Chapter 9Post-production

 

 

 

 

 

 

You start off with very great ambitions. You want to make ‘Citizen Kane.’ Then when you get in the editing room you realize that you screwed up so irredeemably that you’ll edit the film in any configuration to avoid embarrassment. You put the beginning at the end, you take the middle out, you change things. The editing process becomes the floundering of a drowning man. That’s been it for me from the start of my career.—Woody Allen

At the start of the Getting To Work section I told you that the five stages of production, (Development, Preproduction, Production, Post-Production, and Marketing and Distribution) are not as clearly delineated as their titles suggest. Rather they are more like overlapping processes ...

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