Post-production

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Post-production

Post-production occurs in the making of motion pictures

Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
, television programs

Television program

A television program , television programme , or television show is something that people watch on television. It may be a one-off broadcast or, more usually, part of a periodically recurring television series....
, radio programs, video

Video

Video is the technology of electronics Videography, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing Scene in motion....
s, audio recordings

Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical or mechanics inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects....
, photography

Photography

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
and digital art

Digital art

Digital art most commonly refers to art created on a computer in digital form. In an expanded sense, "digital art" is a term applied to contemporary art that uses the methods of mass production or digital media....
. It is the general term for all stages of production occurring after the actual end of shooting and/or recording the completed work.

Post-production is, in fact, many different processes grouped under one name. These typically include:

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Post-production occurs in the making of motion pictures

Film

Television program

Video

Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical or mechanics inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects....
, photography

Photography

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an ....
and digital art

Digital art

Editing
Film editing

Film editing is the process of selecting and joining together Shot , connecting the resulting Sequence , and ultimately creating a finished motion picture....
the picture / television program
Editing the soundtrack
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
.
Writing and recording the soundtrack music
Soundtrack

The term soundtrack refers to three related concepts: recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film or TV show; and the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded so...
.
Adding visual special effect
Special effect

The illusions used in the film, television, theater, or entertainment industries to simulate the imagined events in a story are traditionally called special effects ....
s - mainly computer-generated imagery
Computer-generated imagery

Computer-generated imagery is the application of the field of computer graphics or, more specifically, 3D computer graphics to special effects in films, television programs, Television commercials, simulators and simulation generally, and printed media....
(CGI) and digital copy from which release print
Release print

A release print is the reel of film that is sent to a movie theater for exhibition. Historically, they are copies of the dupe negative, more commonly known today as the Internegative, which in turn is a copy of a physically cut-together reel of filmstrips....
s will be made (although this may be made obsolete by digital-cinema
Digital cinema

Digital cinema refers to the use of digital technology to distribution and Video projector motion pictures. A movie can be distributed via hard drives, optical disks or satellite and projected using a digital projector instead of a conventional movie projector....
technologies).
Transfer of film to Video
Video

Video is the technology of electronics Videography, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing Scene in motion....
or Data
DPX

Digital Picture Exchange is a common file format for digital intermediate and visual effects work and is an American National Standards Institute/SMPTE standard ....
with a telecine
Telecine

Telecine is the process of transferring film film into video form. The term is also used to refer to the equipment used in the process.Telecine enables a motion picture, captured originally on film, to be viewed with standard video equipment, such as televisions, VCR or computers....
and Color grading
Color grading

Color grading is the process of altering and enhancing the color of a film or television image, either electronically, photo-chemically or digitally....
.

Typically, the post-production phase of creating a film takes longer than the actual shooting of the film, and can take several months to complete.

Other film-production stages include (very broadly) - writing the screenplay

Screenwriting

Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing Screenplay for film, television or video games.Writing for film is potentially one of the most high-profile and best-paying careers available to a writer and, as such, is also perhaps the most sought after....
, script development (rewriting), financing, pre-production

Pre-production

Pre-production is the process of preparing all the elements involved in a film, Play , or other performance....
, production

Filmmaking

Filmmaking is the process of making a film, from an initial story idea or commission through scriptwriting, shooting, editing and finally distribution to an audience....
and film distribution / marketing

Film distributor

A film distributor is an independent company, a subsidiary company or occasionally an individual, which acts as the final agent between a production company or some intermediary agent, and a film exhibitor, to the end of securing placement of the producer's film on the exhibitor's screen....
.

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