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The article delves into the detailed adjustments made to sound and picture quality during the post-production process in television and film.
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- Post-production in the television and movie industry involves various processes and adjustments to improve the sound and picture quality.
- Despite the extensive work put into post-production, the final product is often viewed on devices with limited capabilities and distractions in the background.
- Post-production teams go to great lengths to fix imperfections such as boom shadows or mismatched shots, even though these details often go unnoticed by viewers.
- During the editing stage, choices must be made between improving the pace, selecting the best take, and maintaining continuity, with the latter often being sacrificed.
- Continuity is not considered a crucial factor in post-production, as minor inconsistencies like a coffee cup appearing in the wrong hand are often overlooked.
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The article explores the post-production process in television and film, emphasizing the meticulous adjustments made to sound and picture quality.
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The article discusses the extensive post-production process in the television and film industry. It highlights the various adjustments made to the sound and picture quality, emphasizing the amount of work put into perfecting the final product. However, it also acknowledges that despite all the
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Jul 26, 2023
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This is Rob Long with Martini Shot for The Ankler.
If you look at the production schedule of any television series or movie, youll notice an awful lot of stuff that comes under the heading of post-production.
There are color corrections, transfers, dirt fixes, mastering, onlining, sound mixes, all sorts of little adjustments to the sound and the picture for a weekly TV show, its sometimes an additional weeks worth of fiddling so many processes, so much hard work, that its hard to remember that in the end, the thing youve touched up and fussed over is just going to be blasted through the internet sometimes spending some time out of the pipes and sailing through the air, into and out of space itself and then watched on an old TV or, worse, a phone, with a half-inch speaker and with a lot of other stuff happening all around it, in a living room with people talking and also on TikTok and kids arguing about whether theyve done their homework and noisy, distracting life drowning out the carefully mixed sound cues and the delicately reframed master shot.
And God forbid someone in the post-production phase notices a boom shadow, that momentary dark line that appears on a face or the back of a set when the boom mic repositions briefly in front of a light.
Well get out the electronic paintbox and work the shadow frame by frame until its barely noticeable on the screen, and certainly not noticeable by anyone else.
Ive been in edits where the only way to get the right mix of performance, tempo and meaning is to use a shot that doesnt match maybe the fork is in the wrong hand, maybe theres a missing person, maybe theres a big fat lingering boom shadow on the side of the frame, and well try everything well flip the shot, well blow up the frame, well fuzz out the detail, well try everything and then, eventually, give up. And someone will say, Okay, enough. Ill pay you $1,000 for every letter we get, and well all have to admit that no one no one really notices these things.
At a certain point during post-production, when whatever you're working on is in the editing stage, you have to choose between making an edit that helps the pace, uses the best take, removes an element you no longer need any number of useful and necessary things and one that doesn't show the coffee cup suddenly appearing in the star's other hand.
This is called continuity, and the rule is, Continuity doesn't matter.
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