Film making, particularly low budget or no budget film making is all about creativity. The absence of anything that might reasonably be referred to as ‘a budget’ forces the film maker to find increasingly inventive solutions to overcome the problems that occur when making a movie with no money.

This inability to simply ‘buy their way round’ a problem can often result in raw and exciting cinema. Robert Rodriguez’s ‘El Mariachi’, with its innovative ‘edit-as-you-shoot’ technique stands out as a particularly strong example.

By necessity, low budget and no budget film production stands or falls on the creativity of the film makers involved.

But creativity alone cannot take a movie from that initial spark of inspiration to something that is ready for public consumption.

Film making is also a matter of logistics, particularly when you’re making a movie with no money. Remember, you can’t buy your way round the many logistical challenges film making throws at you.

This is where movie making softwares come into their own. Computers don’t ‘do creativity’ (not without a great deal of human intervention, at least), but logistics? Computers make light work of even the most convoluted logistical nightmare.

Movie making softwares can help you produce your screenplay in the right format, then break it down into a shooting script. Movie making softwares can assist with that all important storyboarding, so before you even pick up your camera, you’ve got a vivid sense of exactly where you’re going to point it. Movie making softwares can handle all of those brain-aching scheduling issues which, if left unchecked, can bring your no budget film production crashing to its knees. And movie making softwares can turn the laborious process of editing into the genuine pleasure it ought to be.

So, creativity is vital. You won’t be able to bring your no budget film production to an audience without it (and even if you do, it may not be worth watching). However, without discipline and organisation, you’ll never see your movie completed.

Audio post production refers to the process and procedure of soundtrack creation for images that are in motion. For a long time, film making has presented the problem of controlling and improving sound quality. It is this problem that brought about the concept of audio post production. In television and film production today, audio post production plays an important role in enhancing quality.

Audio post production is a procedure that involves a number of stages. Depending on what kind of project you are undertaking, you may use all the stages or some of the stages. Some of the processes include editing of production dialogue, replacement of dialogue that is automated, editing and mixing of Foley editing and composition of music and re-recording.

Some of the terms used in audio post production may sound technical. However, once you get to the nitty gritty of each of them you will realize that they are pretty simple steps. Editing of production dialogue involves making location of all the takes which the Picture Editor used. It also involves making sure that the audio is able to work properly. This is known as sync checking. It is also at this stage that any noise which is extraneous is eliminated so that the mixer of the dialogue can clear dialogue which is then later used in the mix.

Replacement of dialogue that is automated involves streamlining an audio production that had a lot of noise in it and thus could not be used. At this stage, you will be able to record while at the same time you will be able to edit. You are also able to make matches in case there is a problem.

The audio post production begins even before you begin the shooting process. This is done by making selection of the best of the production dialogue mixer. The team in charge of production mix has the responsibility of recording dialogue which is live together with the people in charge of cameras.