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"Postproduction 101"

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  • Type: Video Tutorial
  • Length: 58:58
  • Media: Video/mp4
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  • Access Period: 30 Days
  • Download: MP4 (iPod compatible)
  • Size: 231 MB
  • Posted: 11/01/2010

This lesson is part of the following series:

BOE® Career in Entertainment Series (21 lessons, $168.30)
BOE® Content Distribution Series (11 lessons, $63.36)
BOE© Collegiate Courseware Bundle - Winter 2013 (10 lessons, $44.55)

Steve Kochak is vice president of Engineering for Deluxe Digital Media.

Digital high definition cameras and desktop post production technologies make it possible for anyone to create a commercially exploitable and professionally deliverable entertainment product. Or do they? What happens when your movie sits on a combination of hard drives, HD-SRW tape and USB keys?

Steve focuses on real-world case studies and advice on how independent digital producers can better plan their projects for the long marketing tail, beginning with submissions to film festivals and markets like Sundance, Cannes and the American Film Market.

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The Business of Entertainment LLC
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The Business of Entertainment LLC (BOE) is an educational courseware production company focused on the media and entertainment industry. With headquarters near Hollywood in Burbank, California, BOE produces lecture and networking events where media students and independent producers interact with studio executives, post production and production practitioners who conduct the business of show business.

The business of show business is learned on the job because there's no easy access to the execs who run the industry. We believe your career begins NOW, not 10 years from now, so we've designed our courseware to you insights from industry insiders TODAY and ON-DEMAND.

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Excerpt from part 1 of "Digital Postproduction 101":

"There’s a common expression which we’re going to talk about later and that’s called: Don’t worry, we'll fix It In post.

If you’ve ever been on a movie set, if you’ve ever been on a television set... something doesn’t go right. Maybe birds were flying in the background on that shot and the director doesn’t like it and nobody wants to reshoot it, so they’ll say – don’t worry, will fix it in post.

Post production has existed for as long as production. There has probably never been a case where the director yells ‘cut’ and then it goes straight out to the movie theater. It has to be edited. It has to be pulled together. We have to tell the story in a movie. And, in the past, post production was both an art and a science. And, it was very difficult to learn because of the cost of capital infrastructure involved.

Color correction is the process where you make the movie’s colors look just right. Absolutely every movie gets it. When you start shooting a film and the sun sort of goes on its thing and everybody’s shadow changes and all the sudden it’s dusk and your wrapping shooting, but the problem is everything you shot was supposed to occur in 10 minutes, you color correct it. You make it all look like it happened at exactly the same time."

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