H E L K P R O D U C T I O N S

PROBLEMS WHICH MAY OCCUR DURING POST PRODUCTION

WHAT IS POST PRODUCTION?

Post production in a literal sense means the work done on a film after filming has taken place. This means the finalising of the film and the editing that takes place to make the film a higher quality which could make it look more professional. • This includes tasks such as the editing of raw

footage to cut scenes, insert transition effects, working with voice and sound actors, and dubbing, to name a few of the many pre-production tasks. Post-production is the third and final step in film creation. It follows the pre-production and production phases.

MAIN ISSUES There may be problems/issues that could occur in our short film during post production, which we may not be able to film again, however there are many resolutions to mend them, by using editing software. Problems we may face during the post production may involve, bad lighting or colouring, a varied sound balance in between clips and the film being quite jumpy and may not run as smoothly as we would have liked. In order to prevent these problems, we would have to research into the editing software that is accessible to us (we would be using Edius 7 to edit) we can colour grade our film to make it look darker than it is to set the film in the evening.

LIGHTING

Lighting may be an issue, as we are shooting on the moors in the day, but want our film to look like it was set in the late evening. If the lighting in the film doesn’t look quite right when we have finished filming, we can edit the brightness and contrast through the use of our editing software, by making an “S” shape when using the YUV curve. This will bring the darkness of the shot down and make it look later in the day. We filmed in the day as we found that it is easier to edit a light scene to look dark, than to edit a dark scene to look lighter.

SOUND Sound may be a problem we could potentially face in the process of pre production, as their may be factors such as the wind or the sound of the car engine, that could be louder than other shots, as we plan to vary the shots. We can however, resolve this issue by balancing the sound levels whilst the editing stage of our short film. We can do this by selecting the clip with the loud sound and turning the volume of the clip down, we will do this until the volume of the clip is balanced and matches the sounds levels of the other clips. This may be necessary, when editing the moors and the graveyard scene, as the weather was very windy, resulting in loud wind in the clips sound.

COLOUR

As we want to set our film in the late evening, but have filmed in daylight, we will need touse colour correcting, to give the film a dark blue tinge to make it look like it has been set in the evening. We can do this by playing with the 3 way colour wheel on EdiusPro 7, which we will be using to edit our film. We can also use the YUV curve to reduce the brightness to make it look later in the day.