More often than not, post production is an exercise of accomplishing as much as possible in the allotted time. The truth is that every creative endeavor, even network television, will never be finished, only abandoned. It requires exploration and false starts. Perhaps you’ve seen this inspirational meme around:Ĭreativity doesn’t happen in a strict linear fashion. Second, more importantly, the creative process is messy by its nature. Without critical dependencies, a Post Supervisor can go mad trying to track all of the editor’s activities each day. An Editor can work on a scene in Act 3, then score Act 2, and finish the day assembling a transitional montage. But editing is different for two reasons.įirstly, the order of activities is usually not important. This is how a general contractor and mechanic does it.
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How Changing a Car’s Oil is Different from EditingĪt this point it might be logical to think that the answer is breaking down offline editorial into more distinct activities the “cut scene 3, cut transitional segment between scene 1 & 2” from above. Even if you breakdown your activities into something more ganular, like acts, you still won’t have the information you need for a diagnosis. But you won’t have the information you need to troubleshoot the cause. If you only see the macro picture, you can know that a cut is late. This difference of perspective isn’t a problem, until you have to understand and explain why a cut is late. Even something like “cut act one” is broken down into much smaller activities: cut scene 1, cut scene 2, cut scene 3, cut transitional segment between scene 1 & 2, cut transitional segment between scenes 2 & 3, cut bump out, etc etc etc… If you are a Post Supervisor you probably see your schedule this way.Īn editor sees something entirely different. One way of looking at the post schedule is macro: “The team has six weeks from start to rough cut.” Therefore, you’d see this component of offline editorial as one distinct activity.
The Post Supervisor faces a similar dilemma
As a homeowner you hire a GC so you don’t have to worry about “the details,” but knowing the details will help you understand the cause of delays when they eventually crop up. But your General Contractor sees hundreds of smaller activities that need to be planned in coordination with each other. As a homeowner you might see macro activities like: renovate bathroom, rennovate kitchen. There are some flaws with Car Oil example, but you can also think about something like renovating a house.
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But from your mechanic’s point-of-view Change Car’s Oil is a series of small activities that require unique resources and multiple stopping points. For example: Change Car’s Oil might be an activity to you drop car off at the mechanic and pick it up 30 minutes later. This is tricky, because your activity is someone else’s project. Examples of activities are design report and conduct survey. Activities take time and consume resources you describe them by using action verbs. And meditate deeply on how we think about editing as an activity in the project management scene of the word.Īn activity is a component of work performed during the course of a project. In this post I will zoom in on one specific part of the editorial process: offline editing. In part 1 of this series I describe the process of using a Gantt chart as project management tool for unscripted television post production.
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