About Domain

Film Editing, taught online.

Domain started in 2015 as a response to a gap — students in and around Kentville had no practical way to study film editing without commuting to larger centres. The platform delivers structured knowledge through quizzes, assignments, and immediate feedback, without requiring a fixed schedule or a classroom seat.

Film editing workspace with timeline and monitor

How the platform works

Each session is a structured sequence, not a playlist

Editor reviewing footage on a colour-graded timeline
Planning board with editing workflow stages

Assignments before answers

Every topic begins with a task. Participants attempt cuts, sequence decisions, or pacing choices before receiving explanations — a deliberate structure that builds retention faster than reading alone.

Close-up of editing controls and waveform display
9+
core editing modules across the curriculum
4.7
average rating from 184 participants

The people behind it

Two roles, one platform.

Domain is maintained by a small team. Curriculum design and technical development are handled separately, which keeps each discipline focused and prevents the common problem of features outpacing content quality.

Isolde Fennick, Lead Curriculum Designer

Isolde Fennick

Lead Curriculum Designer

Isolde structures each module around editing decisions that a working editor would actually face — rough cut pacing, L-cuts, match-on-action — rather than abstract theory.

Bart Oyelaran, Platform Developer

Bart Oyelaran

Platform Developer

Bart builds and maintains the quiz engine, feedback logic, and gamified progress tracking. His focus is on response time and accessibility across low-bandwidth connections common in rural Nova Scotia.