Movies

Post-production occurs in the making of audio recordings, films/movies, videos and television programmes. It is the general term for all stages of production happening between the actual recording and the complete record, film or video.

Post-production is in fact many different processes grouped under one name. These typically include:

• Editing the picture.
• Editing the soundtrack.
• Writing and recording the soundtrack music.
• Adding visual special effects - mainly computer generated imagery and digital compositing.
• Adding audio sound effects - like ADR, Foley, sound design and sound designers' actions.
• Color grading, and neg cutting the final master copy from which release prints will be made (although this may be made obsolete soon by digital cinema technologies).

Typically, the post-production phase of creating a film takes longer than the actual shooting of the film, and can take several months to complete.

Other film production stages include (very broadly) - financing, pre-production, writing the screenplay, rewriting the screenplay (repeat), and the actual shooting.

Major post-production companies include

Ascent Media
BUF company
Cinesite
Digital Domain
EFilm
Framestore CFC
Industrial Light and Magic and Skywalker Sound
LaserPacific - A KODAK Company
The Mill
Weta Digital

Reference

• Paul Read. A Short History of Cinema Film Post-Production (1896 - 2006). In: Joachim Polzer (editor). Zur Geschichte des Filmkopierwerks. (On Film Lab History). Weltwunder der Kinematographie. Beiträge zu einer Kulturgeschichte der Filmtechnik. Volume 8.2006. April 2006. 336 pages. (available through amazon.de) -- ISBN 3-934535-26-7

External links

• UK Post - Trade association representing the UK's post-production industry
• Post Magazine - Post-production industry news and white papers