Film Production...

Lyrebird Media offers a comprehensive one-stop multimedia service, including full high definition film and sound recording for theatrical stage productions, concerts, lectures, and music videos, customized video interviews and digitizing historical photo archives and all forms of documentation.

While our studio is located in Melbourne, Australia, we work internationally, outputting broadcast quality audio/video, using Final Cut Pro HD, Photoshop, DVD Studio Pro, Pro Tools and a host of other applications to create content for DVD, web, portable devices, social media, cinema, and commercial television broadcast.

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The Five Stages of Filmmaking

Development: The script is written and drafted into a workable blueprint for a film.
The basis for a script can be an interview, lecture, screenplay, or a Powerpoint presentation.

Pre-production: Preparations are made for the shoot, in which cast and crew are hired, locations are selected, and the sets are created.

Production: The raw elements for the finished film are recorded.

Post-production: The film is edited, sound effects, music and any computer effects are added, and the film is completed.

The post-production process includes audio recording, film editing, adding photography, digital art, and credits. It is the general term for all stages of production occurring after the actual filming and recording, ending with the completed work.

  • Video Editing in Final Cut Pro HD

  • Audio Recording, Editing & Mixing (ProTools)

  • Voice Over

  • Sound Design & Music Composition

  • Adding visual special effects - mainly computer generated imagery (CGI)
    and digital compositing or optical effects.

  • Adding audio sound effects - e.g. Foley and sound design.

  • Adding credits

  • Encoding (HD 1080i, MPEG 2/4, Dolby, QuickTime)

  • DVD Authoring & Design (DVD Studio Pro)

Distribution: The film is picked up by a distributor or broadcast online.

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"I think you can learn a lot from books, but you can't learn it [filmmaking] unless you know what it really means practically. So you gotta combine making films, watching films, listening to other filmmakers, and reading about films, for it to all make sense in a way that's really gonna teach you how to do it. And editing films is a key thing you have to know about. You've got to figure that stuff out if you're really gonna be fully-formed, and be able to make a movie where you don't need a lot of support." ~ Wes Anderson, Writer-director