Post production involves editing raw footage and transforming it into a finished media product using software. The document discusses the post production process for several of the student's projects during their AS and A2 courses. This included editing prelims and thriller openings in Final Cut Pro at AS level. At A2, post production consisted of editing footage and audio in Final Cut Pro, manipulating photographs in Photoshop, and assembling text and graphics in Photoshop and Wix. The document prompts the student to reflect on the post production skills and software used for their projects, and how their skills have progressed from iMovie to Final Cut Pro to more advanced use of software like Photoshop.

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 Thriller openings (including
the titles sequences).

5. TASK
• You have 10 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 Final Cut
Pro and not iMovie for
your thrillers

6. Choose 4 - 5 key things you did in iMovie
at the post-production stage for and
explain them in detail. Why did you do
them?
Sample sentence starters:
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….

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

8. 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.

9. Choose 4-5 key things you did in Final Cut
at the post-production stage for and
explain them in detail.
Sample sentence starters:
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….

10. Writing about Photoshop
For A2, list specific tools you used in Photoshop, and
the effect they were used to create. (you could do this
as a chart).
What did you learn about this programme? Often you
learnt thing through trial and error, or you wanted to
create something specific and had to learn how!
Why was this a good tool to use?
Even though you only used in in A2 you will have
developed skills – some of you had none to start
with….

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

12. • 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.
• What impact did this have on meaning created?
The Target Audience? The Narrative?
Characters?

13. Have you become more
sophisticated in post production?
A Little A Lot

14. HOW?
How has your approach to post-production
become more sophisticated, e.g. consider
your use of sound or editing, comparing
how your approach to and use of these have
developed between your preliminary task
and your A2 productions. What about the
way you used effects? Transitions?

15. Typical Essay Question
Discuss how you have used increasingly more sophisticated
post production skills in your course work. How have
these skills helped you to produce better products?

16. Choice of 3 questions...remember they start
with a statement as below for you to ultimately
answer as part of your evaluation.
“A media product is primarily created at the stage of
editing”. In your own experience detail how far the
meaning of your product was constructed at the
stage of post production.
“Creativity is something that is inherent and cannot be
learned”. In your experience detail how the post
production of your media products developed
your creative skills.
“Consumers are now media producers”. In your
experience detail how far the post production of
your work was enabled by the digital technology
available to you.