Summary of article and all things post- production

During post- production for the TV series Utopia Munden and colourist Aidan Farrell carefully colour- correct each shot to ensure that they maintained their comic book look.  They purposely use colours like yellow and turquoise to help with the comic book look, but as the TV series has grown they have been able to pay for more yellow and turquoise colours to be used within the sets this is to make the job easier and less time consuming during post- production.

Today we learnt about post- production and what post- production actually entails.  Post- production is the last stage of film production regarding sound, editing and titling.  People often think post- production is for correcting mistakes that were made during filming and this can be done during post- production but that is not the sole purpose of it.  Planning (pre-production) and production is essential as post- production can only do so much if the original footage is inadequate.  And finally, in post- production the audio will be mixed and extra sounds will be added.

Things I will need to consider when I have completed my film opening and are working in post- production: Making sure the mise-en-scene is done correctly this is to make sure the opening is believable for the audience and doesn't present any form of confusion for them; this may result in using dramatic license throughout to make post- production easier and prevent any re- filming as a result of mise-en-scene and continuity errors.

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First Blog

Welcome to my blogsite!

Media Studies is a completely new study for me which is quite daunting and will present a challenge but, I'm extremely excited for what the course will bring as I have always had a love watching and engaging in films.  I'm hoping Media Studies is going to help me understand why things are done the way they are on films and TV, and why they have such an impact on the audience.

I can't wait to get started!  I'm especially looking forward to the editing of my Media content; this is because I feel that the films/ TV programmes are made within the editing and without editing people like you and me would simply not watch them, and for this purpose I'm intrigued to see how it's done and give it a go myself.

We have already been set our first task (to create a 2 and a half minute film opening) and I can't wait to get behind (or even in front) of the camera, I've already had a few surging ideas using the different camera angles we have recently learnt.

Hopefully you will enjoy the final film on this journey!