Post-Production Journal

To keep track on progress, and as a way to reflect on the post-production workflow, I maintain a post-production journal. For long-term projects which are dense with material, I find that keeping a digital cloud-based journal, as opposed to my usually preferred hardcopy, to be a useful tool. Not for all projects, but for this one, it helped a lot. Allowing the journal to exist and sync across my devices means that I can look through it pretty much anywhere and at anytime, and think through the edit when away from the physical edit suite. During the phase of post-production and when getting into the edit, I view this phase of the process as the most creative. I never actually view post-production as purely technical, for me, it is an art form which requires a fluidity in the shaping of the work. Of course it is a technical process that relies on experience with the software and trusting your gut instincts as the work unfolds, and forms of narrative develop visually, aesthetically, and conceptually. When all is shot, assembled, and filed off in the hard drive after a production, the work is only just beginning as it comes together as an edit(s), where narrative is tested and constructed in the space of the timeline. That app I am using here is called Notability. I was drawn to its minimal interface and functionality. When away from the edit suite, I am able to make notes, draw onto, and edit the document on my phone or iPad. I always prefer the analog and manual method, but every now and then, some of these things come in handy.

Page sample from Studio JB Post-Production Journal