Post Production

In this phase of the filmmaking process the post-production (aka post) team transforms the footage and audio into a cohesive story. Editing is more than just what happens with the media and technology. Here, through introductory and more in-depth study we share tools for (re)constructing story and all of the audio & video elements that come together to make a complete film.  Though we do not teach software in our online content we share the processes and examples of decisions that give editors voice and allow editing and all the elements of post run smoothly.

bf* Editing Approaches

In this Black Feminist Film School Post-Production: Introduction participants will explore editing traditions, non-linear storytelling, the process of storytelling through editing and the post-production workflow. Participants will walk away with an awareness and tools to tell character, space/location and/or conflict driven stories through editing.

Post-Production: Continuity

Continuity participants will explore the fundamentals of Continuity editing by looking at continuity in bf* films and creating continuity ourselves. Our choices can support our audience to be stable or unstable in relationship to time and place in our (re)telling, creating linear and non-linear possibilities through our post-production process.

Workflow &
The Rough Edit

Rough Edit participants will learn processes for moving from the footage they have (dailies, string outs, archives,  etc.) to a rough edit maintaining continuity but with an eye toward the structural, spatial and temporal goals of the overall film. Participants will walk away with a clear processes to create a rough edit and take the next step after toward the final edit.