as there were locations that I couldn’t easily return to. Everything was planned to a point where we actually ended up having two separate scripts – the main script, and the shooting script, with all the scenes in order of the shoot and with a list of all the shots we wanted filmed.

Of course, things ended up going off script. Like, just before we introduce Teacher Fin, there’s a nightmare happening where Fin sees the other Fins laughing at him. We filmed those laughs just for coverage, an idea we had on the day, and then that ended up in the final video.

Then there was the ending. I knew I wanted to do something big, and my imagination had been going wild while I was listening to the soundtrack to Kingdom Come Deliverance 2, which is where that song originates. We ended up filming a huge scene with an anamorphic lens, all so that we could go super wide. We also filmed by a different tree to the one I thought we were going to use. There were actually a couple of location changes, like where we first meet Peasant Fin and Knight Fin was going to be somewhere completely different, but we had forgotten to pack the sword we needed, so we had to pivot to somewhere closer to home. Luckily, it all worked out.

It felt risky doing something like this – an editing tutorial with the emphasis on the filmmaking and script, rather than showing off super fancy, rention-y edits, like I had in previous tutorials. I came away super happy with the results. Hopefully, whether you’re a beginner or pro, there’s something to learn from it – and a fun story to keep you hooked.

Thanks again to everyone who’s left supportive comments. I’ve got some big videos brewing over the next few months, and I can’t wait to get them to you. Until then, happy editing,

Fin