Post – Production Investigation

By Shannen Leader

What is Post-Production?• Post-production refers to the tasks that must be completed or executed after

the filming or shooting ends. This includes tasks such as the editing of raw footage to cut scenes, insert transition effects, working with voice and sound actors, and dubbing, to name a few of the many pre-production tasks. Post-production is the third and final step in film creation. It follows the pre-production and production phases.

• Post production turns individual scenes, called raw footage, into a finished motion picture. Editors splice all of the usable footage together into a coherent storyline according to the script. Composers add background music to create dramatic or comical effects. Special effects teams add computer-generated images and backgrounds to enhance the set or provide an as-yet-unseen character. All of this work can only be performed during post production.

• Post production may also involve fixing mistakes not corrected during principal shooting. Quite often an actor's microphone will not pick up crucial bits of dialogue or another microphone may pick up extraneous noises. During post production, an actor may have to return to a sound booth in order to re-record lost dialogue or improve the original delivery

• Another function of post production is to add incidental sound effects not captured during the original scenes. A specialist called a Foley artist will record such sounds as an actor's footsteps, a creaking door or gunshots.

What Post – Production stages do you need to create a Horror film?

• In the Post – Production part to creating a Horror film, with the genre Horror it could either be adding the sound effects of

someone's footsteps in the background to make the audience realise someone else in in the house, or either the

creaking of a door opening and closing. It gives a bigger impact compared to it actually happening in real life as it

obviously wouldn’t be as loud.