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Post-production, known as "post" for short, is the part of a film's production process that occurs after principal photography is complete. "Post" is where the film is edited into a coherent story, sound effects are added, and (most notably) visual effects are created. "Fix it in post" is a phrase uttered by filmmakers who screw up a shot but don't want to go through the expensive and time-consuming process of shooting it again.note Or can't, because the production is out of time or money (or both), or because they only had one copy of a prop that just got destroyed during the previous take, or because local labour laws mean someone involved is at their limit for the day and can't legally do their job any more. The expectation is that the editor will (hopefully) be able to edit around the error, or remove or obscure it, to make it less apparent to the viewer. With current digital image manipulation techniques, this can actually be done for some things you might think couldn't possibly be fixed in postnote filmmakers can completely erase wires from stunt scenes, digitally de-age actors, swap the face of the on-set stand-in for an animated representation of a long-dead actor - hiding the fact that a performer accidentally looked straight down the lens is trivial by comparison, but the amount of work involved can easily end up having an eye-popping cost in money and time. These are the four worst words to hear on any set — it means the responsibility for repairing the error will be passed onto the editor, and there is a good chance the quality of the finished film will be deteriorated. Not only are the crew members tipped off that something bad is happening, but the editor knows that their job has just gotten exponentially more difficult. It can often lead to the usage of B-Roll footage. If the remark "we'll fix it in post" makes it through post itself, it's a case of Left It In. If the mistake doesn't get fixed until after the theatrical run, see Enhanced on DVD. |
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This is the image caption on TFWiki.net for an animation error from Transformers: Energon that leaves the characters against a black background with a signature. | |
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Exaggerated in JonTron's "Flex Tape 2: The Flexening" video, where the fictional original cut was such a disaster that the crew had to scramble to salvage it, and ended up fixing the entire video in post. | |
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At the end of the Bugs Bunny cartoon "(blooper) Bunny!" after a rehearsal involving a rocket and Yosemite Sam goes awry (and Sam kvetching about it during the credits), Bugs passively says they'll fix it in editing. | |
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Linkara says this in one video review after he attempts to use one of his Running Gags, only to get an entirely different one. | |
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Parodied in Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People episode 4 "Dangeresque 3: The Criminal Projective", when Strong Bad complains about the Cheat forgetting to add a CGI monster over Strong Sad in the movie-within-a-game. | |
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In Norm of the North, a bunch of people try to shoot an ad for tourist homes in the Arctic, but Norm and his lemmings try to stop them by sabotaging their equipment. At one point, the director provides us with this gem of a quote: | |
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In Gus Johnson's "every film student set", the room is empty but Gus says he'll fix it in post and explains that he'll be using this as a catch-all solution for anything that goes wrong. | |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: An occasional joke is the BBC Radio 4 editors removing jokes post-recording, either for being unsuitable for broadcast or just plain terrible. | |
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In Home Movies, Jason once complains that Brendan is always saying this, even though Brendan never actually fixes anything in post. It's likely that Brendan doesn't actually know what this term means and that this is just one of the terms he throws around to sound like a real director. | |
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During a segment in Undertale taking place on television, interacting with a certain object will cause Mettaton to make a pun...that he immediately decides should be cut in post. | |
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In Disgaea 2, recurring foe and fallen TV star Axel once blows off the idea that he'll probably lose to the party again with this line. | |
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The porgs in The Last Jedi are ever-present on Ahch-To because those scenes were filmed on Skellig Michael, an island which is home to protected puffins. Instead of removing the puffins with CGI, they were covered up and turned into memorable (and marketable) comic relief. | |
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Spoofed in the "Wormhole X-Treme" episode of Stargate SG-1. A real alien spaceship comes down to pick up some stranded alien beings in the middle of a Show Within a Show written by another alien, based upon hazy memories of the SGC. While two of the show's production crew (who actually are real production crew on Stargate SG-1) are talking about it, they say that the special effects were a little weak, and that "We'll fix it in post." Then they go to play some golf. | |
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In Planet Terror (one half of the Double Feature Grindhouse), a zombie ruins an otherwise perfect take by grabbing for Rose McGowan too soon, so Robert Rodriguez just fixed it by blowing his head off. | |
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On The Colbert Report, Stephen occasionally jokes that he'll edit out a guest's statements to make himself look better. At least once the show actually makes good on Colbert's promise, though the guest's statements were actually edited for time. | |
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Evidently Marcia Lucas did an absolutely heroic job of this when it came to patching together a usable climax for A New Hope. | |
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The Snowman (2017) had so many issues during production that the director estimated that, at wrap, 10-15% of the script had not been shot at all. In addition, Val Kilmer had recently had surgery for cancer that rendered his voice unrecognisable, meaning his every line needed to be dubbed (and leading to the director trying to shoot around the problem). Attempting to fix the many, many issues that all of this created has resulted in a movie that is - being charitable - just barely coherent, but which features a detective who never seems to detect anything, subplots that go nowhere, characters who just disappear from the story entirely, characters having flashbacks to other people's memories, and an ending so incomplete and jarringly-edited that it feels like it might be a poorly-executed satire of itself. Folding Ideas breaks down the problems in an extensive video here. | |
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This was supposed to happen with Manos: The Hands of Fate, but it never did, thus leaving us with a movie known only because of how awful it is. | |
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Stōked: Finn and Lo try to sabotage Emma by making a fake surfing instruction video where Finn gives bad advice to newbie surfers. During one take, Finn messes up her lines, so Lo says she'll get it in post. It turns out Lo has no idea what "in post" is, and only said that because it sounded cool, giving away their ruse to Emma when she watches the video. | |
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From the RiffTrax of Birdemic: | |
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Played straight near the beginning of Hannah Montana: The Movie, where the director shooting Hannah's music video invokes the trope word for word. | |
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Though the trope isn't actually said, it's obvious Garth Marenghi's Darkplace was heavily edited in post to make the show even make a tiny bit of sense. They do directly refer to a post-production trick at least once, explaining the ludicrous overdose of slow-motion shots; "The episodes were running up to eight minutes under... the only way to stretch them out was with slow motion".note No, Dean; the way to make up eight minutes is to add a B or C-plot, but your writer was lazy enough to turn in a script that was eight pages short and you were incompetent enough to let him get away with it. Because it's funnier that way. | |
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FoxTrot used this in a story arc where Jason and Marcus imagine themselves cast in the roles of Frodo and Sam for the then-upcoming The Lord of the Rings films. They react with awe to the armies of orcs and the balrog, then react with horror to Lady Galadriel. Director Peter Jackson facepalms at this, and the assistant director assures him that the editors can swap those reactions in post-production. | |
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Examined and accidentally invoked in Screenwipe, in this sequence detailing the difficulties of producing even a relatively simple shot (the presenter, Charlie Brooker, falling off a log). The script called for the production crew to deliberately leave the boom mic in shot in order for Brooker to point out the kind of thing that accidentally happens on a shoot, but they ended up forgetting to do so and had to resort to shooting a separate boom mic against a white screen and adding it into the shot. Charlie Brooker lampshades the absurdity of having to un-fix a perfectly fine shot in post in order to demonstrate the kind of mistake that needs fixing in post, and calls the whole thing a "pain in the arse". | |
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An archvillain in City of Heroes decides that he is not happy with a take of him taunting the heroes coming after him during a task force and asks to invoke this trope. He is then informed that he had already requested that the message be delivered live. | |
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