How My Post-Production Skills Have Developed

Starting with my groups first preliminary task our post-production skills were, poor, to say the least. Our use of final cut wasn’t to its full extent as the editing was rather jumpy and didn’t quite flow as we wanted, despite thinking it was good at the time. During our children’s film opening our skills enhanced as we learnt how to add credits into our final cut editing, though we tried showing off our newfound skills by making the credits move and interact with the clip. Later in our Thriller opening we learnt that keeping credits simple and static was often a better technique, as it was more effective. During our Thriller we also learnt how to correct our mistakes, we were forced to dub over one of our main speeches, as the sound quality was too poor, with too much background sound. In our initial Lip-Sync task, we learnt how to line up our scenes more effectively. This project helped our scene changes become more fluid, because if we had the timing slightly off then the lip-syncing would become too noticeable. During the Post-Production period of our actual music video we used all of the techniques we had previously learnt, refining on them to make our project as good as possible. However, we also managed to learn some new post-production skills, such as using colour correction, which we used to enhance the contrast amongst scenes and hide some natural mis-haps (whilst shooting it got dark where as it was light before). We also learnt how to combine Photoshop with Final Cut, which is a rather simple technique, and was surprised on not knowing how to do so before. From all these experiences and skills learnt, we have managed to enhance our creative aspects, as knowing how to do these skills gave us a wider possibility of what we could do, rather than the set way of doing things such as what we made at the beginning of College.