7.3 SOFTWARE SCREEN SOFTWARE Different operations can be performed during or after shooting a video or film and different software is used, depending on the objective to achieve. Video and film editing After a video or a film is shot, it still needs improving. Editing software allows you to: choose the best takes ; 1 create a flow; modify style, mood or rhythm; create the perspective to influence the audience and a message or a point of view; convey add effects, sound, music, and graphics to attract the audience and obtain a “wow” response. MORE Takes are a variety of shots (from different perspectives or having slightly different details) that give you different possibilities to choose from when you edit. 1 Sound editing After the shooting, it is possible to: have an (ADR), or , which consists in re-recording the dialogues by the original or another actor because of poor audio quality or post-production necessary change in the dialogues. It can also be done to provide voices for computer generated imagery or animated cartoons; automated dialogue replacement looping add , or , that is replacing the actors' voices speaking in their own language with others speaking a different language, trying to respect the lip-sync . Dubbing mixers balance all the tracks prepared by sound editors (dialogues, ADR, effects, Foley , music) and record the final soundtrack. dubbing revocating 1 2 DO What is lip sync? 1 MORE Foley refers to everyday sound effects added to films and videos in postproduction. The name derives from Jack Foley, a sound-effect artist. 2 Motion Capture Motion Capture (mo-cap or mocap) is a digital process used in filming that consists in recording the movements of actors to reproduce them for animation or visual effects. It is called if the movements of the whole body, the face and its expressions are recorded. performance capture Visual effects Visual effects range from building virtual sets that let a director walk around using a Virtual Reality headset, to creating furnished indoors or a fake environment. This fake environment will be used as the background of an actor who is, instead, only filmed against a green screen. 2 fake DO The first movie special effect was the so-called stop trick, created in 1895 by director Alfred Clark in his short film . Look it up! 2 The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots