Post production.

What decisions did you make in the Post production stages of your two products?Evaluate the success of these decisions.


A2 Music Video.

Introduction:

Discussing the main points (Post Production Elements):
- Editing: We all made the decision to keep it simple, which is more powerful and less nauseous. ..We came to this decision from looking at our peer feedback that we achieved, as some of them did have problems with the effects.
- Consumption/Exchange:
- Marketing (Digipack): decided that wanted to realate the genre to the digipack, also wanted it to stand out against others in shops &be eye catching, while also keeping it simple.
- Sound: We only used the sound from the song as we felt that any other sounds would confuse the audience & wouldn't be appropriate for our video. From the feedback we achieve this very well as they really liked it and thought that it fitted in nicely with the genre type.
- CGI Effects: Did not use this.
- Video Commentary: We decided to show the audience what we look like, & jump from the video to us so that they knew what we were talking about, whilst talking over the top. We also put in clips of other videos and stills of our digipack. This proved effective in our video and from our feedback we found out that many people liked the effect of adding the clip of the existing video by lily allen to our video, although some of the commentary was abit quite and hard to hear for the audience.
- Feedback: The feedback on our blog helped us with constructive critism on our music video, digipack and video commentary.
- Roughcut: When we made our roughcut we didnt have all of our footage, so we put in clips with writting on telling people what these clips would contain and what to expect.
- DVD Menu: We wrote down the tracks and made up some special features/live clips in order on the back of the cover of our DVD Digipack idea.
-Transitions/Effects: we were going to use effects but in the end they would have confused the viewer so we scrapped that. Then for transitions we used a basic transition that faded the previous clip into the next making it simple and bold.

Conclusion: Summing it all up.

After watching the DONKEY PUNCH extras; Interview with Director Olly Blackburn, we could see the evaluative decisions made during the post production stage. The film was broadcast at SunDance film festival and the director and producer could reflect on audience responses before marketing and releasing.

Post Production

In the Bourne Ultimatum the director decided to not use many visual effects but to create various techniques for real.

For instance they filmed the rooftop chase scene for real in the location that they wanted to be in.

They used Cable Cameras to film this footage as Dolly's aren't fast enough and the angle of footage is off of the roof. To do this they hung cameras from cranes on cables to move the cameras across. This had complications as they had to contend with going over power lines and other cabling to make it filmable. They were also able to pre-program the cameras to do specific motions as well as manually controlling them.

For the jumping over glass on the wall scene they used Toffee glass to allow the character to safely jump over as well as it creating a realistic crushing image and sound. This was better than CGI or silicon glass as CGI cannot create a realistic view and Silicon glass is extremely flexible.

They also used Jump Cams to follow the character as he jumps off of a building and lands in the kitchen window of the opposite building. To do this they used a Stunt man to film the character and jump with them into the building.

This involved a small bit of CGI to remove safety mats, cables for the cameras as well as removing some people out of windows who were watching the filming.

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.

Snatch - 2 Interesting Decisions

2 interesting decisions made during Post Production.

• Several Scenes were deleted due to difficult editing (Fast cuts) and poor sound quality (such as background noise) which could not be avoided (i.e traffic) . The director thought that the scenes did not tell the audience much and did not have the right feel. This effected the look of the final product as all of the scenes fit and they were all quite busy scenes rather than quiet simple scenes.
  

• Some dialogue was changed during scenes i.e Vinnie Jones kept forgetting his lines and making new ones which Guy Richie (Director) thought were better than the originals. There were also parts that were filmed but then changed as the different dialogue improved how the scenes flowed.
  

Evaluation

We watched Lost In Zombie land and compared it to our thriller and music video projects.

We chose 3 main similarities:

They had a tight and importance to keep in time, when they shot their film, so did we, as we were allowed 2 weeks to do ours.

Another one was we both used Final Cut to edit our films. And we also layered clips to create more interesting and complecated edited shots.

We also used make-up and had to create it and decide on how it will look and which is the best way to do it. They had the same problems and though they had a bigger budget they had to research and find out what works best, just like us.

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.