Post Production Essay

Explain how your post production skills have developed over time and how this has contributed to your media production outcomes.

 

From year 12 to year 13, I have developed my post production skills dramatically as I have advanced from AS to A2.

In year 12, I only had initial knowledge about editing, only using programmes such as Windows Movie Maker, and iMovie which only require very basic knowledge. Our first task of year 12 to do with post production was the 'Dancing Animals' task, where we had to import video files on to Premier Pro, use basic colour effects and transitions, but this task was simply for learning. Another slightly larger task we had to carry out was the recreation of the opening sequence of the film 'Juno' where, again, we only used very basic effects and transitions along with simple cuts. This also applies for our preliminary task of creating our own opening sequence of a musical genre which only lasted for two minutes where we played with sound by importing music into the clips. Our next task where we dealt with post production was for our film opening called 'Untamed' where there were holes in our editing as it didn't flow very well and could've massively been improved now as our post production skills have advanced massively since then.

In year 13, my post production skills had developed a lot more as we learned to use new techniques using the programme Adobe Premier Pro, such as cloning, using a screen within a screen, motion pictures and sizing and scale which came in handy when editing our 'Banana Phone' video where we got to experiment with these different effects. This helped us in becoming more familiar with Premier as we only had a very basic understanding of it at AS along with the more simple tasks we carried out. This development also increased when we were editing our music video as we had to use specific effects to enhance our genre and help continue the synergy throughout our media products.

For our print products, in year 12 we created a film poster where we just cropped the photo of our character and added text in a word document. These basic techniques we used then became much more advanced when creating the digipak, magazine cover, and tour posters, as we used programmes such as Photoshop to change the hue and saturation of the photo, crop certain parts of the image, layer photos on top of each other and create a collage of photos which link with the rest of the synergy.

Along with the rest of our post production work, our websites in year 12 and year 13 differ a lot as the first website we created at AS was used with Wix and only consisted of a homepage and a few imaged we used behind the scenes of the film. But, at AS, we created a moving background on our home page, used synergy with our font, promoted our brand image and logo, and also presented multiple different tabs and links to our social media. This also made us film more and find more creative ways of editing.