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It’s Monday again, and that means another post. This week, we’re finishing up with Post. Up until now, we’ve talked about editing and special effects and such. So even though we’ve covered Post, there’s one thing we haven’t covered: The follow through. What happens now that your movie is all finished and you’ve exported it to that format we talked about last week? Well, that’s that we’re going to talk about.
Obviously, you have a final format. It’s sitting on your computer desktop as we speak, staring at you. What do you do? One thing I’ve noticed is that a lot of actors ask for a DVD copy. That should be a priority for sure. Everybody should get a copy. Unless of course you aren’t proud of the product, which is entirely possible. But still, it is courteous to give a copy to everyone who was involved.
You may also be thinking about sending it out to festivals. Well, we’ll be talking about that next time. But you might want to start doing research for it or considering it. After all, that’s how you get noticed, but again, we’ll start talking about that next time.
Posting to social media is another good step. Putting your video up on YouTube or Vimeo for the world to see. The trick with that is getting through all the cat videos and stupid stunts on YouTube. Vimeo’s a bit better about that. The downside to this goes hand in hand with the previous thought. Some (read: most) festivals only accept submissions that haven’t been posted online. So again, we’ll talk about this more next time, but keep it in mind.
Finally, you might want to get to the next project. That’s okay! Really! Let’s be honest, it looks impressive on your resume if it looks like you’ve worked on two or three projects a year. In all fairness, you don’t need to. A project a year is just as good. But hey, if you can handle two or three a year, by all means! And on that note, once you get a few projects under your belt, you may want to look into getting a job on a professional set if you can. I know from experience that pro sets are going to be those “Oh, you need experience to get experience.”
That’s all for Postproduction! Next week, we’ll introduce the follow through stage of the process. This involves sending out to festivals, events, etc. Wednesday we’re going to talk about a favorite part of the filmmaking process: the wrap party! So stay tuned!