Post production post

Post production: Editing, sound and sound editing, music, visual effects, voice overs (or AVR which stands for Additional Voice Replacement).
These were much of what we worked on in April and May.
Hundreds of hours. Now I see how the film industy employs so many people.
Check out the credits on many films and you'll see a long list due to so many people employed in post production.
We couldn't have afforded to pay for all the post production we did on our own. There are a lot of student filmmakers who don't get around to learning the programs involved in post production. It ususally ends up being a bigger-budget item.
Films are indebted to a lot of software these days, including things as simple as color correction and editing, to things more complex, such as visual effects, which we experiemented a lot with.
It was our first feature and hard to judge the time it would take to tweak the earlier rough cut we sent in to the Pacific Edge Film Festival. When they notified us that it was accepted, we got to the point where we were working around the clock without sleep to come up with a suitable cut.
We had a good premiere screening, but we are using the time since to tweak it further prior to submission to other festivals.
Thanks to everyone who came through for us during those deadline-crunching days.