We’re living in a digital age in which the moving image and the ability to create moving images are now as common as the still image. Just about everyone has a video camera of some sort, whether it is in a camera phone, a dedicated video camera or some other device. Video literacy is the foundation of mass media in the twenty-first century and being literate in producing edited content is found from schoolchildren to professional editors.

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