Creative Postproduction: Editing, Sound, Visual Effects, and Music for Film and Video provides essential insight into the postproduction process for general film students, those headed for careers as directors, cinematographers, producers, or writers, and those who want to pursue a career in the area of postproduction itself. While focusing on the creative aspects, it discusses many technical considerations along the way, and covers up-to-date technological developments. The clear language and a wealth of real-life experience shows readers how creativity continues to the very end of the filmmaking process.
Written by four award-winning, working professionals in film and television, this text provides students with first-hand insight into the business. It includes comprehensive coverage of editing, sound and visual effects, postproduction processes, and film music, giving students a well-rounded view of the entire postproduction process. The book stresses the aesthetic and creative aspects of film work after shooting is complete, an increasingly important aspect of filmmaking as more primary creation occurs in postproduction than ever before. An extensive glossary of postproduction terminology gives students a resource to recent terminology that is not yet widely understood.
Part I. The Postproduction Process, by Bernie Larami
Chapter 1. Getting Started
Chapter 2. The Post Budget
Chapter 3. Working with Film
Chapter 4. The Nature of Video
Chapter 5. Video Origination and Editing
Chapter 6. The Post Schedule
Chapter 7. Special Visual Effects
Chapter 8. Sound
Chapter 9. Prints, Distribution, and Archives
Part II. Editing, by Michael Brown
Chapter 10. The Editor, the Director, and the Editing Team
Chapter 11. The Work Begins
Chapter 12. The First Assembly and the Director's Cut
Chapter 13. Toward a Locked Cut
Chapter 14. Dubbing, Timing, and Printing
Part III. Movie Music, by Patrick Williams
Chapter 15. The Right Music in the Right Place at the Right Time
Chapter 16. Preparing to Compose
Chapter 17. Composing
Chapter 18. Finishing
Chapter 19. A Career as a Film Composer
Appendix A: A Typical Production Chart of Accounts.
Appendix B: List of Cited Films
A Glossary of Film and Television Terms
List of Illustrations