Post Production essay

For my AS preliminary task, I used Adobe Indesign and Adobe Photoshop. This is because these two programs would be extremely important throughout the media course, not only in AS, but for A2 as well. We would be using these programs all the time in media. For this task, I only created a magazine by following conventions of exiting magazines almost too much. It was too similar, and didn't have any creativity. During this time, I learned the basic things on both Indesign and Photoshop, such as how to crop on both programs, and how to place a background behind an image on Photoshop.

For my A2 horror trailer, I was introduced to a new program which I had not used for AS, and which I had no prior knowledge of, Final Cut Pro. I learned how to use it and how to edit clips together in order for everything to run smoothly. However, some of my knowledge learned from AS was brought along with me for A2 as well. Things such as the colour scheme being important was further understood in A2 as I now knew that it was vital because it gives the product or company an image, and by using the same colours for all of their products, people would instantly recognise that it is them because they would be well-known by their colours. Also, there was more post production work required for A2. This included editing different scenes together, putting sounds behind footage, and adding titles to scenes.

In conclusion my understanding of post production skills have helped me create better products as I now have knowledge of filmmaking, and I have started to film scenes for A2 instead of just taking still images for my magazines in AS. I can use Final Cut Pro for this, as well as Adobe Indesign and Adobe Photoshop, which were the only programs that I used for AS.