Post production

As my time as a media student I have produced 2 main projects including a brief film opening and a music video. Over this period I have learnt a number of new skills of which I hadn't experienced before my time as a media student.

When I began I had no real digital technological skills and very little understanding of key media terms such as production, post production etc. This means i had no skills of premiere, photoshop, wix, slideshare and many more. Learning how to use these skills has therefore improved my ability in post production which developed a lot from year 12 to year 13.


I very quickly began to learn some key skills of post production although they was very basic. My first real taste of post production duties began on a task where I had to use Adobe Premiere to import a number of images and short clips, cutting to another image and adding music into the edit. I had no real idea of colour correcting or rendering video's to stable the camera shots which I would learn in a later stage. My skills then developed further from this 'Dancing bears' task in my next task which was 'Juno'. I now began to develop my camera skills as well as further editing qualities. I now began to the effect of cross fade and cross dissolve. This was a more interesting way than just a straight cut and was also needed to replicate the video of 'Juno'. In my Prelim task my skills developed again as now I would be using mp3 converter to add sounds into my video as well as some basic editing effects such as fade to black and additive dissolve. This showed a slight development from the dancing bears task as i gradually began to build up my knowledge of the number of effects. We made many little mistakes in this task which we didn't know how to correct in post production - out of focus shots and music out of time with the video. In my final task of making a short film opening I then began to pick up some key skills in post production which still were very basic compared to what detail I went into in my 2nd year. On this final task there was a big step up in skills than my previous prelim task. Our group now began to Photoshop a newspaper design and incorporate this into Premiere. As we had the genre of documentary our research showed us we needed many titles to allow the audience to feel it was a documentary. I now began to use Fade to black in the post production editing stage rather than just straight cuts which were used in my previous prelim and Juno tasks.

In A2 post production depth was much deeper and contained more elements. Whereas in AS post production mainly consisted of editing and making a film poster A2 included a website, Digipack, newspaper article and also Adobe premiere and Adobe after affects. I was given the role of making the bands website which included using a few gadgets such as a release date timer and also a social media link bar where you can access our twitter and Facebook page from the website. This showed much more depth in the post production through the number of different software's and websites we explored.  Steve also had a huge role in the post production stage in the form of the band's Digipak which he designed on Photoshop which involved a lot of drafting and trial and error to created the best photos suitable for our genre of Indie. All of these was not used in AS showing a development of different skills as i had never used Wix before (website creator) and i ended up making a full website. The quality of our editing also improved a huge amount with a whole new range of effects being used including a couple after effects which was a brand new software to the whole year. Some of the new effects used in our Music video that wasn't used in A2 included colour correction which enhanced the quality of individual shots giving a smooth transition. Reverse slow mo was also used for us as we thought this was effective to our concept narrative as it's unique. Using brightness and contrast effects also show how we have become more creative and critical of our product as it shows a eye for detail and perfection where in AS it was more about exploring basic effects and making sure they look professional. Time lapse was another new effect introduced which allowed us to either speed up or slow down certain shots.