Post-Production evaluation

Post production evaluation

During post-production or simply, 'post' , we incurred many obsticles including editing glitches and differed opinions regarding the score. But as a whole I thoroughly enjoyed every second spent on it.

We decided that first we would import all the footage we had then input it to the video in chronological order, then we cropped the files to the length we needed. This enabled us to quickly work out the different cuts we would need to create a smooth sequence.

While this was going on i decided to shortly leave Adam to editing while i worked on the animations of the titles by myself and once i had worked out how to used Adobe After Effects I was able to quickly assemble two title sequences that suited our short project and i asked the others to check, once they had agreed to it I put it all into motion and before we knew it the video was all edited together with only the audio to go.

But it was not easy to edit the video, as there were a lot to get through and we only had a limited amount of time. We all stayed behind after school at one point or another and spent literally hours editing until we had it perfect.

As hard as I must be to work with I have been nicknamed a 'perfectionist' and I often wasn't satisfied until the most finest of details were exactly right which meant we may have spent more time ironing out small creases in our work that could have easily been left. I just feel that saying 'that will do' means it can be better and I always strive to be create the best.

When our film didn't just look like a bunch of video clips next to each other and it started to look like artwork, which is what we were aiming for, we decided to finally add our score.

Adam and I had already sampled together various different sounds that we wanted to incorporate and when we added certain snippets to our film we knew it matched. Once we spent about an hour sorting out the film score we were finally happy with our outcome and we knew that the post stage was finally finished after about a total time of 6-7 hours.