*Post-Production

Post Production:

from our audience feedback we learned of a couple of things which would help if we did any media productions in the future, firstly our trailer clip was far too short, we could have got a lot more footage in, and make our clip longer, therefore appealing to the audience better, and gaining more success as a result. Also we should have included some form of dialogue within our trailer- none of the characters spoke in our trailer, this was mostly because we felt it wasn't that important however in hindsight perhaps this was a stupid mistake, and we could rectify it by giving the characters some dialogue and lines. also we learned that we could have given our titles a different font style, this could have enticed the audience further and make it so that it would suggest that our trailer was no ordinary average trailer and that it was something special.

we made different editing decisions, during our production stage, for example we opted to make our trailer light, but some of the footage we got in the morning and the rest of the footage was shot in the late evening to night-time, so this was a dilemma. we also opted during our editing that we would make a lot of fast-paced action shots for our trailer, because in action movies this is suitable because the target audience want fast-paced action scenes to entice them and actually make them want to see the full movie. these decisions informed the production by making us more weary and conscious about the effects and what they did to our trailer, we experimented with different effects such as the lighting, the camera angles and the sound, and chose what we thought would be ideal for this.

The main editing tool we used was adobe Photoshop, this was because we could edit different images and background, layers and font in the most efficient way possible for a magazine cover or poster. We used adobe premier elements for any footage editing, this was the main one we used and was better than Photoshop, because it was easier to put together clips and make cuts.

overall the post-production process enhanced our production by a significant amount. This was because we were made aware of the different shortcomings some effects could have and which effects would be most suited to adhere to the conventions of our action-themed trailer.

we have developed these skills even further at A2, Because of our experiences during our AS media production, we knew which effect would be better and why. For example we chose to do a horror-themed genre film trailer during our A" for this dark lighting, and ambient spooky music would be best, with subtle hints of dark violence in our trailer, This worked effectively and efficiently.