1(a) Post Production

Post Production means: the editing stage, where material is manipulated using software and transformed into a finished media product.

Typical exam question:
“The post-production process can be the most important part of the filming process”.
How important has the post-production stage been in your foundation and advanced portfolios and how have your skills developed over these two years?


Introduction: Do you agree with the quote? Do you feel you progressed in this area?
Foundation Portfolio:
•What did the post-production process involve? (Give specific detailed examples)
•Why you used these effects/transitions/editing to create meaning
•How successful/important was it? What didn’t work?

Advanced:
• Did you do anything differently because of how the foundation task went?
•What did the post-production process involve this time? (Give specific detailed examples)
•Why you used effects/transitions/editing to create meaning
•How successful/important was this? How does it show progression?

Terminology:
•Overlap
•Fade / Wipe / Wash in/out/ Cross dissolve
•Fast / Slow motion effects
•Superimpose
•Fast cut montage effects
•Split Screen
•Colourisation – be specific


To achieve Level 3 or above you must comment and reflect on ‘media concepts’.
•Eisenstein believed that editing was: ‘the foundation of film art’
•For Eisenstein, meaning in cinema lay not in the individual shot but only in the relationships among shots established by editing.
•He created an editing style that he called "dialectical montage" that was abrupt and jagged and did not aim for smooth continuity.
•The jaggedness of Eisenstein's editing can create a sense of emotional and physical violence , but he also aimed to use editing to suggest ideas, a style he termed "intellectual montage."
•One of his films concludes with three shots of statues of stone lions edited to look like a single lion rising up and roaring, embodying the idea of the wrath of the people and the voice of the revolution.

Task:

Write 4 paragraphs explaining how you used imovie at the post-production stage
Task 2: Write 4 paragraphs explaining how you used iMovie to edit your film and create meaning?
Think about: Did you use a transition to suggest a character’s emotion? What connotations did your colourisation suggest?
•I used a fade to white to suggest that my central character was in a state of dream / a trance..
•I used the image motif of ‘feet’ as a repeated visual metaphor for the idea of the journey that the couple in my music video were going on and enhanced the colour of the trainers using a red filter effect to….
•I used the image motif of a pink balloon to suggest the connotation of… so it was important to slow the motion of this shot in the video to enable the viewer to consider this / to dramatise this / to emphasise this.

Essay structure:
•POINT – What editing tool / technique did you use? What did it suggest / connote / represent?
•EVIDENCE – Specific evidence from your film (AS? A2?)
•EXPLAIN – Have you progressed from AS to A2? How does this example show this progression? What did you experiment with? Take risks with? Were you more confident? Were you more adventurous?