Introduction to post-production
- 1. THE STAGES of Post-Production
- 2. ACQUISITION • Digital camera footage • Film scanning (?) • Videotape (?) • Digital audio • Photographs? Documents? Screenshots?
- 3. LOGGING • Essential for efficient production • Where’s my stuff ? • Discover “happy accidents” • Boring! :(
- 4. EDITING • “Offline” editing • Make or break a production • Highly creative process • Highly technical process…?
- 5. CONFORMING • “Online” editing • Difficult jigsaw puzzle • Numerical process (EDLs, reel numbers, frame numbers) • Single frames make all the difference • Transitions
- 6. VISUAL EFFECTS • Expensive? (No!) • But… time-consuming*! • Time = money = can you afford either? • *Some skill/experience required (probably)
- 9. MASTERING • Digital cinema? • Blu-ray? • DVD? • YouTube? • Mobile phone? • Film…?
- 10. IT’S NOT THAT DIFFICULT • You can use any of these techniques right now • Regardless of budget • Do you have a laptop? (iPads don’t count)
- 11. POST-PRODUCTION for Production
- 12. DIGITAL CINEMA CAMERAS • “Super” high definition • Glorified phone cameras • Lenses more important than body • Flash memory cards (please buy them!) • Watch the footage! (But later…)
- 13. DIGITAL IMAGE TECHNICIAN • Responsible for footage coming off the camera • Stores the footage securely • Complicated procedures? • Checks the quality? • Logging?
- 14. LOGGING (ON-SET) • Script supervisor? • Anyone at all taking notes? • Streamline with software? • synaesthesia.surrealroad.com
- 15. COLOUR CORRECTION (ON-SET) • Makes the DoP happy • Necessary? • Look-up tables (LUTs)
- 16. VISUAL EFFECTS CONSIDERATIONS • Chroma key (aka Blue/Green screen) • Tracking markers • Lighting! • Logging! • 3D
- 17. “FIX IT IN POST” • No. • Really no. • (If you have to).