An introduction to post-production for Section A Question 1A of OCR G325 paper

1. Post Production
What skills did you develop at the stage of
post production?
G325: Section A: Theoretical Perspectives
in Media
Question 1(a)

2. What is Post Production?

3. What is post- production?
 Post Production means: the editing stage, where
material is manipulated using software and transformed
into a finished media product.
 This means everything that happens after you finish
filming / photography.

4. Post Production
• Post Production at AS consisted of editing
your prelims and openings (including the
titles sequences).

5. TASK
• You have 5 minutes to brainstorm everything
you did for your products at AS at the stage of
post-production.
• This must be detailed in terms of tools used,
the software pros /cons, your strengths
/weaknesses.
• Think about why you all chose to use Adobe
Premiere Pro and not Windows Movie Maker
for your openings.

6. Post Production at A2 consisted of editing the footage
and audio in Premiere Pro. It also included manipulating
the photographs and putting all the text and graphics
together on Photoshop.
Remember that you made three key products in A2

7. TASK
• You have 5 minutes to brainstorm
everything you did for your main
products at A2 at the stage of post-
production. This must be detailed in
terms of tools used, the software pros
/cons, your strengths /weaknesses.
• You should also detail your progression
of film editing and Photoshop skills at
stage of post production between AS
and your A2 tasks.

8. • You also have to remember that you produced and
post produced work for your both your evaluations.
• The main difference between AS and A2 for some
isn’t obvious – video to video.
• But you must be able to evaluate these skills and
think about everything that you have learned for your
entire four pieces of coursework.
Evaluations??

9. TASK
• You have 5 minutes to detail the
progression specifically from:
• Premiere Pro for prelim (some of you had
never edited).
• Premiere at AS
• Use of Photoshop at A2.
• Further advanced use of Premiere Pro at
A2.
• Any other editing software you have used

10. • Try to think about how you have
become more technically competent in
terms of your use of digital
technology to present work
creatively at the stage of post-
production.

11. •All of your work should make reference to your
knowledge of the KEY MEDIA CONCEPTS.
• MEDIA LANGUAGE
• REPRESENTATION
• AUDIENCES
• INSTITUTIONS
This can help you to develop your analysis and push
your answer into a higher level as you will be justifing
your choices.

12. Past question
 Describe a range of creative decisions that you
made in post-production and how these
decisions made a difference to the final
outcomes.
Refer to a range of examples in your answer to
show how these skills developed over time.

13. Potential Structure suggested by
OCR
Paragraph 1: should be an introduction which explains which projects
you did. It can be quite short.
Paragraph 2: should pick up the skill area and perhaps suggest
something about your starting point with it - what skills did you have
already and how were these illustrated. Use an example.
Paragraph 3: should talk through your use of that skill in early projects
and what you learned and developed through these. Again there should
be examples to support all that you say.
Paragraph 4: should go on to demonstrate how the skill developed in
later projects, again backed by examples, and reflecting back on how this
represents moves forward for you from your early position.
Paragraph 5: short conclusion.
Remember it's only half an hour and you need to range across all your
work!