Make Music Day UK are running a series of workshops to help you to develop the skills that you need to bring music to your communities on 21 June. This workshop focuses on the basics of video editing using free software. It will be led by Make Music Day UK's very own Leon who is a tech-whizz on audio-visual productions. It will help you to produce your own video content for Make Music Day and beyond!

As part of this demonstration-style workshop we will cover:

• receiving / organising files
• getting to know Shotcut - arguably one of the best freeware video editors that works on all computer systems
• how to sync footage (if recording with multiple cameras / microphones)
• how to sensitively grade your footage to make it look more lifelike or striking
• how to brand your video to show off that this is your group: including adding logos, start cards, idents etc
• best practices to export and publish your final video in the best quality

As well as the demonstration of different software such as Shotcut, Canva and Headliner, there'll also be time for Q&A on each of the tools.

There’ll also be time to talk about your ideas for Make Music Day 2021 and meet other people who are getting involved in creating the world’s largest DIY music festival.

This workshop is suitable for beginners and is a great introduction to some useful tools and key skills.

We’d love it if you could join us!