Post-production
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Post-production occurs in the making of audio recordings, films/movies, videos and television programmes. It is the general term for all stages of production happening between the actual recording and the complete record, film or video.
Post-production is in fact many different processes grouped under one name. These typically include:
- Editing the picture.
- Editing the soundtrack.
- Writing and recording the soundtrack music.
- Adding visual special effects - mainly computer generated imagery and digital compositing.
- Adding audio sound effects - like ADR, Foley, sound design and sound designers' actions.
- Color grading, and neg cutting the final master copy from which release prints will be made (although this may be made obsolete soon by digital cinema technologies).
Other film production stages include (very broadly) - financing, pre-production, writing the screenplay, rewriting the screenplay (repeat), and the actual shooting.
Major post-production companies include
- Ascent Media
- BUF company
- Cinesite
- Digital Domain
- EFilm
- Framestore CFC
- Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound
- LaserPacific
- The Mill
- Weta Digital
- Treehouse Media
- Mercury Media
- Euro Rscg Drtv
Reference
- Paul Read. A Short History of Cinema Film Post-Production (1896 - 2006). In: Joachim Polzer (editor). Zur Geschichte des Filmkopierwerks. (On Film Lab History). Weltwunder der Kinematographie. Beiträge zu einer Kulturgeschichte der Filmtechnik. Volume 8.2006. April 2006. 336 pages. (available through amazon.de) -- ISBN 3-934535-26-7
External links
- [UK Post - Trade association representing the UK's post-production industry]
- [Post Magazine - Post-production industry news and white papers]
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