Post-production refers to the tasks that must be completed after filming ends, including editing raw footage together into a coherent storyline, adding music and special effects, and re-recording lost audio. It transforms individual scenes into a finished film. For horror films specifically, key post-production stages involve adding sound effects like footsteps or creaking doors to enhance tension and scare the audience by making noises seem louder than in real life.

1. Post – Production Investigation
By Shannen Leader

2. What is Post-Production?
• Post-production refers to the tasks that must be completed or executed after
the filming or shooting ends. This includes tasks such as the editing of raw
footage to cut scenes, insert transition effects, working with voice and sound
actors, and dubbing, to name a few of the many pre-production tasks. Post-
production is the third and final step in film creation. It follows the pre-
production and production phases.
• Post production turns individual scenes, called raw footage, into a finished
motion picture. Editors splice all of the usable footage together into a
coherent storyline according to the script. Composers add background music
to create dramatic or comical effects. Special effects teams add computer-
generated images and backgrounds to enhance the set or provide an as-yet-
unseen character. All of this work can only be performed during post
production.
• Post production may also involve fixing mistakes not corrected during principal
shooting. Quite often an actor's microphone will not pick up crucial bits of
dialogue or another microphone may pick up extraneous noises. During post
production, an actor may have to return to a sound booth in order to re-
record lost dialogue or improve the original delivery
• Another function of post production is to add incidental sound effects not
captured during the original scenes. A specialist called a Foley artist will
record such sounds as an actor's footsteps, a creaking door or gunshots.

3. What Post – Production stages do
you need to create a Horror film?
• In the Post – Production part to creating a Horror film, with the
genre Horror it could either be adding the sound effects of
someone's footsteps in the background to make the
audience realise someone else in in the house, or either the
creaking of a door opening and closing. It gives a bigger
impact compared to it actually happening in real life as it
obviously wouldn’t be as loud.