post production essay

What decisions did you make in post production stages of your two products? evaluate the success of these decisions

Editing

• in final cut
• fix any mistakes
• base shot inter-cut with other shots
• generated images for animation
  
• lip synced the sequence
  

marketing

• looked at other ideas from exsisting digipacks
• used photoshop and illustrator to make digipack
• used opacity masks and blending effects to combine images some real and some animation
  

sound

• synced the music with the video

CGI effects

• animation in photoshop
  
• using filters, blending options and batch production process
• saved time from original sketching idea

video commentary

• used to explain various production and post production techniques

feedback on rough cut

• used audience preview to gather feed back on what did and didn't work
• we found we had to much of one shot so we re-filmed some extra shot that we could add in

transitions

• fading effects to move between real footage and animation
  
• fade to bring in the heart in the sky

thriller

editing

• final cut
• basic techniques such as cuts and simple juxtaposition
  

marketing

• used effects to create an overall image theme that could be recreated into posters and adverts

sound

• made sound track using garage band
• help make a professional sound track

CGI

• Green screen to change back ground
• made titles appear in the computer program

feedback for the rough cut

• used audience preview to gather feed back on what did and didn't work

Post production

Took influence from other films, Worked together previously and rotating character roles. All these factors effected the overall production as from taking factors from a genre they closely interlinked with, they managed to make an individual piece of comedy. The character roles worked well as it made each actors part seem spontaneous and new. And from previously working together the production team had all worked closely and performed well when creating the speciel effects, sounds and making decisions on set.

Advantages and Disadvantages of Digital Technology

In producing our music video and thriller projects we used google, youtube, wikipedia, amazon, blogger, facebook, digital camcorders, final cut, garage band, photoshop, illustrator.

The Advantages of Google

• Convenient as it has access to all information for users to view
• Readily accessible, no special hardware or software needed to access it

The Disadvantages

• Not always relevant information appears
• Can lead to false websites asking for payment for information

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The Advantages of YouTube

• Easily accessible content
• Provides access to user made and official information and videos
• A Way for users to learn new techniques
• Very good for research

The Disadvantages of YouTube

• Copyright material is very hard to upload to it, i.e. user made music videos
• Restricted by YouTube and users on what can be put on the website
• Some videos are false, as they say they are one thing when they are actually something different

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The Advantages of Wikipedia

• Readily accessible information
• Easy access to any information you may need

The Disadvantages

• Not always accurate as anyone can edit it
• Not regulated to make sure information is correct, up-to-date, and complete

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The Advantages of amazon

• Easy access to information on actual products available, e.g. digipacks, music genres
• Allows users to buy content at a decent price

The Disadvantages

• Limited information about the products as they are focused on the selling

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The Advantages of Blogger

• Easily accessible user submitted content
• Allows for users to voice their own opinions
• Allows users to use it a place to store research and project timelines, etc.

The Disadvantages

• Not restricted in terms of what can be posted
• Not regulated for what comments are posted other than the blog owner

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The Advantages of Facebook

• Social Networking, allowing access to people, groups, pages, fan pages of who you know or want to find more information about
• Easy access to talk to artists, celebrities and other users

The Disadvantages

• Sign up to access the content
• Some of the pages aren't official, fan made

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The Advantages of Digital Camcoders

• Allows easy recording of footage
• Allows easy review of footage to see if it needs to be re-recorded
• Easy to capture into a computer and be edited

The Disadvantages

• Storage media has to be kept safe to prevent data loss
• No lock to stop the footage being overwritten

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The Advantages of Final Cut

• Easy editing of footage
• Powerful Software to make professional products with filter
• Almost unrestricted in terms of what you can produce

The Disadvantages

• Expensive to buy for normal users
• Requires a bit of training to get used to how to use it

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The Advantages of Garage Band

• Create professional style music without the expense of making all of the music yourself or getting people to do it for you
• Lots of sample music which can be used as well as edited to suit the users needs

The Disadvantages

• Limited in terms of how to capture any actual music
• Difficult to get used to initially and set up to work in the right way

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The Advantages of Photoshop

• Allows users to create and edit any photo file formats
• Can create professional images
• Easy to use interface for any users to use
• Almost unrestricted design

The Disadvantages

• Training needed to get full potential of editing software
• Very Expenive to buy
• May need plug-ins or other software to make an even better image, e.g. part of Adobe Creative Suite

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The Advantages of Illustrator

• Easy to use print or web graphic production software
• Unrestricted Design Capabilites
• Widely used so lots of tutorials from users to make new style of graphics

The Disadvantages

• Expensive
• Needs Training to become very good at using the software
• May need other software in the creative suite range to make even better graphics, further expense

Jon, Jack, Jack N Post-It Animation

Here is our finished post-it animation

Planning and Research - Essay Plan

How have the advantages and disadvantages of planning and research affected your two products? (AS/A2)

With our first product, we were a bit stumped at the start, we had never done this before.

Lack of innovative ideas?

Less knowledge of genre. Lack of understanding of what to do.

Passion for media driven us to complete the work.

Passion has had a negative effect could have rushed us to complete, lack of experience of knowing how long something would take.

We had to do a lot of research which given less time to film.

Lack of experience on how to plan everything.

We are now better at organising. Common problems can still occur.

Lack of budget can restrict the capabilities available for our aspirations.

Our experience makes us able of quickly doing shots and knowing what to do in advance to use the best possible use of time. Giving us extra time to do other work.

Location was always a problem with both years. Restriction on where we could go.

Costumes and make-up were both restricted on both years due to a limit of clothing available and make up as well.

When some one was ill, it could hold back parts of the work. Especially if the actors or one of them were ill.