ABSTRACT
From its inception, film practitioners generally created a series of parts during the process of creating a film, including the various shots taken during production where a myriad of specialists, including camera operators, set designers, makeup artists, actors, and lighting personnel, utilize their artistry. The post-production process favors the invisibility of its workers – the effective effacing of labor conducted by specialized workers – whose work was now hidden behind the seamless continuity editing of sound and image. The creation of a film, in fact, requires artistry from many other arts and their practitioners, for instance, set design, lighting, cameras, costuming, makeup, sound recording, writing, and performance. Importantly, the art of post-production becomes the process that shapes all of these other art forms into a film’s final print, thus ultimately determining what the audience sees. During the transition period from silent to sound film, practitioners indeed noted the turmoil, which has been well documented.
