Once pre production and production have been covered, students should get an overview of the different aspects comprising the post production stage of media production. While video editing and color correction/grading apply primarily to live action film and video production, audio post and rendering are relevant to animation and video games as well.
////////// VIDEO EDITING
Key concepts / terms
Digital Nonlinear Editing ♦ Transitions: Cut ♦ Cutaway ♦ Dissolve ♦ Shot Reverse Shot ♦ Jump Cut ♦ Fade
Resources
- The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing – Documentary by Wendy Apple
- Interview: Thelma Schoonmaker – Nick Pinkerton for Film Comment
- How Does an Editor Think and Feel? – by Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou
- How to Cut a Film – by Cinefix
- Alfred Hitchcock on 3 Theories of Film Editing
////////// COLOR CORRECTION/GRADING
Key concepts / terms
Color correction vs. color grading
Resources
Painting with Pixels– Video featurette about color grading “O’ Brother Where Art Thou”
Lord of the Rings Colour Grading – Part 1 featurette about color grading “Lord of the Rings”, examples of color grading, blue screen, compositing
////////// AUDIO POST PRODUCTION
Key concepts / terms
ADR ♦ Ambience ♦ Diegetic/Non-diegetic sound ♦ Foley ♦ Sound-design ♦ Re-recording mixer
Resources
- The Sound of “Inside Out” – Video from the SoundWorks Collection
- The Art of Silence – Taylor Ramos & Tony Zhou
- The Foley Artist – Video from the SoundWorks Collection
- Ben Burtt Interview: The Sound of Lightsabers – Youtube Video
- Star Wars Episode II Sound Design – examples of SFX creation, ADR, Foley, Voice Recording for animated characters, final sound mixing
////////// RENDERING
Key concepts / terms
Resources
- CG101: What is Rendering? – Video by Digital Tutors
