Post-production

Post-production is the course of events and actions that take place once all the footage for the film has been recorded. One of the main tasks is the editing, making sure all the footage is transfered onto the editing software; Adobe Premiere Pro. After this, all the scenes and shots need to be placed in the correct order, they need to be cut and manipulated so they fit correctly. The sound clips need to fit along with this, and the sound levels need to be mixed so that there are no noticeable jumps in sound throughout the duration of the film.

Day 1
No progress was made during the first day, this was due to the fact that we realised we had broken the 180 degree rule earlier in our first filming session. Once we captured what we filmed, this became apparent to us.

Day 2
We captured and logged what we had re-filmed of the scene on the road. We captured what we had filmed from the hall scene also. This was then placed into Premiere Pro and we began cutting and editing the length of the clips so that they fit together.

Day 3
We logged and captured what we had filmed in Oscars Pizza. James wasn't present at the time of filming, so this was his first time seeing what we had done. Like we did with our previous clips, they were added and tweaked to fit loosely for the time being.

Day 4
During our fourth day, we went over all of what we had so far and made sure it was cohesive. Some bits were missing as we hadn't filmed them yet, so we had to work with what we had.

Day 5
After we filmed scenes 1, 2, 8, 10 and 11 we had a fair bit of video and sound to work with. It took quite a while to log all of these, we encountered many unwanted takes which slowed this entire process down. Mixing sound levels became an issue once again and took hours to edit before we were satisfied with how the sound coincided with the video.

Day 6
More footage had been captured and logged and these were edited and mixed. We focused a lot on the introduction on this day. We decided on which piece of music we were going to use and we had some issues regarding the title of the film. Along with this, we found a suitable font for our film and used this for the various names and the title. As well as the introduction, we worked on the end credits, which luckily didn't take long.

Day 7
After the majority of our editing had been almost completed. We realised we needed to add in the voiceovers. The appropriate sound clips were timed and added to the scenes so that they fit correctly. This took quite a long while to finish because the times we had estimated for the voice clips were shorter than how long they actually were. We had to cut small gaps and place them closer together to make sure they fit.

Day 8
During this day, we looked over feedback that we received from our audience feedback segment and began to implement some of the problems that were mentioned. This included shortening the introduction and the scene on the stairs which contained far too many transitions.

Final day
On the final day. TWe had to re-visit our introduction to shorten it more so and the title was finally changed to something more appropriate 'Job.'. Tracking down the font we previously used was a difficult task because we were experiencing some problems with the internet. There were some issues regarding the font size and its thickness, so a few hours were spent tweaking the titles. The end credits were completed in order to match the ending of the film.


Below are some problems that we faced during the post-production

This was during the opening sequence. The opening sequence gave us a handful of problems and had to be tweaked repeatedly throughout the entire editing process. Our main problem was finding a way to loop the song we used for our film and make sure that it didn't sound as if it jumps or cuts. We then found that that the introduction was too long and some shots needed to be shortened or removed (Our audience feedback also showed this as well). This was when another problem developed - once we had shortened the introduction, we had to modify the loop of the song once again so that it fitted.

Once we reached the editing stage, we realised that the shot seemed slightly slanted. We could have used one of the effects/options to turn it so that it looked straight but it would have resulted in a loss of quality. The loss of quality was not an option as it would look completely out of place. Luckily the slant is not that apparent and is easily missed.

This scene was only a problem because of the sound. During one of the main lines, Geoff said one word far louder than any other. There was a significant sound spike and we had to spend a fairly long amount of time trying to make sure that it was reduced.