“The post-production process can be the most important part of the filming process”. How important has the post-production stage been in your foundation and advanced portfolios and how have your skills developed over these two years?
In AS we made a thriller film and in A2 we made a music video, both of these projects expanded my skills when it came to post production. I agree with the statement above because if there was no post production process a music video would be boring through out, I found that when making my music video and thriller film when using post production it gave a much more unique feel to our projects because we could edit them in different ways that we wanted. The postproduction stage involved loading up our footage and sorting out what shots went where, we then added effects to our footage, this would include things such as transitions and colourisation. These effects were used because it made our thriller opening and music video our own. A theorist called Eisenstein believed that editing was the foundation of art and film. In this essay I will explain to you the ways I used postproduction in my projects.
In my thriller opening I used a slow motion shot of someone walking towards a door, this represented the eeriness that may be present with this character. They way I did this was using iMovie and on the options adjusted the speed to how ever slow I wanted it to be. This editing effect was used as the protagonist was walking towards an unknown house; it also included jump shots to a person inside the house, which was not slowed down. I feel that using this type of editing effect made the thriller opening feel scarier and made the person inside the house look more vulnerable. In my music video the editing effect of slow motion was used frequently this was because the beat of the song was quite slow and we felt that turning the speed down would match the genre of music. In one shot our artist has leaves falling on her, we used slow motion in this shot and also used a reverse effect to show the leaves going in the opposite direction. I feel that the progression is clear as when making the thriller film we only used slow motion to change people’s feelings but in the music video we used slow motion to match genres.
In our AS project (thriller film) we used some colourisation, on one shot we had flashbacks occurring and thought it would be a good idea if we showed the flashbacks in black and white. We did this by using iMovie and changing the settings on colourisation to black and
white, we also increased the brightness of the black and white so it made it look like it was flashbacks in someone’s mind. In A2 (music video) we used colourisation quite a lot, because of some lighting issues we would change the brightness of a shot so it made it look clear. We also matched lyrics to visual, in one of our lyrics it says “in your world everything’s rosy” when this lyric was said that shot used with it was a fast cut montage of our artists lips, we added a pink note to the colourisation. We also used lots of different clip adjustments where you could add colourisation that was already uploaded on iMovie we used this effect when our artist was lip-syncing. Overall it is clear that my skills have developed an awful lot from AS to A2, instead of just using black and white as an effect of colourisation in AS, in A2 I have used colourisation in a way that theorists suggest such as Goodwin as one of his characteristics of a music video is matching lyrics to visuals.
In AS we used some transitions when cutting from one shot to another, we used an effect at the beginning of the opening where the protagonist looks through a key hole, in this shot we used a transition called fish eye, where a circle is made around the shot and is zoomed in, this is what it would look like if you were to look through a key hole, other than this transition the others were just simple shots like a transition called cross dissolve. In A2 I used a varied amount of transitions. I didn’t want to use too many that it made the music video look over edited. I used transitions to cut in-between shots and make them join in together. I used transitions that corresponded with the music, when a piano was playing we used a ripple effect, I think this made the visuals of the music video look very good. Overall I feel that it is proven that my skills have developed from AS to A2.
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