This document provides guidance and activities for evaluating post-production skills development over an AS and A2 media studies course. It begins with defining post-production as work done after filming to refine a media product, such as editing, sound mixing, and publishing work online. Students then map the post-production skills and techniques used in their moving image and print work. Next, students participate in a paired interview simulation to discuss their post-production experience. Finally, students answer a question describing important post-production decisions made over their media productions and how their skills developed.

1. Post production
SECTION 1 A

2. Lesson Aims
◼To look at how I used post production in my AS & A2
work
LQ: HOW DO I EVALUATE MY SKILLS
DEVELOPMENT FOR POST-PRODUCTION

3. Write down a definition for the term post-production – what
does it mean and which aspect of making a media text does it
refer to?
Post production normally means all the work that take
place to refine the media product after it has been
produced.
For OCR Media Studies it means all the work that has
taken place after filming (using the camera). So it refers
to editing with Premiere Pro (this includes sound) and
Photoshop and using images/text in Wix.
It also refer to posting work and receiving audience
reaction.
DEFINITION OF POST PRODUCTION

4. DIFFERENT POST-PRODUCTION
SKILLS AND TECHNIQUES:
Make a list of all the different post-production skills
and techniques that you may have used in your
production work for your Foundation and Advanced
Portfolios. Organise these techniques into the Venn
diagram below to identify those used in the production
of moving image and print work and any that might be
used in both
Moving image
techniques:
Print
techniques:

5. Prelim Film
Opening
Lip syncing Music
Video
Advert Website
Fades
Cuts Quick, not
always
following 180
degree rule
Shows moving
between 2
scenes or
characters-
continuity
editing
Started to cut on
the beat and match
lyrics and cuts –
realised needed
more shots
Cutting on
beat. Lots of
cuts. Cutting
between
locations
Layering 2
images
Effects
Sound
Back-
grounds
Gradients
Text Used for
credits –simple
no effects
Added text
for effect
Different
fonts and
colours
Interactive
text, click on it
and action !
TRACKING POST PRODUCTION SKILLS – DRAW A TABLE
TRACKING YOUR SKILLS ACROSS ALL YOUR PRODUCTIONS

6. TALKING about post-production skills – Interviewing
Simulation Activity
Clarkson Post Production is a post-production editing
company based in Wisbech. They specialise in editing title
sequences, music videos, trailers, documentary and
various other media forms for a variety of well-known
directors. They are looking for a junior editor to join their
team. This person must have experience of a range of
post-production techniques and relevant software.

7. TALKING about post-production skills – Interviewing
Simulation Activity
 Get into a pair with someone you’ve not worked with on your
production work.
 Decide who will be A and who will be B. You are going to interview
each other for the job advertised in the box above.
 Both persons A and B will first need to think about what skills they
have in post-production and write down some examples of their
production work from the Foundation and Advanced portfolios that
they can talk about during their interview.
 You will have 5 minutes to prepare this – use the grid you did earlier.
 Person A is going to be the interviewer first and will interview
person B for the job as the junior editor.
 Person A will make notes on the answers that person B gives.
 After the interview, Person A will feedback how well they thought
person B answered the questions in the interview. Your feedback
should focus on the relevance of examples from their coursework,
range of skills in post-production techniques and ability to evaluate
their abilities.
 The interview will last 10 minutes, after which you will swap around,
with person A becoming the interviewee and person B the
interviewer.
 Repeat the interview, taking notes and feeding back.

8. APPLYING LEARNING
Answer the question below:
Describe the most important post-production
decisions you made for your different media
productions and explain why these decisions were
significant. Refer to a range of examples in
your answer to show how your skills in post-
production developed over time (25 marks).
You can choose to answer the question either chronologically
or comparatively, but you must indicate how your skills have
developed across the course of the two years
You have 30 minutes to answer this question.