Post-production

Post-production is the key stage for a final piece as it involves editing the sections which were filmed to combine together for a final outcome, for us this was making the opening. 

Our post-production was really good as we all in-putted ideas that were considered to lead to a successful opening but some ideas were declined as they appeared inappropriate as they headed away from our original idea that we had agreed on or they made the opening look mismatched. 

Our editing was completed predominantly by one person as they had access to a portable Apple Mac which they could use at both home and school, this meant that we could not all input. The use of one computer made sense as it meant all our work was in one place and was not being moved multiple times across lots of computers but this meant there was a lot of pressure of this individual. 

Although we had this one person editing a lot, myself and the other two candidates researched copyright free music tracks to add to our piece to create tension and improve our psychological horror based opening. 

However, for our trailer I believe it would be better to use a school Apple Mac as we can all access it and edit it equally, which will remove the pressure of having one person edit it all. I would also stick to the use of iMovie as this provides a range of editing tools such as colour corrector, multiple fonts and effects, whereas Windows Movie Maker is portrayed to be more basic and does not necessarily result in a very professional piece. 

Our preliminary task may have appeared to be suitable for a younger audience from the transition at the end. The post-production of it was a bit basic but we did experiment with different transitions through the entrance of the text at the end. 

Our progress from the preliminary task to our final opening evidently shows a huge improvement, not only in the quality of the clips but also the sleekness of the cuts and transitions.