Jamaa Fanaka (born Walter Gordon ; September 6, 1942 – April 1, 2012) was an American filmmaker . He is best known for his 1979 film, Penitentiary , and was one of the leading directors of the L.A. Rebellion film movement.
14-618: Walter Gordon may refer to: Jamaa Fanaka (Walter Gordon, 1942–2012), African-American filmmaker Walter A. Gordon (1894–1976), African-American political figure and American football player for University of California, Berkeley Walter Henry Gordon (1863–1924), American World War I general Walter L. Gordon (1906–1987), Canadian politician and cabinet minister Walter L. Gordon Jr. (1908-2012), American attorney Walter Gordon (veteran) (1920–1997), American World War II veteran Walter Gordon (physicist) (1893–1939), physicist active in
28-423: A non-linear editing (NLE) system. The advantage of non-linear editing is the ability to edit scenes out of order, thereby making creative changes at will. This flexibility facilitates carefully shaping the film in a thoughtful, meaningful way for emotional effect. Once the production team is satisfied with the picture editing, the editing is said to be locked . At this point the turnover process begins, in which
42-408: A certain range of image editing operations to the raw image format provided by a photographer or an image bank. There is a range of proprietary and free and open-source software, running on a range of operating systems available to do this work. The first of post-production usually requires loading the raw images into the post-production software. If there is more than one image, and they belong to
56-632: A heroin addict. The film stars Fanaka (credited as Walt Gordon) in the title role. It is the only narrative short he ever made. Jan-Christopher Horak of the UCLA Film Archives , when comparing the movie with the 1972 blaxploitation film, Super Fly , released the same year, observed, "unlike Priest's elegant cocaine consumption in Super Fly , Willie's arm gushes blood as he injects heroin." Later, he changed his name to Jamaa Fanaka. Ntongela Masilela states that while "a fundamental tenet of
70-501: A set, ideally post-producers try to equalize the images before loading them. After that, if necessary, the next step would be to cut the objects in the images with the Pen Tool for a perfect and clean cut. The next stage would be cleaning the image using tools such as the healing tool, clone tool, and patch tool. The next stages depend on what the client ordered. If it is a photo montage, the post-producers would usually start assembling
84-440: Is associated with a cold atmosphere. The choice of music and sound increases the effect of the scenes shown to the audience. In television, the phases of post-production include: editing, video editing, color correction, assembly, sound editing, re-recording, animation and visual effects insertions, combining separately edited audio and video tracks back together and delivery for broadcast. Professional post-producers usually apply
98-583: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Jamaa Fanaka Fanaka was born Walter Gordon to Robert L. and Beatrice Gordon in Jackson, Mississippi . In 1971, Fanaka was accepted into the film school at UCLA . His first film, A Day in the Life of Willie Faust, or Death on the Installment Plan , was a morality tale shot in 8mm film about
112-635: The Los Angeles school was an opposition to Hollywood ," Fanaka was a notable exception. He describes Fanaka as "very much fascinated by Hollywood and averse to the contentious ideological and artistic discussions that were fundamental to the formation of the school." During film school, Fanaka wrote, produced and directed Emma Mae (1974). The film focuses on a young woman who arrives in Los Angeles from Mississippi to live with her mother's sister and her family after her mother dies, and survives
126-422: The culture shock that accompanies the move; Welcome Home Brother Charles (1975), about the ravages and dire consequences of racism; and Penitentiary (1979), the story of a young man wrongly sent to prison, who, through his boxing talents, is able to win his freedom. Fanaka completed Street Wars in 1992. He was in extended production and post-production on Hip Hop Hope , a documentary feature film on
140-457: The 1920s [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Walter_Gordon&oldid=1038996216 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
154-411: The complete editing, color correction, and the addition of music and sound. The process of editing a movie is also seen as the second directing, because through post-production it is possible to change the intention of the movie. Furthermore, through the use of color grading tools and the addition of music and sound, the atmosphere of the movie can be heavily influenced. For instance, a blue-tinted movie
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#1732787471569168-502: The different images into the final document, and start to integrate the images with the background. In advertising, it usually requires assembling several images together in a photo composition. Types of work usually done: Techniques used in music post-production include comping (short for compositing, or compiling the best portions of multiple takes into a single composite take), timing and pitch correction (perhaps through beat quantization ), and adding effects . This process
182-450: The picture is prepared for lab and color finishing, and the sound is spotted and turned over to the composer and sound designers for sound design, composing, and sound mixing. Post-production consists of many different processes grouped under one name. These typically include: The post-production phase of creating a film usually takes longer than the actual shooting of the film. It can take several months to complete, because it includes
196-493: The underground Hip Hop culture . Post-production Post-production is part of the process of filmmaking , video production , audio production , and photography . Post-production includes all stages of production occurring after principal photography or recording individual program segments. The traditional first part of the post-production process, non-linear (analog) film editing, has mostly been replaced by digital or video editing software , which operates as
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