A note from the exam board about what is Post Production

Post production is a more ambiguous term for some media areas and thus examiners will credit candidates’ ability to demonstrate their understanding of the term in relation to their own work through whichever approach the centre encourages.

For example, a centre may treat all manipulation of copy and images as post production in print. For film a centre may consider post production to include editing, sound and effects. The definitions of the term are at the discretion of candidates / centres, but candidates are encouraged to explain their use of the term in their answers in the examination to aid the examiner.

Post Essay Plan

What is Post Production

Post-production
You should discuss some of the Photoshop effects that you used to manipulate photographs here but this topic really requires you to consider your trailer project.
You would need to discuss:
EDITING – techniques used; style; pace; transitions and how the editing helped communicate meaning to the audience.
SOUNDTRACK & SOUND EFFECTS – the choices made and the impact of these choices on audiences.
SPECIAL EFFECTS – discuss any special effects (fast-motion, slow-motion etc.) and any effects you used to distort/edit images. Again, the emphasis should be on the way these effects impact on audiences and communicate meaning.

An Essay Plan
My AS brief was to…..
As part of this I had to develop post-production skills using Adobe Photoshop to…..
I used a variety of tools including …………………to …………………….In particular I used…………… to…………… While I was generally satisfied with my final productions, I was a little disappointed with / because……..
In My A2 year, I was able to make considerable progress and build on some of my own perceived post-production weaknesses. I demonstrated new skills in my ability to use Photoshop to…..
My post-production skills were also developed beyond Photoshop in my A2 year. I made extensive use of Adobe Premiere Elements to …… The key skills that I developed included…., and I became particularly accomplished at. One of my most successful uses of the technology was in……As well as editing the video footage, I did a considerable amount of work recording and editing sound (give details) in Audacity. I imported this work into my project to add soundtrack music and sound effects.

Post Production Link  - This is a link to another teachers blog and has very detailed advice about post production

Creativity Questions

1. What do you understand by ‘creativity’ and to what extent have you been creative?
2. How have you tried to facilitate and encourage your own creativity?
3. Did you experience limits/blocks on your own creativity?
4. How easy/difficult was it to be creative while still working to the brief?
5. Did working within conventions stifle your creativity?
6. To what extent did you need to work with others and ‘bounce ideas’ off other people to be truly creative?
7. How much of your creativity was about trying to picture things in your mind’s eye?
8. How much of your creativity was about trial and error?
9. To what extent was a lack of confidence an issue in terms of your creativity?
10. To what extent was a lack of technical competence/confidence an obstacle to your creativity?

Csikszentmihalyi

Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi pronounced  CHEEK-sent-me-hi-ee  is a Hungarian psychology professor, who emigrated to the United States. He is noted for his work in the study of happiness and creativity. Csikszentmihalyi says the creative process normally takes five steps (Creativity, 1996, p.79):

1. Preparation - becoming immersed in problematic issues that are interesting and arouses curiosity.
2. Incubation - ideas churn around below the threshold of consciousness.
3. Insight - the "Aha!" moment when the puzzle starts to fall together.
4. Evaluation - deciding if the insight is valuable and worth pursuing.
5. Elaboration - translating the insight into its final work.

Spontaneity takes practice Csikszentmihalyi says that it typically takes someone 10 years of acquiring technical knowledge by immersing themselves in a discipline before they create anything significant.

Creativity Quotes

Creativity involves thinking or behaving imaginatively . The imaginative activity is purposeful – set against or defined by a meaningful objective. The processes must generate something original. Paul
Roberts (2006)
                                         

David Gauntlett has written extensively about creativity and the idea is that “making is connecting”. His main argument is that “through making things, and sharing them with others, we feel a greater connection with the world, and more engaged with being more active in the environment rather than sitting back and watching.” (2003)

Malcolm Gladwell makes a similar argument in his new book, Outliers – according to Gladwell, the magic number is 10,000 hours of practice.

http://twistedsifter.com/2012/03/15-famous-quotes-on-creativity/ 15 Quotes on Creativity

Creativity

“The making of the new and the rearranging of the old” (Bentley, 1997). An Essay Plan My AS brief was to………… Creativity is …………….. I was able to demonstrate my creativity in a number of ways……. Ways in which I supported my own creativity included…. Obstacles to my creativity included …..working within conventions …..taking risks when marks were at stake …..working in isolation (getting lost in my own ideas) …. lack of technical competence …..lack of confidence I think my ability to be creative really progressed in Year 13. I found that with the second brief…..I was able to….. and…… I found ways of avoiding the obstacles that had undermined my creativity in Year 12 by…..

Essay Plan for question 1a

Ms+g324+q1 from staylorchs

Rather than take three paragraphs to write about one skill I'd suggest a skill per paragraph and write about three or four examples depending on time.