Post-production, what is it? How does it work?
Post-production is the stage in which a project becomes polished.
Post-production can be composed of video, audio and graphics editing. An example
of post-production is color correction.
For “Butterbird Christmas,” we had to call on the audio
skill set of Jessica Renslow. Jessie (as she’s usually referred to) has been
working in Hollywood for eight years primarily in the world of ADR, also known
as dubbing, mixing, or re-recording. What is ADR? It’s a sound term usually
associated when dialogue from one language is replaced by another. Usually
radio plays are performed with an ensemble of actors in unison. Each actor gets
his/her own microphone and it is done in a slick studio, but our budget just
didn’t allow this. So, we worked with what we had.
We recorded everyone individually. Then Jessie went in and
sorted them together like a giant jigsaw puzzle! Next she created sound
effects. This is called foley. She also used some royalty free ones from
archive.org, which is a GREAT resource, especially for any production working
on a tight budget. Finally she laid in music also harvested from open access
sites. The next step will be to mix the project. Good news is the rough cut is
done!
