1st Edition

Contemporary Post-Production Create, Cut, Collaborate, Color, Deliver

By Melanie La Rosa Copyright 2025
257 Pages 20 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

257 Pages 20 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

257 Pages 20 Color & 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Contemporary Post-Production is an engaging and insightful guide through the often fraught and stressful phase of post-production. It brings the art and craft of editing to life, describes contemporary workflows, and demonstrates how to break the post-production process into manageable phases. It also explores editing approaches used by five award-winning filmmakers across fiction films,... Read more

Acknowledgments

 

1. Introduction

2. The Who, What, and Why for this Book

 

Part 1: PRACTICAL SKILLS

3. Create

4. Cut

5. Collaborate

6. Sound

7. Score

8. Color

9. Transcripts, Captions, and Subtitles

10. Exhibit and Deliver

 

Part 2: CREATIVE AESTHETICS

11. Interview: Aashish Kumar – ”Body, Home, World”

12. Interview: Allie Sultan and Ryan Rehnborg – “Incognita’s Infamous Adventures”

13. Interview: Carla Gutíerrez – “FRIDA”

14. Interview: Zeb Achonu – “White Nanny Black Child”

 

Part 3: THE INDUSTRY

15. Looking Back To Look Forward

15a. Alice Guy-Blaché

15b. Oscar Michaeux

16. Emerging Issues in the Edit Room

 

Part 4: APPENDIXES: ACTIVITIES, CHARTS, AND SUPPLEMENTAL MATERIALS

Appendix 1. Story forms

Appendix 2. Ocean University Sample “Introductory Briefing”

Appendix 3. Class activity: Editor and Story Choices 

Appendix 4. Class Activity: Create and Edit a Story

Appendix 5. Daily Logs and Naming Conventions

Appendix 6. Post-Production Workflow Guide

Appendix 7. Post-Production Guide by Form

Appendix 8. What Are We Going to Do About AI? Use It? Fear It?

 

ADDITIONAL SECTIONS:

i.   Citations

ii.  Image Credits 

iii. Additional Resources

iv.  Index 

 

Biography

Melanie La Rosa is an award-winning filmmaker, film professor, and advocate for diversity in media. A 2022 Public Voices Fellow on the Climate Crisis with the OpEd Project and Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, her films have screened internationally and broadcast on PBS. Her work has won funding from NYSCA, Queens Council on the Arts, Brooklyn Arts Council, and Solutions Journalism Network. Her films include "How To Power A City," "The Poetry Deal: a Film with Diane DiPrima," and "Sir: Just A Normal Guy." Her articles appear in World War Zero, The Progressive, and Gateway Journalism Review, among other publications.