1A) Post- Production Info + practise question

Post - Production is about everything you do after filming to complete your media product.
How has post -production skills improved over time, FIND EXAMPLES FROM BLOGS at AS and A2

• Image manipulation
• Video Editing
• Sound Production
• Sound and video mixing

Can talk about:

• Photoshop
• Abode premiere
• After effects
• Audacity

1A) 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 answers to show how these skills developed over time.

In year 12 we produced a film opening, the EZ life. In year 13 we created a cross promotional campaign for a new artist, our artist was C.DOT. This included a music video, a website and a digipak. As a digital native, I have always being a media consumer. My A levels media studies course, has enabled me to improve my creative skills in post-production.

For my AS post-production I used a software called adobe premiere pro to enhance the shots at which we got for our film opening. At this stage I had only developed basic skills in using the tools on premiere pro. Therefore I had to use my basic knowledge for editing the final film opening, at which consisted of cutting shots, changing the colour of certain shots and some blur shots which I had previously done on the software. For my production in year 12, I needed to put a shot into anthor shot we had to do this by using a green screen, as well as descaling the image in order for the image to appear on the TV. I researched a variety of techniques in order how to do this in the best possible way through YouTube tutorials. I had to make a frame by frame adjustment when the camera moved slightly, this required a frame by frame movement onto anthor shot. This is something which I did not feel comfortable with doing at the time however after playing around with certain tools I found my own adjusted way to the YouTube tutorial, I created a split screen, with two TV’s on in the background. Although I had done this very well, there was a slight blur across the right hand screen, where the shot did not scale into the TV when I saw our final film opening. This taught me that I needed to double check the editing at which I did. In year 13, I had a bigger task for post-production at which I used Adobe premiere pro after effects in order to create an animated billboard on a zooming shot. This was something at which after AS I could learn quickly. After effects improves the quality of the shot aswell as it allows the animated billboard to look realistic and it matches the shot very well. Instead of descaling the shot, instead I had to create the animation on the billboard itself. My overall skills levels have increased the speed at which I can work, aswell as I feel comfortable with using new software’s.

In AS we had to create a film poster in our group. I created our poster on Photoshop at which I had little knowledge on when I first took media as I was used to creating posters on word or PowerPoint, which was a simple form but not as effective as Photoshop. Photoshop allowed me to have a variety of different layers at which I could all mix together. For my AS poster on Photoshop we generated the text from a website called graffitier, something at which made the font match our genre of our film, thriller. This was a website which allowed me to personally write the text in the method which I wanted aswell as having a series of effects, like changing the opacity of the text and you could have up to three background effects behind or on top of the font. This website also allowed me to place this onto Photoshop and I was also allowed to enhance the font itself, on photoshop. This has enabled me to explore various methods at which could improve my media product. In my second year of taking media, I felt confident in my ability to play around with different softwares. For our digipak, I used photoshop alongside adobe premiere after affects at which I created a parallax, the 3D effect was created by putting our aritist into a crowd, with the camera panning left to right getting a different angle from the artists view. I then added the parallax to photoshop to create our digipak.