Evaluation of technological improvements at post-production area in cinema sector

Numbers of the technological developments are increasing inevitably as time passes by. Society?s needs create new ideas to be invented and as a result earlier inventions are developed and combined to introduce these new technologies. In other words every new invention is an upgrade of earlier one theoretically. This situation also affects communication technologies and models simultaneously. Level of interactivity occasioned by developed communication systems increases simultaneously based on technological improvements. Today internet has taken the first place over other communication systems yet cinema as a branch of communication systems, maintained its position because it also has became an important product of popular culture.As a commercial entity, film production can be divided into processes as pre-production, production and post-production. Technological İmprovements resulted changes to take place on all these processes of movie production but most effective changes took place at post-production processes since computer technology turned out to be a strong character on editing process.This thesis researches the nature of interaction between technology and its development, evaluates technological improvements at post-production area in a historical approach with examples.At the final part of this thesis, negative and positive effects of technology at post-production area in cinema sector are analysed according to the answers of professionals to the questions based on this research. Only users, who have at least once used traditional systems, accept that they can be useful in some cases. Generally, contemporary systems are preffered and it can be said technological improvements are advantageous for post-production sector.