post production essay plan

Introduction

Post production means the changing of footage whilst editing such as;

• consumption
• marketing/ exchange
• sound
• cgi effects
• video commentary
• feedback= rough-cut
• menu for dvd
  
• credits
• subtitles

Main Body = Thriller

with our thriller open, we used sound, credits, feedback to make it look more realistic.

we did a basic soundtrack to go with the footage. we'd talk about how when watching the footage back from production we'd pick out which points would work well with the soundtrack we created and how it would create suspense.

we used basic transitions and editing to create our thriller as we were just used to playing around with the software.

Music video

Post Production- lost in zombieville

Three things we found interesting in the talk through for lost in zombie ville were three things we used in our products or had trouble with. These three things are;

One problem that affected the maker of lost in zombie ville was apparent is that during production they encountered problems working in the cold weather, which affected their footage when it came to post production and editing. With our music video we encountered the problem of not being able to shoot outside when we wanted to because of the wet conditions. This overall affected our piece's direction and eventually our post production editing of the footage we had.

Planning and Research Essay Plan

How have the advantages and disadvantages ofplanning and research effected your two products (As/A2)

Introduction= What we wanted to do with our products, how we wanted the audience to read it

Main body = music video

Advantages=

• Effective "sin city" effect
• Kept to genre characteristics well
• Good pitch
• Researched into stages we were unsure off to help us
• Good, helpful feedback which helped improve our footage
• Storyboard, call sheets which we could refer to when filming

Disadvantages=

• Didn't have a back up plan
• Members of group failed to turn up when filming
• Some lip syncing was out of place
• Had repeated footage which had to be replaced so more filming needed
• Commentary had more talking to certain members of the group and not shared out evenly

Conclusion= What we thought overall, what we liked most/least, overall final video, feedback, improvements- what we would do if we had more time etc,

Thriller=

Advantages=

• Good research into genre, plot setting etc

Disadvantages=

• Didn't have a great setting but did our best with what we had.