Reels Editing & Trend Craft

1. 01 The Hidden Forces that Shape Behavior Why things catch on: the invisible social forces that make people copy — and diverge Knowledge at Wharton 1 Ivy League 13 min
2. 02 CAM Colloquium - Duncan Watts: Contagion on social networks (Part 1) How trends actually spread — and why chasing virality is a fragile strategy CAM - Cornell Center for Applied Math Colloquium 1 Ivy League 33 min
3. 03 The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant | TED Trend adaptation versus originality: how original work is actually produced TED 4 Educational 15 min
4. 04 How Christopher Nolan Elevates the Movie Montage Where meaning comes from in editing: building a montage that states something StudioBinder 4 Educational 9 min
5. 05 The 3 Essential Elements of Suspense Explained — How Fincher, Carpenter and Refn Create Suspense Holding attention across a whole clip: controlling what the viewer knows, and when StudioBinder 4 Educational 17 min
6. 06 How Music Moves Us: Exploring the Connection Between Music and Emotions Sound selection: why a piece of music changes how everything above it feels Center for Science and Society (Columbia University) 1 Ivy League 107 min
7. 07 Meet Wendy Wood, Author of Good Habits, Bad Habits Posting cadence as habit engineering, for the creator and the audience USC Price 2 Peer institution 55 min
8. 08 Practicum · working creator How to Create Irresistible Hooks (and blow up your content) A working short-form creator walks through how he builds the opening of a vertical video, applying Lecture 5's suspense mechanic (controlling what the viewer knows and when) at the scale of a Reel's first seconds Kallaway P Practitioner 17 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Kallaway — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.