DIGI175 Notes 8/26

Post Production Workflow

• Acquire (gathering the material...filming)
• Organize
• Review and Select
• Assemble
• Rough Cut
• Final Cut (add sound sweetening, etc)
• Producer/Client Approval (view the story for final approval to air)
• Delivery/ Distribution

Non-Linear Editing...you can mix up your shot at anytime
Linear Editing...you have to edit chronologically

Acquire the footage- gather together all the sources you will use to complete the edit

• video footage, skills audio etc.
• import, capture or "digitize" all the materials on a storage drive

Organize

• Labeling, grouping and sorting all the sources you have
• "tame the chaos into order and craft the order into a video story"

Review and Select

• Watch and listen to all of the footage
• note the best elements for the program/story (if you can't find it, it's as though it doesn't exist...so label and organize!)

Assemble

Rough Cut

• Tweak the assembled edit until you create a flow
• Trim away the "fat"
• ask "does this tell the best story"?

Final Cut

• in this version, the pacing is tight

sometimes you can get too close to a project and lose your objectivity

review points

• there are basic and widely accepted rules of visual grammar that govern the edit process
• the grammar of the edit has evolved over 100 years of filmmaking, but the basics have remained largely unchanged
• many factors are involved in how a video project is edited and the editor does not always hav control over many of these factors

cut, dissolve, wipe, fade--*** four basic transition ***

Review Points
there are specific rules of visual grammar that govern the process
the grammar of the edit has evolved over 100 years of filmmaking
many factors involve in video editing and the editor doesn't always have control over all the factors.