2. What is post production?
Post-Production is part of the filmmaking, video production and
photography, it occurs in the process predominantly after the
filming but can be done in the process of while filming, it
normally occurs onsite for photo-shoots as they colour correct to
make certain aspects of the object or person to pop out and to
make sure that only the object/person is where your eyes land
first.
Post production in no particular order consists of:
1.Colour Correction
2.Sound Balancing
3.Titles
4.Effects
5.Diegetic sound
3. Colour Correction
Colour correction is a step which has a huge effect on the visual side of any
production, it can make your short films or images go from, not to shabby
to cinema quality… that’s how much of an impact it has on a film
productions and image manipulation.
We’ve looked around and seen what software we could use to colour
correct for our film, we’ve looked at the big players such as Adobe
Premiere Pro and After Effects and even Photoshop for our posters and
titles.
We’ve decided to go with Edius 7 Pro because of the interface of the
software, it looks simple and is perfect for us as we haven’t colour
corrected a video before and we have decided to colour correct on some
scenes to test on and when we publish our film we will have colour
corrected on the whole film and give it the filmic look which will be some
what difficult to achieve as we are filming in the dark for the whole film.
4. Sound Balancing
Sound Balancing is a process of creating a soundtrack for a video, in silent
films it’s essential as it tells the story of what’s happening, it puts some
emotion into the film. For films in general it means balancing sound to
make everything fit in with the scene. E.g. two characters are talking, it’s
being filmed from inside of the car, and a car goes past, to make it more
natural we would get sound of a car passing and add that in and turn down
the levels to make it sound natural. Sound Balancing helps enhance the
video and create sound effects and make it fit into the video and make it
seem natural.
We’ve looked at Sound Balancing software's such as Audacity which is only
able to edit sound and BlackMagic Design’s DaVinci Resolve which has the
capabilities of editing sound and video and Edius 7 Pro which we decided
to go with because we won’t need to make sure that files are compatible
with each other as the sound and video editing will be done in-house on
one software and again the interface makes it easier to control and edit
with.
5. Effects
• Audio – Sound editing is a key aspect of the film as it adds some
additional feel to the film, the sound adds to the Mis-en-scene of
the film, for short films they will have less of the flame sounds,
and generic superhero sounds it will be more along the lines of
cars driving past, or the wind. This is because short films care
about the visuals and the sounds combining into one e.g. car
drives past someone who is walking and the camera is focused on
the person, while editing they will add some sounds of cars going
by etc.
• Visual editing – As I’ve stated above short films don’t have much
visual effects besides colour grading, but it depends on the type of
film, e.g. if the short film is about a guy who has powers, it’s likely
the editors will put in laser eyes etc.
6. Diegetic sound
• Diegetic Sound – Diegetic sound is primarily generated by the
objects and mainly anything we see in the frame/Image, the
sounds come from within the world of the narrative. Diegetic
sound tends to come from the sound in the location (Where
it’s being filmed), A characters ringtone will be classed as
diegetic sound as the phone comes in to the frame.
• Non-Diegetic Sound- Non Diegetic sound is sound which is
generated outside of the frame e.g. voice over or music
Most short films will stick to Diegetic sound and maybe add in
music to the end when the credit is rolling, for our film we will
need music, as the opening scene consists of one the characters
singing along to a song on the radio.
